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I think the title is pretty self-explanatory but hello and greetings from China. It has been one month since I hopped on a train to take me to London, from whence I flew to Chengdu for my orientation. I have been living at my placement school, whose name I shall not repeat for contract purposes, for 2-weeks. I am here as a teaching intern with the Teach & Discover in China internship program, helping Chinese college students practice their Speaking and Listening ability.
So far it has been pretty chill. My workload isn't too heavy right now and my room is nice here. It is a college in Guanghan, a county-city that makes up part of Deyang, in Sichuan province. I was originally bound for Chongqing in the municipality of the same name but visa issues killed that move. But yeah, I have a kitchen more or less all to myself and the Internet in my room is great by China standards. I do, of course, use a VPN to watch Youtube and update the family on Facebook but that is about it. I'm no radical here to ferment chaos against the government, far from it.
My experience of China so far has been negligible. My college campus is about a mile outside of the city and my passport is still with immigration as they process the Residency permit needed for me to stay more than two months, so there has not been much in the way of city exploration and travel to tourist spots and the like. But this has only been a month and I am here in Sichuan until the 10th of July at the latest.
That's when I am moving to Beijing, to take up a full-time actual teaching job with a salary and travel expenses and all kinds of benefits. That is when the real work begins. I'll be teaching at a public middle school, and school time at one of those places runs from 7:30 in the morning to 9 in the evening. Chinese kids are under an insane amount of pressure.
This Beijing job will see me in China until September 2017, at which point I am considering either moving to a different city or maybe taking my more-experienced self to Taiwan or somewhere new.
So art on this page is going to be even thinner on the ground than it was before. My focus is to hoard my money and send as much of my earnings back to the UK. I still have student loan payments to make, and I intend to pay that off quickly.
Update over. See you all.
So far it has been pretty chill. My workload isn't too heavy right now and my room is nice here. It is a college in Guanghan, a county-city that makes up part of Deyang, in Sichuan province. I was originally bound for Chongqing in the municipality of the same name but visa issues killed that move. But yeah, I have a kitchen more or less all to myself and the Internet in my room is great by China standards. I do, of course, use a VPN to watch Youtube and update the family on Facebook but that is about it. I'm no radical here to ferment chaos against the government, far from it.
My experience of China so far has been negligible. My college campus is about a mile outside of the city and my passport is still with immigration as they process the Residency permit needed for me to stay more than two months, so there has not been much in the way of city exploration and travel to tourist spots and the like. But this has only been a month and I am here in Sichuan until the 10th of July at the latest.
That's when I am moving to Beijing, to take up a full-time actual teaching job with a salary and travel expenses and all kinds of benefits. That is when the real work begins. I'll be teaching at a public middle school, and school time at one of those places runs from 7:30 in the morning to 9 in the evening. Chinese kids are under an insane amount of pressure.
This Beijing job will see me in China until September 2017, at which point I am considering either moving to a different city or maybe taking my more-experienced self to Taiwan or somewhere new.
So art on this page is going to be even thinner on the ground than it was before. My focus is to hoard my money and send as much of my earnings back to the UK. I still have student loan payments to make, and I intend to pay that off quickly.
Update over. See you all.
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Still Alive and looking Forwards
I don't believe I have written anything on here for at least two years. It has certainly been a while in any event. First off, whilst I did stop posting art on this site I didn't strictly leave. I tend to click onto DeviantArt twice a day in the morning and evening to see what things have been posted by the artists that I follow. If I like something, I add it to the 'Favorites' and clear anything else from my feed. I also try to respond to the odd occasional message I get as quickly as possible. So what happened? Well, I'm still living in Beijing, China for the foreseeable future. I have been working in the Chinese capital city for almost three years now. By the time my current work contract expires that time will be three and a half years. It is my current intention to leave Beijing next summer (August 2020) for somewhere new. To recap for those who are either new (it could happen) or old enough to forget me in my absence, I moved to China from the UK to work as an English
29th Birthday
Today I am 29 years old. Well, for my timezone anyway. When this journal publishes, it will still be April 23rd for most of the people who follow me enough to read this when it pops up. My past three birthdays have been spent in China, which can leave me a little forlorn around this time of year. I miss my family, but I can see them in the summer.
I've been living in Beijing for over a year now. My time here has been good so far, and I am glad I chose to travel here to teach. My school has recently decided it wants to renew my contract for one more year, so I will be living and working in China for at least one more year. This makes me happy
Half a year in Beijing
So this past week was the half a year milestone for my new life abroad. I started working at my new school yesterday, though both it and today were just housekeeping days. Yesterday I showed the team leaders my lesson plan for my first classes as well as my overall plan for what I am going to teach throughout the semester. We shall see how well they accept the latter, but today was a simple opening ceremony for the school. I introduced myself on stage to all the students, faculty and some parents as well. I believe there might have been a local official or two in the mix as well. But they heard me talk, so now the parents know the school hire
Yes, I cleaned house
Greetings from China.
So, first things first. I have decided to clean out my DeviantArt gallery of all the remaining Joe Jones related content. Many of you will be annoyed by this, and I can only give you my reasons for doing so and hope this satisfies you. If it doesn't, and you're still mad well, that's your choice.
So last year, I started submitting comic scripts to the website Muscle Fan Comics. I've had over a half a dozen scripts accepted, and so far only one submission has been rejected. It was around the time when I first started submitting scripts that my life was starting to move in a new direction. I now live in China, Beijing sp
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That sounds like a life of adventure! Good luck with this direction you're taking!
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