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These lovely pictures are of the South China Normal University in Guangzhou, the capital of the Guangdong province. Guangzhou is 1.5 hours by bus from my town Qingyuan. It is a very large city of about 15 million people, but I have yet to feel overwhelmed or crowded by the people. It is very easy to travel around even with very weak Chinese as almost all public signs are in both English and Chinese and most young people speak at least a little English. I ...

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... tickets are REALLY difficult to come across in China during the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (same thing).  Many Chinese people travel to see family, students return to their homes, people search for jobs in different cities, and so on.  There is a lot of traveling.  In order to get a train ticket you have to know someone who works for the ticket office, wake up at midnight when they go on ...

... never ever waste your time coming back for a second time. This spralling theme park stretches over several hills and valleys. Because of this, you'll find yourself doing a lot of stair climbing. Infact getting from the park entrance to the actual area of the park that is open takes a good 2hrs, requiring two cable car rides, a small train ride and a hell of a lot of stairs. Through your 2hr trek, you will see ...

Baoan is located outside of the Shenzhen Protected Economic Zone, and thus there is a border crorssing fee to "enter China". The school that I taught at (though I still lived in She Kou) was a private school, whereas the school in She Kou was a public Kindergarten school. I taught in Baoan in the 2003, whereas I taught in She Kou in 2002-2003.

... by bus, it's 45 minuted to 1 hour from Shenzhen to Sho Kou or vice versa). It was a rather large apartment (for Chinese standards) with a 3 piece kitchen, a 2 piece bathroom, 2 spare rooms, a living room, 2 bedrooms, and a spinner for my washing. 1 of the spare rooms I converted into a 3rd bedroom, the other I converted into my office, and the second bedroom I used as my teaching resource room. The ...

... too hard.' Immediately the room erupted into spontaneously applause and hooting. When I read through the interview sheets only two people said they liked going to the school. Others said it was 'so-so', or said they didn't like it because the food is bad, because there is no freedom, because the work is too ********e answer to 'Do you like going to school here?' had 'NO! NO! NO! Because I don't like this educationary!!!!!!' crossed out and replaced with 'so-so'.

... etc. Somewhat expensive here, but the other places should be better. It's been great exploring around - looks even more Hong Kong-like than I expected, if that makes any sense. I'll send out an actual update and pics when I've done a little more. Almost time for the buffet breakfast and I'm starving!

... the effort needed in order to make it successful. It's not that I won't try to be honest or professional, but it's like I flipped off a switch marked "effort & desire". I've been working some heavy hours doing what feels like keeping the school afloat, and calling in too many favours from friends on the staff, although I've also had some fantastic classes in this time as my own teaching experience grows. The ...