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[wailingtraps]

Hi, if anyone can give me the names of some reliable schools in Xinjiang that would be great. Location not too important,maybe in the boonies is better.


Many thanks,

The Wailer

[Roger]

hahaha, my friend! "Maybe in the boonies is better"...
Maybe a curfew of three months due to police action going on is more interesting than teaching and travelling in the area?

I only know of volunteer organisations and EF that post teachers there, with very few local schools having the guanxi to hire on their own!
especially, especially in the boonies!
ANd the Internet seems to be fire-walled in more often than elsewhere!

[MyTurnNow]

Are you conversant with what "the boonies" really means in a place like Xinjiang? If not, definitely look before you leap. Even without the very valid concerns Roger raises, this would be a much bigger challenge than most of us would want. I think you may find that once the new wears off you're likely to find "the boonies" squalid, uncomfortable, and dull. This is true enough in mainstream China; much more so on the western fringes.

If you really, truly know what you're doing, please forgive my questions (and go back to Roger's) and go for it if you can find the gig. You're a braver man than I am, Gunga Din.

MT

[dan]

Dear Wailer
i think the biggest problem you would encounter in remote Xinjiang is that there is a dearth of places in which you could wail on your traps and blast the sh*t out of your traps and delts. im pretty sure extreme body building hasnt taken off in the hinterlands, so you be limited to bench pressing yaks and squating old russian cars (im no expert myself, but im fairly certain that these types of Rocky IV exercises, although difficult and impressive, wont give you that muscular isolation youre looking for). however, the upside is that you could perhaps introduce bodybuilding to the locals, become something of a guru in the making, and be immortalized in the new and improved maxed-out and hard-as-nails bodies that will soon permeate the chinese northwest!

[wailingtraps]

Well thanks to you all so far.....

Roger...I'm not a hundred per cent sure what you're getting at ..and just as importantly where did this three month curfew info come from..first hand...or did it fall off the back of the rumour bus....Any extra info would be appreciated....

MTN..thanks for your concern...I think I know what i'm getting into and i'm still at the rumination stage rather than jumping in...I've had nigh on three years in China..... so yes I've seen boonies..and all I can really say is...it's been an inner compulsion for some time.......and the boonies in Xinjiang looked a lot better than ..say the boonies in Anhui or Jiangxi......nothing against either of those places.....

Finally...my errant body-building disciple...Dan ...FOCUS my son..and thnk not of what your typing can do for the master......But of what the master can do for you...I swear i'm in the best shape of my life.....i've got veins in my veins.....i'm ripped baby..delts,lats,gluts...i'm the wailer..come worship at the altar of symmetry........


Thanks to you all...keep wailing

[Tim]

There is a school called Tuha, that is basedin Hamio, in the desert, near the city, that keeps advertising on tefl.com. I have a coupl eof friends who are working there now, and if you don't mind the isolation, they say it is great.

[ChadwickKent]

The public Agriculture uni is very reliable and a good place to work.

[wailingtraps]

Yeah, i'll look into both of those leads.Thanks very much.

Keep em coming!!!!!


The Wailer

[ChadwickKent]

Xinjiang Institute of Finance and Economics

Karamay Vocational and Technical College

[Roger]

Wailingtraps:
Curfews do occur in Xinjiang, sometimes for weeks. Sometimes you are not allowed to travel on certain highways or into certain built-up places.
True, my info is based on sources that are not approved by the Chinese authorities, but they seem to me so much more reliable...
Also I had an Aussie friend based in Xinjiang for a year. While there were no serious clashes between indigenous people and Chinese or authorities, she hinted strongly at inconvenience being the price to pay for living in a Chinese colony. The Internet happens to be interrupted more often than it is elsewhere, and many more sites are inaccessible than are in Guangdong or Shanghai.
My own experience is limited to what I saw and lived through on several journeys across the region. Ethnic harmony is not the phrase that would come to my mind!

[been_there]