Mixing Leisure with Work I touched down in Fuzhou Airport at roughly 3am and was relieved to have finally made it. It had been a very long trip from Prague, Czech Republic, to my final destination and I felt slightly disorientated. Thankfully one of the Academic Co-ordinators, Tom, had stayed up most of [...]
As tempting as it may be to just throw your laptop, flip flops and Chinese phrase book into a bag and hop on a plane it’s probably wiser to make sure that your proverbial ducks are all lined up and you’ve thought things through before accepting a teaching job in China. Teaching [...]
If I can’t speak Chinese and they can’t speak English, then..... It has one of those statements for me, you know, the ones we classify under “If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one, I'd be...”. The thing is, at one time I was guilty of asking this [...]
