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[Iloveamma]

Before I get all starry-eyed about teaching in Guilin, I am hoping someone can bring me back to earth.
What are the flats like? Are there modern accommodations? Price of living?
Does anybody have anything important I should know?

[The bear]

[ghost]

Quite a few jobs in Yangshuo, about an hour from Guilin on the bus, and one of Asia's hot spot mecca's for climbing.

Pay is not high, but the cost of living is pretty low here too.

Other possibility is to study Chinese at www.omeida.com in Yangshuo, and be a volunteer teacher a few hours a week at same. They provide free board and lodging there in exchange for teaching a few hours a week.

Make some interesting international friends there. Omeida school is one of the few places in China (or anywhere for that matter) where you have the chance/opportunity - to study Chinese entirely with Pinyin, as opposed to learning with Chinese characters. Not everyone has the time, energy or motivation to slave away for years to learn Chinese characters.

Many Sino scholars claim that learning Chinese characters is the 'only' way to mastery of Mandarin Chinese, but I met a Swiss, who was at the highest level in the school, with just Pinyin. Don't let others dissuade you. He had been in China, only two years, but was way above everyone in communication skills, pronunciation, mastery of tones, including those preparing HSK 4 and 5.

Ghost in China