canadian international school of beijing: IKEA Rescued Me In China!
- 09/30/10 02:16 PM
It’s National Day here in China today! This is the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This morning I was up early, still 11 hrs difference ahead from New Brunswick, Canada and got dressed to try to find the Starbucks’ the VP & ESL Teacher took me to before. As I was approaching the Solano Mall, I realized I was still in a different country. The western style Solano Mall gates to the mall area were closed. I came back to my original route and passed it to find a bakery. I found this wonderful (14 comments)
I woke up early, this sunny Friday, Sept 24th, since my body didn’t know what time it was and my clock radio didn’t work here either. I was ready for the long productive day! I met the ESOL/ESL teacher who had taken over for me, until my Chinese VISA permitted me to come to Beijing. Gayle Trembley is (5 comments)
Who am I and what time is it? Air Canada fed us 3 times, had dinner 1st, Cup of Noodles 2nd with chopsticks and with breakfast as the last meal, even though we landed at 3:55 p.m. Thursday, Beijing time or 4:55 a.m. in Saint John’s Atlantic time zone. Two FULL planes later, It’s been 17 hours and I’m finally in Beijing, China! I think this was a longer trip than Hawaii, even though we took the North Pole route from Toronto to Beijing. I was greeted by the owner’s chauffer with my 3 huge suitcases, my Macbook Pro case (16 comments)
With the news that China has bumped Japan as the 2nd economic powerhouse in the world, it was time for me to make a decision! I hadn't looked falling back into my teacher role, after 6 years not teaching, except for some 1 or 2 “supply teaching” short-term jobs here in Canada. The “supply teaching” jobs are like real estate, sometimes there’s a paycheck close by and other times nothing comes in for weeks or months on end. Currently, the real estate market is way down to 21% for the Saint John area and 30% for all of (27 comments)
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