I've just recieved my official invitation letter to China :) next stop the chinese embassy in london and then hopefully if all goes well in just 1 month ill be leaving the UK for 12-18months, my first stop is Beijing on the 23rd of August for orientation & to begin my China Internship with ItoI and TTC, still dont know where im going to be placed so im trying not to get my hopes up...

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Woop i passed my TEFL weekend! Not only did i learn how to order beer in Japanese, but the weekend has been so useful and our teacher Karen was brilliant, really really helpful! Plus i got to meet another august intern which was great! It has really given me the motivation to power on and complete my Grammar module which I was struggling with but now I feel a lot more confident after being refreshed. There...

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verbs, nouns, prepositions, conjunctions, reflexive, possesive, auxilary, past, present, continuous, active, passive, conditional... I dont think my brain is working tonight and I am totally confusing myself!! I was putting off starting module 4 as I thought Grammar would be a tough one, but i decided to get started and even though I've spoken English all my life I cant quite get my head around all the tenses (more than i ever knew existed!) & I'm feeling pretty scared that in 6months i will be...

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So a few hours ago I got my email to say i'd been accepted onto the china internship and I thought there was no better time than now to start my journal... On receiving my letter of course my first reaction was excitment and relief to find out I was in and would be going to CHINA! followed only a few minutes later with total panic at the fact that I have never taught before, I have yet to start the TEFL training,...

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