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3701 W.119th · Joined: 26 Feb 2014 Posts: 386 Location: Central China

I'm not a qualified history teacher. I don't want schools 'selling' me to students as such, simply because I have a 10 year old BA in the subject. It's nonsense. I came here to teach English.

I agree with you though, it would probably be more interesting.

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littlelauren86 · Joined: 20 Sep 2011 Posts: 94 Location: Korea

It's difficult to use quotes from my cell phone.

Nomad-ish: I also figure that China would have a lot more for us to see. It'll be interesting. My boyfriend is looking into outdoorsy activities already. It always surprised me when people traveled to Korea for the sightseeing. In my opinion, there aren't many touristy sights here.

Listeria: You're a bit off base there. I wouldn't consider Korea to be on the other side of the world, for one. Plus, both of us are generally interested in going somewhere else. As I indicated on the first page, we aren't looking at the same type of positions, so your in-school disaster scenario doesn't apply here. In the event of a break up, both of us will be doing well for ourselves. That's why I asked the question here -- I wanted to make sure he has a good situation as well.

And I agree with Brunouno about teaching history. If I were in that position, I would have accepted the offer.

hdeth · Joined: 20 Jan 2015 Posts: 583

Deats · Joined: 02 Jan 2015 Posts: 503

Have to disagree about outdoor stuff being limited. How many AMAZING national parks does China have? Go to Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan... actually just go to pretty much any province.

I do agree about some of the temples, city walls etc. All newly built. You usually can't tell because in true Chinese style they are falling to pieces after a couple of years... Starts to make their stuff look authentic as they are so poorly rebuilt Laughing

Never really found it a problem to reach tourist attractions in China. If there isn't a public bus, then a taxi will cost you a few dollars. Also flying in country is usually very cheap - or there are night trains galore.

Son of Bud Powell · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 179 Location: Since 2003

hdeth · Joined: 20 Jan 2015 Posts: 583

Deats · Joined: 02 Jan 2015 Posts: 503

Hey Hdeth, I totally agree with you that to go for a weekend would be really expensive. But I also think that is true for any country. Going from Fri night to Sun night there is no 'spreading' of the cost. If you go for a whole week though, you don't really feel the airfare as much. Once you are in said destination the only additional cost to what you have at home is the hotel and possibly attractions.

One example of a really cheap adventure in nature (or at least this was my experience a few years back) is Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan. We hiked the gorge for a couple of days and I think it was something daft like a 10Y fee and then the hotel on the way was 15Y. Can't really beat that. You can carry on hiking to Shangri-la. It is near Lijiang so we also spent a couple of days there and the hotel was 30Y. Other than getting there and away the trip was basically free. On the hike we met about 6 other people.

There are so many places in China that you can pick and choose. If you don't want expensive taxi fares, then don't go to the places where you need a taxi!

Most places in China also have accessible day/weekend trips from whatever city you live in. For example from Guangzhou you could go to other large cities, Macao, HK, Shenzhen etc or head north into the forest or south to the beach. Loads of stuff to keep you occupied and only a couple of hours on a fast train. Not expensive or time consuming. Same goes if you look at Shanghai or what not.