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Shroob
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| so far they have not given me the actual salary only the peripheral details.They claim it is 40 minutes from Guangzhou centre?? doesn't look like it on Google Maps |
Do a search on this board, they were mentioned not so long ago. I was offered a position by them but declined it due to the salary not being commensurate with the hours required. |
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piglet44
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Shroob not even sure I want Guangzhou at the moment anyway |
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ajmci
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Shroob not even sure I want Guangzhou at the moment anyway |
Any reason why Guangzhou is not to your tastes at the moment?
I'm looking for my first Chinese teaching position and I've got an apparently fairly standard offer for public university work at Guangdong Ind Tech College based in Foshan. So just next door to Guangzhou and (seemingly) near enough to HK / Macao to make weekend trips a possibility. |
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piglet44
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| It's very big and spread out and as far as i can see living in Foshan is like being in the sticks.Don't mind downtown GZ that would be ok.Have spent the last 2 years in Xiamen which I like a lot. |
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ajmci
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| It's very big and spread out and as far as i can see living in Foshan is like being in the sticks.Don't mind downtown GZ that would be ok.Have spent the last 2 years in Xiamen which I like a lot. |
Interesting..thanks & good luck! |
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Alien abductee
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| It's very big and spread out and as far as i can see living in Foshan is like being in the sticks.Don't mind downtown GZ that would be ok.Have spent the last 2 years in Xiamen which I like a lot. |
Foshan isn't a bad place. It's a fair sized city on its own and it's less than 30 minutes to GZ by train. I haven't been there for a few years but I think there's now an underground subway line connecting FS with GZ. For a lot of people Foshan is the perfect location, not inside the big city but close enough to enjoy it when you want. |
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piglet44
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks AA that's good info.Will consider that |
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ajmci
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, thanks AA; nice to hear an unbiased yet positive response. When I asked for info, the agent told me "Foshan is the third largest city in Guangdong province and belongs to Pearl River Delta, the south of China. Foshan is a famous Chinese Historical and Cultural City. It is famous for Chinese martial arts and ceramics.The weather in Foshan is warm all the year round. The permanent resident population is 7.2 million and the size of the city is 3797 square kilometer. It is very comfortable to live in such a city" |
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piglet44
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| I got much the same.But on google maps it said it took 2 hours to get to downtown GZ |
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mbryred
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| GDITC recently opened their "International School" in their Nanhai campus. AHEN does the hiring for the IS and pays and takes care of those teachers. AHEN teachers only get a Nanhai apartment. The main complaint about the Nanhai campus is that it's out there a ways. The nearest western life is a 15 minute bus ride away in the up and coming Shishan: 2 McDonalds, many nice steak house, sushi, bars, some Australians and many Germans (VW plant nearby).... Or an hour away into Foshan, where they have everything semi-western (Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFCs, Starbucks, Subway sandwich). An hour on the school buss takes you to the old campus near Sun Yat Sen University, Haizhu Island, for 10 RMB, which is a short bus ride from Zhujjiang New Town, the new U.S. Consulate and all the westernization you could hope for. |
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