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Do you feel that a lot of traditional Chinese culture has been destroyed or forgotten? Example: I’ve had multiple people tell me or friends that chopsticks, and using chopsticks correctly, is a huge part of traditional Chinese culture. For me, this is pretty tragic. For a country that has thousands of years of history, having chopsticks as a primary representation of those traditions seems unfortunate.
From what I’ve seen, this exists because a lot of the traditional, physical representations of Chinese culture are being eliminated. Every day there’s new shopping malls being built where “traditional” buildings used to exist, and the few ancient places that do remain (like Jing Li in Chengdu for example) are being turned into tourist attractions.
This isn’t a rant or anything, I’m just curious to hear your opinion on this type of development, and if you feel China has, in a way, given up it’s history and culture for the sake of development and modernization
@SilviaT I haven’t taught Kindergarten in China, but I did teach University for two years and have some other teaching experience. Your current schedule sounds terrible, but what stood out to me was your comment about being “advertising”.
From my experience, this is what most foreign teachers are. What I really disliked about teaching in China is how little anyone cared about the quality of my teaching etc. As long as I was foreign, nothing else mattered.
If you have real interest in teaching, I would take your time to look around and find other schools/situations that are better than your current one. If you’re using teaching as a way to survive here (like a lot of us), I would honestly devote as little effort to it as possible, and spend your free time either looking for other employment opportunities, studying Chinese, or whatever else you have interest in in China.
I know that sounds bad, but from my experience, as long as you’re on time for class and your students are entertained, you will NEVER be fired. My first few months, I was very diligent preparing lessons, but after a while I just tried to make my lessons as fun as possible and didn’t even use the books or assigned material.
Again, all this is my opinion and I don’t know your situation, but teaching English here is not worth getting stressed out over, because the rewards for being a “good” teacher are very minimal.
Hey guys, So I’ve had some people contact me about this stuff, and I’d still much rather lend/give it to someone who can use it than store it (which is a little expensive). I’m going to upload some pictures of what I have.
And again, I can give some of it to you, and if I don’t come back to Chengdu it’s all yours. It’s not too much stuff, and a lot of it could be really useful
Hey Rick,
I may have found someone to take my stuff, but if you can put me in touch with Peter about the storage space that would be awesome.
I’ve never been in this specific situation before, but contracts in China are often very tricky/not legit. Did they provide you a work visa? Or a student one?
I am mostly interested in this “red button” that you can push to gain SPEED! Is there nitrous oxide in this scooter?
I started on the “one per week” plan, and that lasted a good 8 hours. I wish you luck in maintaing that self-control.
Hey, I though I was the the liaison of the biggest performance service company! This is a very disappointing development…
Thought I’d update this because I just got a Tourist Visa in HK. I went to the forever bright visa agency in Kowloon, and as a US citizen got the 10 year visa (only 60 day entries) for 2000HKD. That’s next day pickup. It was a really easy process.
Also of note is that I had a student visa that had not expired yet, but there was no issue in replacing it with the tourist visa. Hope this helps people who might’ve had the same question regarding student visas
Zoe, it’s basically just one video of a series by this western guy who lives in China. He has a character he created, and he uses this character to make funny videos about China, often showing some strange/interesting part of modern Chinese culture/life
Hey Rafael, I sent you a PM. Let me know if you got it though, because i’m not sure if it went through correctly.
I haven’t done it myself yet, but I was in touch with a visa agency in HK. They told me (as a US citizen) I could get the 10 year visa (60 days for each entry) in HK in two days for 2000HKD. A bit cheaper if you wait longer for the processing
Awesome, thank you guys for the advice. If I end up doing the Hong Kong thing or finding out any additional info I’ll post about it
Thanks guys! Yeah I’ve normally used firstrow but I’ve always used a VPN because the video played sometimes didn’t load without it, but I’ll for sure try it again. I have the fastest Telecom connection but I still have issues with streams being slow a lot
Hey! It seems like this hasn’t been answered yet, so does anyone know a place that will be showing the Patriots game live (7:30 am or so) this Monday morning. I don’t mind if it’s a sports bar or some shushu’s basement, I’m just trying to get Pats fix and I don’t have any sports channels in my apartment. If anyone has any ideas thank you!
