5 Foods You Have to Eat While You’re in China
Whether or not you like the Chinese food you’ve eaten at Happy Garden or Golden Dragon or whatever your go-to takeout place back home is, throw all your preconceptions about Chinese food [...]
Helpful Tips for Teaching the Very Young
Teaching young learners is particularly rewarding and fun, but it can also be a lot of work, especially when you can’t communicate with them in their native tongue. Whether you’re teaching preschool [...]
Where to Travel During Chinese Summer Vacation
Only a few more months until summer vacation! Not that I’m counting or anything … If you teach in Chinese public schools, when the students are on holiday, so are you! [...]
Chinese Students’ Favorite Songs
My first few weeks teaching primary school students, I avoided singing songs in the classroom. Singing at work? It felt like cheating. Eventually, I asked an English teacher who was Chinese [...]
Saving Money Whilst Teaching in China
Whether it’s to help pay off your student debt, fund a fulfilling travel excursion after your contract has finished, contribute towards putting a deposit on a house or to simply have [...]
Tips for Starting a Teaching Job
Starting a new job can be hard no matter what, and even more so when you’re in a foreign country where you might not understand the language or cultural norms. [...]
A Few Things I Learned About Teaching Kindergarten Students
Teaching kindergarten level can be very fun and challenging, the children know no basic English, attentions spans are incredibly short and behaviour can vary. Before I moved to China, [...]
5 Beach Destinations in Southeast China
Honestly, I don’t consider myself a “beach person.” I always migrate toward cities, where I can find quirky restaurants and fun bars. However, China is a huge country full of bustling [...]
The No-Fear Guide to Traveling in China Alone
This New Year’s, I decided to forgo the usual regrettable drunken debauchery that usually accompanies the coming of a new year and to instead go on a cleansing, rejuvenating weekend trip [...]
5 (Chinese) New Year’s Resolutions
I know, I know, January 1st was weeks ago. If you set any New Year’s resolutions for 2018, you might have already forgotten them by now. Did you know that 80% [...]
