Recap

I've been in China now for a little over three weeks, so I want to provide everyone with a quick recap of what's gone on here in that time. We spent our first two weeks in Zhuhai city, taking both Chinese and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses. After the training, we moved to a hotel in Shenzhen (the city in which we're actually teaching) to take care of some of the bureaucratic aspects of living in China, as well as to attend some banquets celebrating our success in the training and our placement at local schools.

A Texan named Niko and I were placed at a school in the Yantian district of Shenzhen called the Yantian Foreign Languages School. Specifically, we were placed at the middle school, where we teach 17 classes a week to students ranging from 5th grade up to 9th. We finished our first week of classes and are well into the second week now. Truthfully, I never realized how draining teaching is, but it's quite fun.

Right now we're living in a "transitional" studio apartment while our three bedroom permanent residence is being vacated? or cleaned? or fixed? We're not quite sure. Either way, we're about a 15 minute walk to the beach and a ten minute walk from school. Not too shabby. When I have a little more time, I'll write a bit more about the country in general and what we've been up to, but for now, I'm out.