With all the pressure and focus on finishing my degree, exams and local Council elections plus the excitement of my summer holiday to Barbados, it has only just dawned on me that within a matter of weeks I will be on the other side of the world teaching classes of fifty English!
A few months ago, I applied to teach English in China through the British Council's English Language Assistant Programme, and I was lucky enough to have passed the group assessment and interview stage and have been offered a place to teach in Wuxi, China.
I of course accepted straight away, the opportunity to be a teacher in a developing country, to experience another culture and to explore the People's Republic and other countries in Asia was too much to be able to pass up. However it is now starting to sink in what I am about to do.
In a few months I will leave Essex where I have lived most of my life and leave my friends and family behind to go to a country where I can't speak the language! However it is very exciting to now be reading the Lonely Planet China guide book and be planning what to do, as an imminent reality, rather than it being a long-off dream. I will soon be making a checklist of place and things I want to visit, so check back regularly to see my progress!
Furthermore, I will keep you all updated of my progress in China (and Asia) via this blog, so keep on followingmorris!
Thank you, goodnight, much love.
