It’s been a little while since I last posted a blog. Partly because I’ve had issues uploading anything onto the internet, and partly because it has been a rather quiet fortnight in Shenzhen. Nothing ridiculous and entertaining has happened in the past couple of weeks, which is a first! My lessons are starting to wind down now as there are only two weeks until the end of the school year left. I have just found...

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The sun is shining, the weather is hot and another unpredictable week has passed at Fuyuan Shenzhen school. This week saw the shock departure of one of the other interns. He had been planning to leave for a few weeks but for some unknown reason he didn’t tell any of the other interns or his contact at the school. He literally packed his bags in the middle of the night and left! He text some...

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Hello! So, I have survived another week on the China Internship and now there are only six weeks of teaching left. The intense heat of summer has arrived and along with it, the horrendous insects. My day always begins and ends with a mosquito mass  murdering session. I have no idea how so many mosquitoes find their way into my room each day but they’re there every day without fail. My legs are covered in...

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Hi all! Another interesting yet bizarre week in China has passed and it has to be said that you just never know what is going to happen here. In the past month or so we have had quite a few holidays. A bit of time off is always quite nice, however, as I’ve mentioned before there is no forward planning in China! I found out that I had a week holiday on a Friday night....

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Greetings from China! I signed up for the Teach & Travel Internship in February and am now settled into my placement in sunny Shenzhen! Shenzhen is located just north of Hong Kong and is huge industrial city, supposedly the richest in China. It was the first SEZ (Special Economic Zone) so, as you can imagine, it is jam packed with factories. You know all those things you have at home that say ‘made in China’...

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