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Monthly Archives: April 2010
It Isn’t All Foreign
Wandering through the heart of any larger city in China offers a westerner quite a number of surprises. We expect to see something less modern, less western because of our pre-conceived ideas about what China should be like. When we … Continue reading
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On Being Understood in China
Not too far from the Xinbei campus of C.I.T. is a lake that was often used by bathers, clothes washing older ladies, and fishermen. This is a scene from August, 2006. When I left in 2008, the beach had been … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, China blog, Chinese, chinese language, communicate, communication, ESL blog, Mandarin, sound, teaching blog, teaching esl, TEFL blog, xinbei
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Filling in Time Usefully While Waiting
This is the view from just inside the east side entrance to Sunshine Gardens, the housing and apartment gated community in which we lived last time we taught at C.I.T. and where we will return in late August. The apartment … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., calendars, Changzhou, China, chinese language, ESL, foreign teacher, FT, interactive lessons, magazines, on-line language lessons, Sunshine Garden, teaching esl, xinbei
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Medical Health Form
This is a detail from the entrance to the XinBei (新北) campus of C.I.T. (常州工学院). There are basically four buildings in which teaching is done on this campus as well as performance and music centre, library, dining hall and dormitory buildings. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, Chinese Embassy, FAO, Foreign Affairs Office, FT, health record, medical form, teaching esl, visa requirements, xinbei
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Avoiding the Middle Man and Recruiters
On the first full day in Changzhou, two of the workers in the Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) took us on a tour of the downtown area of the city so that we could open up a bank account as well … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, Contract, FAO, Foreign Affairs Office, FT, middle men, negotiate, recruiters, teaching esl
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Appendix to the Contract
It has been a few days since I last created a post for this blog. From this point on, I hope to include photos that I have taken in China. This first photo was taken not too far from our … Continue reading
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Tagged appendix, C.I.T., Changzhou, China, communicate, Contract, ESL, foreign teacher, FT, negotiate
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Do the Research About Teaching and Living in China
Yesterday’s post talked about trying to be ready in terms of teaching skills and how to get some. At the end, I said that in the end, it came to being open-mined in terms of the world of differences one … Continue reading
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Tagged China, china daily, china rising, dave's esl cafe, ESL, esl teacher discussion forums, raoul's china, saloon
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A Case For Being Prepared to Teach English
Today I received another e-mail from CIT looking for needed documentation. Even though we had been there two years ago, they do need a current resumé, photo, medical, scan of passport main page, and other stuff in order to be … Continue reading
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Tagged CELTA, China, ESL, i-to-i, teaching esl, TEFL, TESL, TESOL, training
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Contract is Signed
Well, this sets the stage for the return to ChangZhou, Jiangsu, P.R.C. and working at the ChangZhou Institute of Technology (C.I.T.) as a History and ESL English teachers. We spent two years at this university, doing the same assignment from … Continue reading