Wednesday 31 August 2011

Beijing Daze

On the 20th August, on a very hot and smoggy Beijing day, with 60 other British Council Cultural Ambassadors, I arrived in China.

The two weeks we would be in Beijing were meant for attaining our TEFL certificate. Which I did, and also managed to see some of the sights, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Night Market. It was a really interesting awakening to the world's most populous country!

Once our 2 weeks in Beijing were over, the British Council group would split up and go to our respective cities and begin teaching. The training we had had was meant to prepare us for classes of 50+ students. More appropriate advice would have been "good luck"!

We set off for Wuxi on one of the new HGV "高铁“ trains which travel at over 300 k/ph, thus meaning that the 1,100 KM journey is done in only 5 hours... with a ticket costing only £50!




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