Accessing Mandarin and its benefits
Chinese language I have written about Chinese culture before and one of the main proponents of Chinese culture is the language. Based on pictures and drawings, many characters [...]
Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans - The Truth The main thing I remember from training was the 'lesson plan.' Practiced, perfected, painstaking and of prime importance, we had all done our fair share of (pretend) [...]
Becoming a Better Teacher
Becoming a better teacher For a lot of teachers when they come here they have little to no experience and they are either fresh out of university or [...]
Chinese Parents
Parent Pleasing An important thing to consider when teaching kids would be what their parents expect from you. Whilst all parents have different tastes, they all want the best for their child. [...]
Great Wall of China Marathon Run
Interview with Rob Avery about his Great Wall of China marathon. GS:You are living in Ningbo, China at the moment, can you tell us a bit about how you came to be [...]
Single Shanghai
Single Shanghai Due to having a girlfriend, this isn't a subject I have firsthand experience of. But I've heard enough stories, and witnessed enough things, to make me think dating here is [...]
All Worth It
Reflections I am approaching the one year mark of teaching abroad and it really seems like a dream. It feels like it was just yesterday that I came off the plane and [...]
Behind the Superpower
I initially came to China for all the typical clichéd reasons; escaping shameless consumerism, an unwillingness to become paranoid over social status, and in an attempt to embrace an Eastern culture that [...]
Coming to China
Now What? I finished university about a year ago with an honours bachelor degree in political science and English. Unlike many of my classmates, I knew that I was not ready to [...]
One Year In
The Start of an Adventure For many people the lure of this employment and/or lifestyle choice (depending how you look at it) brings you one of the most [...]
