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Boots Started conversation Oct 17, 2003
Caerwynn thought I should introduce myself. Am hoping to become TEFL teacher sometime next year. Very scared but enourmously excited.
If you have the time perhaps we can chat sometime?
take care
boots
PS also like the intro!
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beanfoto Posted Oct 31, 2003
try it, it's a good way to travel and get to know people and cultures, but Chinese students DON'T SPEAK BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES, ( AND LOSE FACE)
Hi beanfoto
Boots Posted Nov 6, 2003
Hey sorry! Didn't mean to be rude. A little tied up in current day job will have more time to return to threads next week (I hope).
Course on hold till March but that is OK too. Are you actually in China now? How cool is that!
take care
boots
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beanfoto Posted Nov 27, 2003
Ahh, I'd lost you.
Yes, I'm actually typing this in a Huang bar, ( Internet cafe) In China,and it's not too cool, still low 20 degrees here.
Words of advice for Tefl in Asia, Korea expects you to reaalllly work, Thailand is Hit And Miss,and Taiwan is even more polluted than China. China is a massive potential market, but only the official schools can get you the proper documentation, and then usually only months after you've come to China, ( but everyone promises that they can get you all the paperwork...)
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Boots Posted Nov 27, 2003
Hmmm no one said life was meant to be easy! Huang bar eh? Sounds nice, paperwork sounds awful but then paperwork always is! Still a few months before the course (March) but I am getting butterflies in stomach already!
Take care and speak soon
boots (from her personal huang bar!)
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beanfoto Posted Dec 31, 2003
I've tried twice to reply to you, but as far as me in China is concerned, the new set up on H2 is a pain, ( I've had to type in my birthdate every time to get in,( reminds me, it's my birthday soon)).
Huang (pronounced Wang, now I know why Peking became Beijing, (it means Northern Capital BTW, the Chinese are remarkably prosaic sometimes), bars are not cool, especially in Summer, and no one seems to know about the dangers of secondary smoking here.
If you have a problem with bureaucracy, and believe me, I do, practice counting to 1000 before coming to China, and in Chinese banks 1,000,000 would be a safer bet.
People work slowly here to preserve their jobs, but I'd climb the walls if I did what they do. Do you know a bank slip in my bank has to be stamped 3 times, twice with the same stamp?
But don't think I don't like it here. I fall in love with Chinese girls faces at least twice a day,( or I would if my fiancee didn't pull me away) and the natives are friendly.
Which course areyou doing? I have one of the more obscure certificates, but it doesn;t case me many problems, and my course only took 3 months part time.
Hi beanfoto
Boots Posted Dec 31, 2003
Happy new year!
China sounds chaotic but glorious and you obviously adore it!
Course is now february...life changed a bit...but that is good if even scarier.
TEAFL course is something to do with Cambridge university...not really sure. Doing it at Strawberry Hill. People say it is a good one. Four weeks intensive, hope I can actually 'do' student again but think the four weeks will work better for me than part time - I would think of every excuse I could not to go to the next lesson!
Happy birthday lots of eve's
take care
boots
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