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...everyone is busy, money money money...
Hehe .. are u expecting something not "money related" in China ???
Hmm..
Anyway good luck with this new life 
well maybe new life for just a bit
neudphoto wrote:i was china for about a month- and i must say, the south west is pretty amazing.
did you work there? or go on holiday?
they're pretty serious about the work part in china.
i was working there. and yes, there were certainly high points as well as low points, but everyday was always very extreme- that's what made it really memorable. the work part kinda sucked because the work ethic was pretty brutal. all the money we made was blown immediately the following weeks in bars/traveling/restaurants/izakayas/clubs/gadgets/music/etc...
many of the foreigners you hang out with will be life-long friends because you're all in the same boat. the students can be great as well, but teaching kids is torturous if it's more than one kids class a day- sucks the living daylights out of you.
certainly pays off to learn the language as rapidly as possible. certainly pays off in getting around and enjoying things. 
when i went to china, it was on holiday.
Yangshuo was my favorite place.
@ ytz
how old were your students? (they would be 13-16 if i go to that place...)
and did they give you any guidance when you got there?
was there a book and some kinda program to go by?
was it hard to find another school after finished with the first one?
damn, sorry, I have so many questions 
@ ytz
how old were your students? (they would be 13-16 if i go to that place...)
and did they give you any guidance when you got there?
was there a book and some kinda program to go by?
was it hard to find another school after finished with the first one?
damn, sorry, I have so many questions
not a problem. i have so many answers so i pm'd
thanx a bunch dude!
latest news - I should have a contract this friday and might have to leave before the end of this month 
lol, China here I come...
happy trails
yeah judging by the details, school term will have already started... my guess would be someone did a runner. just a guess tho. 
offer and destination has changed - Ningbo! 
looks more....normal
This Thursday : London - Hong Kong - Hangzhou 1 way
off to Ningbo after orientation.
Damn, am I nervous 
teach them to run away from their problems
Congrats
I went to Hangzhou... there is a great park with a lake and a pagoda tower that is the main tourist attraction probably haha. still it's very beautiful
sounds cool.
I traveled through China for a few months from East to West a couple years back. Somehow I managed to get by without knowing too much of the language. I preferred things the more west I got, away from the densely populated east coast and into the tibetan plateaux and more islamic peoples near the desert areas and on the way to kyrgyzstan.
Theres a book by Paul Theroux called riding the Iron rooster that although written in the 80s still seemed pretty similar to some of my experiences.
My asthma came back which i hadn't had for years, so def some pollution in the air
good luck
ahhh sounds great man
first week of teaching - 21 different classes of 3 ages (each 30-40 kids)...so about 700-800 of them total
im the only foreigner in school so far, waiting on an Irish guy to arrive, then the classes get half smaller!
otherwise it has been a lotta fun and tiring for sure
ona nother note, got a msg from Void, Shanghai and they are interetsed for a gig!!!!
hell yes.
ona nother note, got a msg from Void, Shanghai and they are interetsed for a gig!!!!
hell yes.
Oh good. My regards to Nat and Cam
MANASYt wrote:ona nother note, got a msg from Void, Shanghai and they are interetsed for a gig!!!!
hell yes.Oh good. My regards to Nat and Cam
Whats your name?
Looks like ts gonna be Dec 18!!! 
shit, missed this, you in China then? good luck. lay off the rum when you're around the kids!
shit, missed this, you in China then? good luck. lay off the rum when you're around the kids!
LOL, thanx man. No chance for rum yet
Only foreigner on campus now...Irish dude supposed to arrive soon...I hope, need some support
i would love to see the chinese thought police react to one of your live shows
I'd be executed and my family will get a bill for the bullets used
I'll do one for the school ahahah....
I start to really feel for these kids now...they basically have time for nothing....
They get up at 6.30 and go to bed at 22....studying and doing sports...
On the weekends - homework...
When I ask 'em what music they like, most of them say Michael Jackson
That's like 800 kids I go through a week...
They are very sweet and polite though...and some of them really shy
Nothing like kids in Europe or what I've experienced back home.
name's Radek
do make sure to hang out in Shanhgai a bit. When I was in Suzhou, I only went into Shanghain once in the 3 months, and I kinda regret not going more often. Travelling those 50km is a 10 year time machine
When I ask 'em what music they like, most of them say Michael Jackson
that's cosmopolitan
small town kids i taught had never heard of (probably decadent) beatles... (when i worked in shanghai, everyone was listening to beyonce/jay-z etc)
you figured out what song you're gonna teach em for the singing contest?
Hmm yeh dunno which one
Dunno what to do for next week either...have this coming week off...
Can get to downtown finally
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