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Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen September 4th 2009

After Pete was up until 5am last night with the WORST case of food poisoning I have witnessed in my life, I am ready for a afternoon nap. If you can imagine both ends for over 12 hours and not even being able to keep down water that was Pete's night last night. ENOUGH SAID!!!! We both had to teach classes today at 11am but it actually worked out so he didn't have to go to school. On Wednesday, Pete went to teach Class 1 but it was my Class 1. The teacher never interuptted him to say he was in the wrong Class 1 so today that teacher taught my Class 1 section their Geography lesson so they wouldn't have 2 Conversational English lessons this week. I then was able to teach Pete's class at ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen September 2nd 2009

Pete and I started to teach Senior 1(Sophomores) on Monday, August 31st. It was one day before our contract started 9/1/09 but we were asked by the school to start since that is when classes began. We spoke with our coordinator, Gwyn from CTLC, she advised it would be smart to start in order to have a good relationship and then used that for bargaining power later in the year. We caught the free school bus at 7:25 after receiving a text message from our contact teacher, Wilson, at 6:45am that on Monday's the bus comes 5 minutes earlier. We got to school around 7:45 to find out Pete's first class was at 11am and my only class of the day was at 2pm. GOTTA LOVE "Nowism". We then went back home to relax before going ... read more
Contract Signing Ceremony
Long Cheng City Centre Square
Long Cheng Senior High School




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