Your year overseas can often be one of the best years of your life. You meet new friends from all over the world, travel far more than you ever did, experience a new culture, learn a language, and develop new skills in a fun and rewarding job. And there is nothing more satisfactory than feeling you’ve accomplished what you wanted after your year is complete!
If you’ve decided to pursue that dream of teaching English abroad you’ve probably realised you need to look into a TEFL qualification, but there are so many options out there it’s hard to know where to start. This post will present a few options so you can explore which TEFL course is right for you.
This was my first trip out of Fuzhou and certainly won’t be my last. Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain, was a hike I will remember! Here is my story on hiking Yellow mountain!
At 15km in length and the highest point at a maximum depth of 3790m, the Tiger Leaping Gorge is an impressive and dramatic hike in Yunnan Province, deep in Western China.
About two weeks into my life in China, I signed up for a trip to Ningbo. I was excited to explore outside of Fuzhou and meet some people from other branches at the school.
TPR (a fancy word for charades) is the core element of my job. It requires the modelling and acting of words, to encourage a complete understanding of a topic, without the need to translate. It allows the communication of an idea between two people who cannot understand each other through language.
