I'm also going to be copying your blog idea. Can't decide if I like "Laowai/Waijiao in Guiyang" better, haha. You could continue a Waijiao series, whilst I do a Laowai!
Haha, yeah, it's escalated quickly and awesomely. Holy trout. Out of your ten(?) month contract, two of them are paid holidays?! Imma work in your school next! I love that you're just casually going to Vietnam, with maybe a side of Phillipines. And I especially love that I, too, will be able to say such things soon! Yeah, absolutely. I'm thinking we could alternate somewhat. Like, you come to mine and I show you mine area, then I go to yours and your show me yours*. Despite our relatively close proximity, our provinces are pretty different! *That sounds way gayer than it's supposed to. Jesus. xD
Dude that's awesome. I'm super excited for you. When we started talking about this and you were like "yea, I'm gonna look into China" I had no idea you'd be coming here in 2 months xD Hainan looks smurfing amazing, man. Make sure you bring a camera. And yeah, the Spring Festival is a beautiful thing. I've been off work since Christmas and I don't start again til February 20th. All paid. I seriously don't deserve it. When you're arriving in China I'll be in Vietnam, I think. Then to the Phillipines in February. After you've settled in and whatnot we need to look into meeting up. The bus options are not as horrible as you'd think, if you know what to look for. When I was coming back from Yangshuo I was on a sleeper bus. It had full beds and plenty of room to stretch out, and it was probably about 40 USD, so not bad at all.
Hey Keith. Guess what? I should be in China within a fortnight! And hey. Guess what? I'll be arriving in the middle of a paid holiday. And hey. Guess what? I may be joining a school camping trip to Hainan. Feel free to Google that, but be careful you don't make a terrible mess of your underwear.
Update: I accepted the job. Am now getting all the paperwork done. Had my medical yesterday. Also, update your blog, you fanny.
They want me to start as soon as possible (someone definitely flaked on them!). I'm gonna take a walk for a few hours and mill things over. Don't wanna make any snap decisions. But yeah, I'm thinking I will.
gotcha. were you given a time-frame for when you would go? and are you 100% going to accept?
Yeah, it will do. The school knows my training and they've accepted it. I think it's just the regulations of the organisation you're with, which is cool.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE congrats man, seriously. Do you know if you're TEFL training in France will carry-over to China, or will you have to be re-trained. BUT smurf YES
Been offered the position. smurf YEAH.
