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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Why? \u00a0Well there are a number of reasons. \u00a0First, when we left we said we would return. \u00a0We had originally thought that it would be nice to return when we could also get to visit Shanghai during the 2010 World Exposition. \u00a0A second motivating reason was that we found we were much too young to really retire. \u00a0Since we enjoyed teaching at C.I.T. and that they were anxious to have us return, it became an easy choice for a return to teaching. \u00a0And finally, our students and colleagues have kept up a thriving e-mail correspondence since we have left and it has helped us to appreciate the real influence we have had in Changzhou. \u00a0It’s always good to go where one is truly appreciated.<\/p>\n <\/a>More about us? \u00a0Well, I am a retired teacher and school administrator. \u00a0During my career I was involved in teaching second-language teachers and serving on a provincial second language teaching executive council as well as taking part in National second-languages conferences and pilot projects. \u00a0I come by teaching a second language honestly. \u00a0Maureen has spent a lot of years teaching adults a variety of programs in emergency medical services. \u00a0Maureen added a TEFL certificate to her qualifications in order to have a better sense of what would be expected of her as an ESL teacher. \u00a0 Putting our experiences into perspective, teaching at a university or a college seemed to be what would be the best fit for us.<\/p>\n Now, we have decided to approach the return to Changzhou as ESL teachers here on the WEB so that others might gain from our experiences of the past and experiences yet to happen in the next year of teaching English \/ teaching in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, my name is Robert (\u7f57\u4f2f\u7279 – Lu\u00f3b\u00f3t\u00e8) and my wife is Maureen (\u83ab\u6797 – M\u00f2l\u00edn). \u00a0We made our first trip to teach in China in August, 2006, just days before our 35th wedding anniversary. \u00a0We began looking for teaching … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
![<\/a>More about us? \u00a0Well, I am a retired teacher and school administrator. \u00a0During my career I was involved in teaching second-language teachers and serving on a provincial second language teaching executive council as well as taking part in National second-languages conferences and pilot projects. \u00a0I come by teaching a second language honestly. \u00a0Maureen has spent a lot of years teaching adults a variety of programs in emergency medical services. \u00a0Maureen added a TEFL certificate to her qualifications in order to have a better sense of what would be expected of her as an ESL teacher. \u00a0 Putting our experiences into perspective, teaching at a university or a college seemed to be what would be the best fit for us.<\/p>\nNow, we have decided to approach the return to Changzhou as ESL teachers here on the WEB so that others might gain from our experiences of the past and experiences yet to happen in the next year of teaching English \/ teaching in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, my name is Robert (\u7f57\u4f2f\u7279 – Lu\u00f3b\u00f3t\u00e8) and my wife is Maureen (\u83ab\u6797 – M\u00f2l\u00edn). \u00a0We made our first trip to teach in China in August, 2006, just days before our 35th wedding anniversary. \u00a0We began looking for teaching … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2006-12-december-279.jpg\"){kind=link}