Blogs from Guangdong, China, Asia - page 19

I have to say it feels very weird that in this month last year I was celebrating my 25th birthday and telling all my friends and family that I had accepted a job working for Disney and that I would be moving to China in December. Not to mention that I was drinking beer with the comedian Ed Bryne whilst working at a bar in Salisbury. It has come around so fast, especially when I add all the trips I’ll be taking soon. With my sister arriving mid October and leaving on November 1st its only 2 weeks till I go to the Philippines for my friend Casey’s wedding and then only 4 weeks after that till I’m home for my annual renewal contract leave. Disney Land – Round 2 of the year, Round 1 of ... read more

So not a lot happened in August for me to bang on about really. At work I did a travel event for the students as one of our referral events. I took the higher level students whilst Yoshie did the lower level. The TG wasn’t actually that great so I basically turned it into a geography lesson and changed the target vocab up a little. It was so good that our newest member of the KW family Annie an SFT used my plan for when she had to teach it. Shark Bait Hoo Ha ha have been rocking quiz night recently, doing very well with the uber geeky questions, and those involving Britain. I think after the great cheese debacle Frank the quiz host knows not to try me anymore haha. I’ve been planning, booking and ... read more

Keep it Simple; Keep it Real I try to adopt a “less is more” approach to life, and I genuinely believe that simplicity is the key, thus finding myself immersed in a culture that is so familiar with having very little and keeping things simple, has been both interesting and inspiring. Down the road from our home in Guangzhou is a construction project, a ten story building being erected by a small group of migrant workers. Not a day passes that I do not stop and stare in awe at these men who – from early morning to late evening – work tirelessly at what seems an enormous task. I must mention that they have no machinery, just their bodies and the hand tools they carry with them. I must also mention that until the building ... read more

Round and Round it goes... Fourteen hours on the airplane from Toronto and finally we arrived in Beijing, tired but in good spirits. As we approached security, I remembered that I was carrying all of Erin’s homeopathic remedies in my knapsack. Placing my knapsack on the conveyor belt, I nervously awaited for the Chinese officials to see the dozens of remedies in their little yellow vials as they passed through the x-ray machine. And then it happened… The conveyor belt stopped and I anxiously waited to be carried off to a Chinese prison where I would be interrogated – hour after hour – as to the content of these strange vials of small remedies. Wait, my knapsack came out the other side and no one looked twice at me! Phew! From there, we cleared customs and ... read more

Geo: 23.12, 113.25We went for the weekend. Friday night and then returned Sunday night.Only Problem.... Flight was delayed. We arrived in Guangzhou at 1am Saturday morning.Very common in Nanjing.It was very humid at the beginning of September.We went up to the top of the Guangzhou Tower.111 floors and 448.8 meters high to the roof but to the very tip its 595.7 meters high.It was the tallest tower in China until Shanghai Tower replaced it in 2013.There is a great view of the city. We also saw window cleaners cleaning the windows on the 107th floor. They where tied up with rope. It didn't look too safe to me. We rode Tuk-Tuks everywhere.The shopping markets are huge. They are out of control.There is a huge shopping mall just for ladies clothes.Another huge shopping mall just for ladies ... read more