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I got your pm, my account was acting strange yesterday so maybe that’s why I couldn’t see it. But yeah, I just texted you. We’ll be there.
If you’re looking to improve only your spoken Chinese, I know a very good, cheap Skype tutor. If you buy in bulk (20, 50, 100) classes, you can get the per class rate down to about 40, 45 yuan. PM if you’re interested.
I thought those scenes were hilarious personally with the shameless product placement. I saw it with some Chinese friends and they were actually really pissed about it. One girl said it ruined the whole movie for her.
High-paying part-time English teaching job
Hi there! As far as part-time teaching positions go in Chengdu, you’ll be hard pressed to find better packages than Vertigo Language offers. Read on…
Vertigo Language School is an English language training school with two centres in Chengdu, located on the north-east section of the 2nd ring road, and at ZhongHaiGuoJiSheQu District in the west.
The majority of our students are ages 5-10. With small class sizes of up to six students, a dedicated teaching assistant and interactive course materials using electronic whiteboards our students are a joy to teach, as opposed to some other schools where you will be given a dozen or more kids and no real support.
We are currently looking to add one or two more teachers to our team at the ZhongHaiGuoJiSheQu branch.
About the position
• 4500 to 7000 RMB per month (depending on class hours worked)
– e.g. 7000 RMB for 15 class hours per week.
• Two to four office hours per week.
• Friendly and professional work environment.
• Small class sizes
• Western management.
• Work visa support.
• Help finding accommodation and getting yourself set up if needed (i.e internet, how to pay your bills)
• 3 weeks paid holiday around Spring Festival.
• A ticket to your home country or cash equivalent up to 4000 RMB on contract completion
• Ongoing training.
• In-house Chinese lessons.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Preparing & delivering high quality lessons (lesson plans and other resources available).
• Additional office duties should class hours fall short of contracted hours.
• Attending and participating enthusiastically in any training, marketing events, national or international trips.
About You
• Enthusiastic, energetic, patient, enjoys working with children.
• Punctual and responsible.
• Can work independently or as part of a team.
• Clean and professional personal presentation.
• Graduated at least two years ago (required for work visa)
• Received your education in a western country, United States, United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand
• Able to commit to a minimum of a 1 year contract, preferably two years
Interested parties please submit the following:
• Your resume.
• A scanned image of your diploma.
• A scanned image of the photo page of your current passport.
• A scanned image of your current visa.
You can contact Will at [email protected]
Unfortunately we are unable to consider applicants who don’t submit the above documents.
Nike basketball park behind tianfu square. tonight. me and two other foreigners. 5-8. be there or be rhombus.
If any of you folks work weekends like myself, me and 1 or 2 other dudes usually play tuesdays or wednesdays every week at the nike basketball court behind tianfu square. email me at [email protected] for confirmation though if you’d like to join cuz i never check my private messages.
Quote:for now the nike basketball park near the chengdu stadium is the best location since the courts are good quality and its near the city center. this week i think sunday will be the best time for me at leastYeah, this place is the best for quality, ease of getting to, and decent competition. The one by decathlon is a little nicer quality-wise but it’s too far for most people to get to. The nike basketball park is about a block behind tianfu square.
My and 1 or 2 friends usually go there on tuesdays or wednesdays, around 6. Email me at [email protected] for confirmation if anyone feels like coming by, as i never check my private messages here.
Well, the nosebleed thing is probably due to the change in humidity as per the changing of the seasons. I encounter about a week-long period twice a year where I get 3-5 nosebleeds for no reason and they are always around February-March and October-November when the weather changes. The first time it happened I mentioned it to my doctor back in the States in passing and he brought up the probable cause of humidity change.
I, too, have been getting black shit in my nose when I blow it, but that’s too be expected in pollution-high areas. I don’t recommend exercising outside. My gym membership just ended and I didn’t renew it because I thought I might try just exercising in my house and running/jump roping outside. I ran about 3 miles two days ago and now am pretty sick for the first time all season. My immune system is pretty baller, so I’m blaming pollution for that one.
it’s an 8090 Chinese Android phone. The model is EMP202A. I can only access the Chinese app search engine and not google play as well, which is really really frustrating.
I already have a PS3 myself. If you can’t sell the package, how much would you be willing to sell the movies for, Charlie?
lol @ Vincent. I’m hitting up Wowo for some ‘foot of chicken.’ I’ve always wondered if KFC was ever going to come out with a bucket of chicken feet. Watching natives go at those things with those clear plastic gloves is gratuitously on par with my old neighbor in Chicago who used to regularly sit on the porch of our apartment and dive into a big, greasy bucket of wings from Harold’s Chicken Shack.
All of what everyone else has said, especially the part about studying the content that interests you. Many books will start with “Where is the library? The library is over there” yada yada but nobody goes to the goddamn library anymore so it’s hardly relevant. In fact, even the locals here in Chengdu will be extremely hard pressed to even name one friggin library in the entire city that’s not connected with a uni…so check out Chinesepod.com. They’ve got tons of relevant material. If you don’t want to pay, then just go to torrentz.eu and type in “ChinesePod” and download the bit torrent. Somewhere, John and Jenny will shed a tear, but turn ye a cold shoulder to the cares of corporations and ye shall find peace.
It’s good that you’re listening to CD’s tapes or the like. Most people’s speaking skills will be better than their listening skills because they’ve only recently started learning to listen to Mandarin in a cognitive manner. If you’re from the States you hear Spanish on a weekly basis, in Canada it’s French, but Chinese gets left out. Good luck.
I just figured it was common knowledge, but never conducted any research myself to verify. That is, any research besides all my Chinese friends restating the “No you can’t drink it” sentiment.
You can always just fill up a glass from the tap yourself, chug it, then sit down and fold your hands over your lap and wait anxiously for something to happen, taking minutes like a scientist and thus proving yourself a nice pair of empirical balls in the process, regardless of the result.
Another option: top floor of the gaoshengqiao mall off 1st ring road. They have some regional best sellers, like the Hornet’s Nest/Dragon Tattoo lady/whatever the fuck books that started selling off the hizzy a while ago. They also have a good supply of literature; the kind you’d be reading in any normal AP lit class. Prices are aight.
Quote:They are missing out on what real pizza is like.Dude. Why’d you have to go and put those pictures up like that? Why?! Like ordering Western food here and always being slightly disappointed isn’t causing my soul enough distress. I have to lay eyes once again upon those past objects of my obsession I have tried to corner and block out. I’ll be crying myself to sleep tonight, spooning a cardboard cut-out of Papa John I keep in my closet when times get tough. (OUTER spoon. outer.)
Quote:Attendees may drink orange juice but it is generally discouraged.Good point. If I have three or more glasses of orange juice in an hour chances are I’m taking my shirt off and jumping on the stripper pole.
I will say here “Seriously, guys” in my shitty Cartman voice as an opener.
I don’t understand the love affair with Mike’s Pizza. Yes, their various combinations of toppings appeal heavily to your typical American pizza consumer, and they actually use sauce, albeit never enough, though all pizza places in Chengdu are guilty of this, I’m a Chicagoan and I dearly love my sauce, but the other thing I love dearly is crust.
Mike’s crust sucks donkey balls. Absolutely and without equivocation. Donkey testicles. And the cheese is…well, sub par. I’m even gonna use that oft-spoken descriptor: plastic. The shit tastes like plastic. I live right next to a Pizza Hut, which I noticed hasn’t been offered up as a suitable destination in all of our long and often unrewarded journeys in Chengdu for pizza havens. Before you disregard my opinion by muttering to yourself, “This asshole’s bringing up Pizza Hut?”, the crust there is as baller as you’re gonna get here. You get your stuffed crust or traditional (which is nicely greased up and buttered) but both are cash money. Caveat emptor: sauce is nearly nonexistent. Here’s a plus: in China, it seems to be a legitimate spot to propose to your girlfriend. All Pizza Hut’s I’ve been to in China are immaculate, a stark contrast from the dirty ass, actually hut-shaped architectural monstrosities I remember in the States.
So I suppose the lesson here is you just gotta pick your poisons in relation to pizza cravings in this the great land of the grey. I’m just sincerely confused why everyone backs Mike’s. I suppose because it’s foreign-run. And they deliver. But I mean, christ, at least Pizza Mandolino uses a brick oven (doesn’t it? I think it does). Mad props for brick oven usage.
Han Bar’s near the ATT KTV a little south of second ring in the west. Probably 20-25 yuan cab ride. Han Bar’s pretty sweet, drinks there are slightly more expensive, because you pay for the spectacle as well. The bartenders are all Las Vegas-types with the razzle and the dazzle, blowing fire and tossing bottles and such.
The best part, though, is the western style. If they see you come in as a new customer, they’ll throw you a free round of shots. Chinese bars don’t seem to grasph that a pro bono shot of alcohol can go a long way in keeping peeps coming back.
Han Bar’s near the ATT KTV a little south of second ring in the west. Probably 20-25 yuan cab ride. Han Bar’s pretty sweet, drinks there are slightly more expensive, because you pay for the spectacle as well. The bartenders are all Las Vegas-types with the razzle and the dazzle, blowing fire and tossing bottles and such.
The best part, though, is the western style. If they see you come in as a new customer, they’ll throw you a free round of shots. Chinese bars don’t seem to grasph that a pro bono shot of alcohol can go a long way in keeping peeps coming back.
