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  • Mar 18,2014

    I was posted here by my company 2 years ago. Initially, it was just a job. In my mind, I just wanted to finish what I needed to to do and get out. Well, I'm into my 3rd year, having accepted a position in Chongqing starting tomorrow. Looking back, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Of course, there were times I wanted to pack up and leave. Some of those times were extremely trying but...

  • Mar 16,2014

    You will need an internationally recognized qualification as a start. Then you will have to run the gauntlet of interviews with the immigration departments of whichever country you want to go to, assuming you have all the documents necessary to arrive at the interviewers' desk. In western countries, being fluent in Chinese doesn't mean anything. They've already got thousands upon thousands...

  • Mar 15,2014

    Some expatriates have been here for quite a while now, and have seen the situation change very rapidly.

     

    The country isn't what it was back a few years ago. China used to be a flawed yet promising place where improvement was expected on many levels. A booming economy was hoped to put millions out of misery while opening up to more exchanges and freedom. In a word, China's...

  • Mar 11,2014

    travelling around Europe, i have seen parents chastise their child in public for littering - no physically, just telling the child to pick the discarded rubbish off the ground and put it in a bin.

     

    Solvenia have made it fun for children to get into the habit by making public bins in the shape of animals with large open mouths. 

     

    it's not rocket...

  • Mar 07,2014

    Don't be surprised man, trust me, I'm also in Shenzhen. 70% of training centers and schools won't give you that mandatory health insurance. Only Wallstreet, EF, DK,  Public and University currently offer it and a few no name schools might. This is kind of like the Obama care of China, School don't want this because it cost them and the teacher some money and most teachers want the full...

  • Mar 06,2014

    Here's what they need in order to open accounts in your name (IN THE UNITED STATES, OF ALL PLACES):

     

    1) Passport (counts as 2 forms of ID)

    2) Date of Birth

    3) Name

     

    With just those three tidbits, they can screw you royally. No need for your social security number. Why? They have access to the entire database of social security card...

  • Mar 06,2014

    Hic, I'm not a very good writer >_< I'm not astonished by the ongoing environmental disaster and Chinese society. I mean, no, *I'm astonished*, on a daily basis. But I've been living in China for a couple of years, I have some bits of explanations for the why/how. What astonished me were a combination of things
      * Open, "in-your-face" social critics, humor being just a mere...

  • Mar 05,2014

    History is also written from the POV of the victor. So I wonder who the victor will be. An the political/economic arm wrestle between the US and China, who will come out the other side as the winner and flex their international muscles. 

     

    I think it'll also be known as the period when many foreigners came and then many left as well. Maybe the beginning of the mass...

  • Mar 04,2014

    The problem with having him fired quietly is that he could then go & get a teaching job in another city and still be a risk to children. I'd do what was suggested and then get the school to out him. If they won't do anything then involve the police. Especially as he is now on ex-colleague. 

  • Mar 03,2014

    Victoria, I've never commented on any of your posts before. You know, if you want to ask people on the forum about your personal life, then be prepared to get answers of all kinds, rude, caustic, downright disgusting, nice, supportive, etc. This is a forum and not your personal circle of friends. You may not like them and they may not like you, but you did open yourself to attack. I've read...

  • Mar 03,2014

    You have nothing to fear except fear itself. 

  • Mar 01,2014

    I think you're misrepresenting a lot of people.

     

    I, for example, live in China because I enjoy traveling, have a leisurely lifestyle here, and am attached to my girlfriend. I didn't move here as some kind of statement about the US (especially as I'm from Australia).

     

    Criticising the United States while living in China does not indicate hypocrisy....

  • Feb 28,2014

    @louis In the case of Eastern Europe in the 80's, there is a major difference : the notion of civil society existed, because Eastern European experienced it before the post-WWII communist rule. So in general, people in East Europe were more keen to question thing, being grumpy, and *act*. Prague Spring, for instance. When things like Prague Spring failed, people moved on something else. In the...

  • Feb 27,2014

    It seems ostensibly that the problem has been resolved. However, I don't think this approach will work fundamentally. One must be clear about what are the root causes of near-sightedness. From my perspective, there're four important factors that have caused myopia:

    1. Bad eye using habits.  Reading posture matters most when it comes to the factor. Over-close reading contributes...

  • Feb 26,2014

    i have read stories on this forum of Chinese not turning on the A/C in summer, yet willing to splash out large sums of money on the latest iPhones or the latest designer fashions.

    Bargain hard over a few mao in the market, yet serve enough food to feed an army at a meal, with a lot of it being wasted

    to me that seems like inverse thrift.

    Yes, i spend money to make my life...

  • Feb 25,2014

    In my experience most of them know about this kind of stuff already, they are well aware of Facebook and Youtube. They just don't really care because there is access to local made alternatives that are in some aspects superior.

     

    I find that mentioning controversial topics can go well in a class as long as you don't air your views (if they are opposing to the students) too...

  • Feb 21,2014

    News at 11 : a forum targeting 0.01% of a country's population, read by 0.00001% of the population, triggered an unstoppable revolution. Thanks to their devastative rhetoric skills, the arm-chair guerrillas managed to wake-up a nation of zombies from their jingoist, conservative, greed-fueled <insert here your favorite adjectives> stupor.

    Censor, I know you just wet your pants....

  • Feb 20,2014

    Lol I suppose you are right. I really want to focus on them learning oral English. They can read and write pretty well but what good does that do if they can't speak it or understand it when it is spoken to them? My boss agrees with me as well and is giving me freedom to do what I think is best since the parents would prefer than the students learn oral english as well.

     

    ...

  • Feb 16,2014

    I see two ways to proceed:

     

    1. The Chinese method

     

    Give some vague, noncommittal answers, and ensure that all parties, including yourself, are confused as to what is happening. If he asks whether you are in love with him too, say "yes" (to begin with). This is because a) you don't want to hurt his feelings, and b) it's the opposite of...

  • Feb 15,2014

     

    Oh god.

     

    Let me explain this to you, American.

     

    America isn’t socialist. It isn’t becoming socialist. Instituting a mockery of universal healthcare – which funnels trillions of dollars of tax money into private healthcare companies – is not socialist. Some Americans (not all, but you are definitely one) have this glaring logical disconnect...

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A: I'll give my two cents on the age part. It's not as easy but can defin
A:I'll give my two cents on the age part. It's not as easy but can definitely be done. I was 21, fresh out of university and landed my first teaching job in china as a homeroom kindergarten teacher on a pretty standard 20,000/month salary. I'm 1 year in now and am still happy. Pretty much all international kindergarten jobs on here want 2 years experience, but many will still accept if you have experience in your home country. With that being said, being white and having a nice looking face is much more of a decision factor in china vs the west, if you can- use it to your advantage. Good luck finding something! -- brinsleym