Hey all
I must apologise for not updating the blog more often. Lately it seems I have been completely focused on getting a new job for Spring(Feb09) and also some part time here at aShaoxing.
Well I am please dtop say that I have been surviving on the work i have been able to get here without having to draw money from Oz and also have signed new contract for Feb09 start.
And I am happy about that. I am going to ... Shanghai. Actually to a college very similar to the one here at Shaoxing I worked at last year. It is a foreign language college the same. A little smaller. I think about 6000 students. But I will be doing just the oral english teaching which is better I think and a lot more fun.
Work begins about Feb16th .. I think. To be confimed.
The job is at Shanghai but a little way outside, not that far from the airport. It is in a diestrict called Nanhui. Anyway I went there last week and met all the key people and they were all professional and their english level was very good. So we will see what the students are like soon.
Initially I am going to live on campus for the first semester and after that I might move to the Shanghai metro district and commute on the school bus each day. After I get more familiar. But I am glad to be going to Shanghai. I think there will be so much to see and do there. And also it is the biggest and most western city here in China. So that is promising i think. So you are all welcome to come and visit and say Hi. I will be there until January 2010.
I didnt take any pics of the college on this visit .. sorry, next time. So here are a couple you will not have seen yet. One of Isabel and Co from the local TEFL school here in Shaoxing. Taken at the TEFL Xmas party. She and friends were doing a turkish belly dance. Actually the whole night was great and full of chinese people performing. They seem very happy to do it, unlike us. Isabel is the girl who gives me the teaching work at TEFL.
Also Minnie mouse is alive and well and living here in Shaoxing ... I saw her on the street and she let me take a pic. Check it out and then ...
there is a pic of some students and me here in Shaoxing at LuXun Village. They are from the Summer school I did last July. We caught up here for a day after their exams. English names Sophie and Candy.
I hope you like
bye for now,
mt
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