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After finishing my TEFL and signing up for the China internship - things did not go exactly to plan, and although I am a person who tries to make the best of things after 3 weeks and feeling completely depressed, isolated and sick I quit the internship. Seems there was a lack of communication between partnering agencies and many contract items which were not stuck to. Nonetheless I managed to experience China for a couple more months and fell in love with Beijing. I would definitely go back and try teaching again, but I would arrange the placement myself.
At the moment I am in London trying to find work as a Newly Qualified Social Worker - I hope to be travelling and teaching somewhere in Asia in the near future though so my TEFL isnt to waste!
I am looking for some volunteer teaching work to give me the confidence (that was ever so crushed through the internship) to feel adequate at teaching when I try again!
My interests include: Art and photography, graphic design, sociology, tattoos, the Doors, philosophy, psychology, film, coventions...
I'd love to meet anyone that has similar interests or that wants to chat (:
Melek xx
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Wise decision!! i am also a newly qualified social worker been employed for 8 months and am cmpletely regretting the career choice. I'm on Tefl and looking to teach in the middle east
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Hey- not sure if this is too late for you to see! Meeting up with "tonyjen220" tomorrow at the weatherspoons in Sheffield City Centre, 12pm- your welcome to join us :)
Mark
Hi Melek! I see you have a rather big tattoo; are you having problems to cover it? Or isn't it a sleeve? I'm having 'trouble' finding and packing the correct clothes to cover mine (I have 20 tattoos in total; on my back, on my shoulder that goes onto my chest and on my underarm that goes down to my elbow). I've seen this coverup sleeve on Ebay...I'm sure I'll find a way to cover them. Anyway, just wanted to compliment you on that, it looks like a nice one you have (judging from the colours). I have an interest for photography and graphic design too aswell as tattoos, obviously haha Well good luck with everything and see you in China! .Diana.
Hey- only just saw your reply back- I haven't been logging onto here much. Are you about in Sheffield now? Fancy meeting up for a drink before we go?
Just saw you also gave yourself the Sheffield tag so I thought I would say hi - so hello :)
Atm I work for the Ministry of Justice highlighting stuff (psychology, security...all the juicy stuff) that criminals can't see but is in their files... but that's only until April 1st. After that I'll (hopefully) be working in the same place hoicking files around and moving boxes, but that depends on getting security clearance to prove I'm not some kind of weirdo. It's backwards, but I need more clearance to move files around than to read them and play god with a highlighter. civil service eh?!
I went to PCworld to have a look at the netbooks, but they didn't have the nc10 and the guy told me all i had to do was pick the colour, so i glared at him a bit and told him not to be so stereotypical (i didn't want him to think that i am as much of a sucker for pretty colours as i am).
it has been so long since i've been on msn that i don't even know if i have it anymore, but i am on facebook - i'll p.m you my email if you like?
oh it's been OK thank you, more criminals to read about... damn them! why can't people NOT BREAK THE LAW?! except actually then I'd be out of a job (albeit a temporary one) hmmmm. and i've been looking at websites full of netbooks that everyone recommended :) how about you? xx
I CAN'T FIND THE FRIEND BUTTON AGAIN! epic fail for both of us - maybe i-to-i have locked us out in an antipester stylee? i will be your unofficial friend for now
I put shanghai as my first choice then beijing but wish i put beijing cos i got a friend over there now lol, bad timing lol. Aww glad that helped, i seem to help other people more than i help myself lol. Traveling? well i was in new york last month and then when i get back from china im packing my car and moving somewhere near my granddad in Spain because that is all i have ever wanted for years. how about you?
ah thats not bad i new it would not be as good as where i live or have lived before (then again i will argue when i used to live in park hill flats lol). hmmmm your asking me for essay writing tips, you must be desperate lol. errrm, i normally make a load of spider diagrams and then write little ideas that can come from that. Ive just written 8000 words for my dissertation and still gotta read it lol. All i did was just read for two weeks none stop and wrote tons of quotes and then just listed the ideas and wrote and wrote.
I cant see this helping one bit but i tried my best so hope it does :). by the way i forgot to ask, where are you staying in china?
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