Travel To Grow

Okay I had a few more club experiences, and I remember them this time! Chinese beers are big. We started the night at this really cool BBQ place which sells 3 of these massive beers for 10 RMB… that works out to about 50cents per beer. As Matt and I were drinking at the BBQ [...]

So I talked to my friend Angela a couple days later and she saw the event on the news, she was able to clear up a few things. What happened was as the bus was driving towards the bridge its engine caught on fire. Somehow this fire also disabled the bus’s brakes so it was [...]

With our school we have Monday and Tuesdays off, so Sunday night we usually take the bus down to Foshan to hang out with the whole crew. Since there was 3 of us together and we were a little tired/lazy from all the teaching we decided we’d take a peaceful hour long taxi ride instead [...]

One of the most interesting things about living in china is how rare foreigners are. There’s so few of us that it creates an effect with how the Chinese people perceive us. It’s what I like to call Rock star status. We foreigners are treated like slightly famous people, like if we had been in a slightly [...]

If I had to pick the one craziest thing about china, it would absolutely be the driving. The roads where I am are absolutely insane. It’s complete madness. I don’t care how long you’ve been driving in Canada, and how many people cut you off, how many close calls you’ve had , how many stupid [...]

In my last post I said that no one treats me in a negative way because I’m a foreigner but there’s one exception! The Beggars! Deeehy Tooouuk Ouurrrr Jeeeooobsss! The homeless people in Toronto have nothing on the people who ask for change in China. In Toronto the beggars usually sit on the side of [...]

After finishing all the demos we had a couple days off, awesome! I finally got to meet the whole crew. The reason I decided to come to this specific school in China is because I knew a few people who taught here. We all took the Teaching English course together and they told me the [...]

I’m officially an English teacher! Nice. I had my first classes today, and it was pretty intense, I had 4 classes today (by far my busiest day of the week) and the ages ranged from about 5-13. Each class was a different skill level and I had a different lesson prepared for each. My lessons [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve written something cause there’s been so much going on! Since the semester starts soon we are doing loads of promotional activities to get people around Foshan interested in our schools. Recently we’ve been hitting the streets at night and setting up information booths and roaming the streets handing out [...]

It’s been a busy couple of days. With the new semester starting there’s a bunch to do. For the other new teachers and myself we had to make a demonstration lesson. It’s like a real class but only 20 minutes in length instead of 2 hours and we teach the TA’s and staff instead of [...]