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Scorpions, And Snakes, And Spiders! Oh, My!
Have you ever eaten a scorpion? How about grasshopper? Snake? Tarantula? I thought not, and if you’d asked our very brave interns yesterday morning, I’m sure they would have turned green at the thought. Not now, though, because last night saw our trip to Wangfujing and the famous ‘snack’ street. Grasshopper and scorpion are just […]
MoreCats & Dogs For Dinner
From feeling so far away to feeling at home. One interns story from beginning to end. I’m 20 years old and graduated from high school in summer 2009. After 13 years of school I didn’t want to go to university straight away. I looked for something different, an adventure. I decided on trying interning as […]
MoreHow To Begin A Career After Teach & Travel China
There are many options and a lot of help out there for those planning to start a teaching career. Being a part of the Teach and Travel China program gives one a leg up on pursuing teaching. Different paths will be taken after the completion of the program, therefore, different advice can be given to […]
MoreContracts In China
When in China, foreigners are subject to Chinese law, regardless of their citizenship. Rights as a citizen in your home country do not carry over to other countries and disputes are resolved through the local legal system. Foreign instructors in China occasionally have contract disputes with their employers. Employees should be sure to have all […]
MoreKindergarten Teaching
The most important thing, no matter what age you are teaching – remember to smile! Everyone’s kindergarten experience will be different, due to the age of the kids, the location of the school and what is expected of you in the classroom. I had 2 kindergarten lessons, once a week. A class with 4/5 year […]
MoreHow An Old German Lady Came To China
I have never been a teacher, the same as most of the other people on the program, and we did not speak Chinese so we needed some very special preparation for teaching English to Chinese students. I am the old lady. At the end of the year I will be 69 and I used English […]
MoreThe Advantages Of Having A Tefl Certification
Imagine a university student sitting in a classroom staring out the large window. As the sun pours in and warms their face, the student ponders what it would be like to get away from the world they have always known, and starts to think of a way to go explore the world. The magical thing […]
MoreFrom China, With Love…
With a wide-open mind and a lust for adventure it’s hard not to fall in love with China My boyfriend Joe and I have been living in China for 3 months now and wow, what an adventure we are having!! From climbing the Great Wall, to learning how to teach a class of tiny three […]
MoreThe Day I Got Famous In Changsha – My Best Day In China
The first performance went perfect, my second performance as the Big Bad Wolf went…. Forgetting to tell my school leader that I actually suffer from a terrible stage-freight, was such a bad idea. Today, after about 1 month of using all my lunch-breaks for practicing, I would find myself on a big stage in a […]
MoreBudget Beijing: Some Advice During Your Training Period And Beyond
It’s pretty easy really and it’ll make you an expert haggler. On arriving in Beijing and sending the obligatory “I’ve arrived, I’m alive” email to my friends and family in which I marvelled at the all the new and exciting things that I had seen so far, it seemed that the topic that had me […]
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