Yay I got the Job! Off to Nanjing - again!

Hurrah!

I have been offered the job at the Dongshan Foreign Language School in Nanjing. This is great news as this is the school I was hoping to go to.  There are a number of benefits, the wages are double what other schools are offering, its still only 20 hours a week teaching and the extras like the accommodation seems nice too. Plus I will be near my old friends.

So it gets serious now, Im off to see the doctor of Friday to get my medical form so we can apply for my Z visa. Thats going to cost £80.  Snooks had her rabies and other jabs the other day thats £75. So its not cheap.

These are the main details of the job

Your working hours will be 20 teaching hours as maximum with 2 days off per week.

  

We will provide:

1.Comprehensive Medical insurance, health check and Chinese residence permission.

2. 8000RMB as travel allowance after successful completion of the contract

3. Accommodations at no cost on campus by the school (utilities, telephone bills, internet fees, food and other personal expenditures excluded).

 4. Teachers will enjoy all the legal holidays in China as Chinese people do and a paid winter holidays.

School Profile:

 

The school was established in 2003 with a new campus covering an area of 70000m2 featuring advanced extablishment, beautiful and spectacular scenery.

It pursues the "cultivation of high literacy beneficiary to students all life" as its operation tenet.

 

It has succussively become the key national cultivation education experimental school, national foreign language education experimental school, national top 100 characteristic school, with 60  classes, 6 grades, over 3000 students and 220 full time teachers. Students in the school features elegant behaviours, distinguished temperament, gracious morality and great amibitions.

Cambridge International Center has been newly established , with its new website: http://cic.dswx.cn/

 

Choices, Choices

The last time I wrote I was considering the two places I mentioned, one in Chengdu and CUMT.  I had pretty much decided on the job in Chengdu. Well fate and AJ always sticks a spanner in the works and at AJ's recommendation up pops another job in Nanjing.

Its a Cambridge International Center of Nanjing Dongshan Foreign Language School which has been newly established  this is the new website: http://cic.dswx.cn/ (in Chinese)

The wages are better than the Chengdu job as are the conditions.

These are the photos Ive been sent of the school:

These of the accommodation:

Ive had to do a demonstration teaching video for them. Me and Mat spent about 2 hours doing it yesterday.


This is it

So I'm waiting to hear from them now. Fingers crossed.

Never say never.

Well its been a while, but it seems that I might be going to China again.

WHAT????? you say. What, after the miserable time you roll out in the last blog? The terrible boring experience you claim you had in Nanjing?

I know I know. But time has passed and hindsight is great and the fact that I need to work and there's not much opportunity here in the UK has made me rethink my experiences and priorities.

I also think, in hindsight, that the road traffic accident I was involved in in Nanjing affected me more than I thought it did.  I think faced with my own mortality I panicked and got myself into a funk and a bit depressed I guess.

Plus the age 60 visa ceiling is looming and I want some more adventure as life here in Plymouth is a little bit dull to be honest and I'm running out of money.

I would love to go back to Nanjing simply because I do have lovely friends there and it would be great to pick up again with them and of course its nice to have that 'security blanket' of people already there, ready made friends. But on the other hand it would be great to go elsewhere and make new friends, see new things.

There are two front runners at the moment who seem keen on me. (Im not going to mention the many that have told me Im too old :-(  )

One is Chengdu Jiaxiang Foreign Language School – Pixian Campus 

school website: http://www.jxfls.com/plus/list.php?tid=13

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As you can see its in the West of China so that will be a totally different experience than the prosperous East coast and its relatively near Vietnam and Cambodia for exploring and its teaching 7 -15 years old so that could be fun.

The other is China University of Mining and Technology.  http://eng.cumt.edu.cn/






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This is, I am told a prestigious university and as you can see its on the West coast north of Nanjing.
This will be teaching older students which in my last experience was a bit of a double edged sword. Are they wanting to learn English or are they just there because they have to be, sleeping, playing on their phones, no books, pencils or paper.

There are a couple of other's in the frame one right in the North. And AJ is pursuing a Kindergarden post in Nanjing.

I've had a couple of Skype conversations and today I have to record a video for CUMT for their academic committee, I've got to see the doctor to get a medical form done, hopefully that will be no problem

This time Snook Doggy Dog will be coming with me.  I've asked and at least Chengdu Jiaxiang Foreign Language School have said its fine. :-)


So we will have to wait and see.