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 September 2006 to June 2008. This time around, we’ve decided to blog the experience so that anyone interested in trying out a similar adventure in China will be able to make decisions based on a bit more information about the country and its people.
We originally found this university in the early spring of 2006 not too long after I had retired from a teaching and school administration career in Saskatchewan, Canada. When the decision to look for a teaching job in China, we began doing searches at a number of different sites such as ESLTeachers, Dave’s ESL Café, Angelina’s, and China TEFL as well as a number of other sites. We got to see the job vacancy at ESLTeachers and then did a bit of research on C.I.T.. The China TEFL site had a good write up about the university (here) that helped us decide to put this job opportunity into the “in” pile. After settling on three prime candidates, it became a matter of making a final decision. When C.I.T. provided me with the e-mail address of a current teacher, we were able to get apartment photos and yet another viewpoint on working for the university. With that, we decided to accept the offers of employment.
Now, after a tw0-year break, we are again at the same point of accepting offers of employment. Read along as we prepare for the journey to China and to live and work in China for the 2010-2011 university school year.
Thank you so much for deciding to blog as you go through the process. I want to teach English in China, but have had trouble finding cohesive and helpful blogs on how to do so successfully. I can already see that this will be a mature, informative blog and can’t wait to read every new post. Have a great adventure, thanks for sharing it with the blogging world!
Hi Beth. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Now I already know that the effort is worth the time and energy. Don’t hesitate to ask questions along the way. Who knows, it might even provide me with an idea or more for other posts.