I have taught at EF Tangshan for nearly 21 months now and it's time to say goodbye. :( Check out this post from my blog it has all my students which I'm leaving behind http://www.rochieinchina.com/node/591 I hope all you new budding teachers form some bonds with your students, like the ones I have formed with my students. It really is special knowing that you are giving an experiance that only you can give and it...

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Full story with Pictures As some of you know at the moment I’m currently studying at Hebei Polytechnic University (Hebei Li Gong Da Xue). I’m also undertaking a Degree from Griffith University Australia online. As well as working full time it is starting to get a little to much for me to handle. This means that I need to drop one of the things I’m currently doing. I have chosen to drop the Local University...

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I have found a program called Identity Cloaker which will unblock the web in China. In their demo it will unblock Facebook and Twitter with a few other limited sites, but if you sign up then you have full access to the web without being traced. It only costs €6.66 /month for full access. I use it and it saves my so much hassle.

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Read the full post with photos at www.rochieinchina.com On the way to Qinhuangdao On Monday the 31st of May David, Wayne, Goku, James and I went to Qinhuangdao to check the hotel and area of the Tangshan EF 2010 Summer Camp. We left Tangshan EF at about 9:30am along the way we had a little hold up because of some road works and the car got swarmed by bees some pictures of them below. After...

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