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miguelito	Just getting started	And what the heck is your state doing to one of my favortie Presidents, Thomas Jefferson? What is up with that?	view
miguelito	Just getting started	What exactly are your thirteen loves? A hearty Arizona "Ni Howdy" from Loudi, Hunan. My name is Mike. There seem to be a number of schools keen on couples. You will have some success there. And they are desperate for early childhood educators. There are thousands of Kindergarten...	view
miguelito	Hiya.	I know little about Visas, RV is the one to talk to about those. It is nice not having to worry about one in HK, but you'd still have to wait a few days for the documents to be processed. And what are the folks at the school going to do? wait around with you? That sounds unlikely. Also, they...	view
Rin	Hiya.	good to know something about the school. :) The lady that interviewed us seems really nice, she is called Vivienne. She said that she would send some photos of the apartment and school over the weekend. Also she said that the kids ages were 7-18 but that we would mainly teach 7 -12, which...	view
Rocio	Hey Everyone	Welcome newest TACA members, sorry I don't know all the names. Lieselaten vangogg Hanlie AshleyS Arealsage Turnoi tsarita80 bub124 sayjaykay	view
miguelito	Hiya.	It's not enough that you couldn't find it on Google. Afterall, it's a big country and there are many schools that just can't afford to have technology as a resource. That doesn't mean it's a bad school, or that you'd get anything less than you deserve by coming to work for them. I wouldn't worry...	view
miguelito	Hiya.	I'll Check it Out.	view
Rin	Hiya.	...but not a degree. It is a 120 hour one, with 20 hours classroom time. Yes, you hear so many stories it is hard to know what is true and whats not! I had the interview with the school in Loudi this morning. The lady i spoke to said the school was called Tongyun Foreign Language...	view
Beryl OMonkiss	HOW DO I CHANGE MY PASS WORD?	Yup. I see it.!	view
Robert Vance	Hiya.	Rin wrote: I have researched a lot about having a degree and not having one. If you have a TEFL then you can generally get a Foreign Experts Certificate. I think even without one, if the school knows the right people, they can...	view
Robert Vance	Hey Everyone	Thanks for joining. Where are you from in China? Are you teaching here?	view
Robert Vance	HOW DO I CHANGE MY PASS WORD?	Beryl OMonkiss wrote: At first I thought I had a brain tumor, but then i realized that I recently updated my browser from Firefox 2.0 to FF3.6. Great browser, but it can't remember my passwords, it seems. It...	view
miguelito	HOW DO I CHANGE MY PASS WORD?	But I still like yours better, Beryl.	view
miguelito	HOW DO I CHANGE MY PASS WORD?	This is a test to see if my profile picture will download.	view
miguelito	Hey Everyone	Welcome & Tell Us About Yourself.	view
Rin	Hiya.	Hi everyone, I was referring to Sunny's in Chengdu, I haven't been told the name of the school in Loudi yet as my interview has been postponed due to the DoS being unwell. Thanks for the info though, about Loudi, i have a feeling that it may be a Sunny's... I feel i don't have as...	view
miguelito	Flying Chinese Lanterns. Did anyone else see these?	During the Lantern Festival a couple of Sundays ago in Loudi, they were selling for 5 yuan apiece. They were primarily red, of course, but yellow and blue lanterns were seen hovering overhead too. One of my students was working the square and gave me a discount of 4 yuan. What a ganga, when I...	view
Elly	Hiya.	to get an teaching position in China? I know there have been some without - but have heard tht often the recruiter gets a fake degree. RV what are the "rules" on this.	view
Rocio	Flying Chinese Lanterns. Did anyone else see these?	I saw every kind of prices, since 5 yuan untill 20 or some more.	view
Rocio	Flying Chinese Lanterns. Did anyone else see these?	Late to say something about this, but in Fuzhou I enjoyed this Spring holidays a prettty lanterns festival. In Workers square in which front is the biggest Mao Tze Dong's sculpture is realized this lantern festival every year. The central day is almost impossible enter there, very...	view
barefootaquarius	Texas Removes Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard	Meh, most history books are skiewed anyway. In Oklahoma the Civil Rights movement only gets one paragraph. It gets about that in Arkansas where the Little Rock Nine were the first black students to integrate into a white school. One of the nine, Elizabeth Eckford, actually visited my university...	view
Robert Vance	Hiya.	Just to be clear, is Rin talking about a Sunny's in Hunan or Sichuan?	view
miguelito	"Long Distance Travel By Bus" or "Call me Colonel Sanders"	I was composing this and pressed "tab" when it all disappeared on me. Wazzup wid dat? Anyway, a Holiday Schedule should be standard issue. Can't we come up with one? Anyone got a template. Of just add on to this September ? Teachers' Day October 1 National Day...	view
miguelito	"Long Distance Travel By Bus" or "Call me Colonel Sanders"	So actually Lei Feng Day is March 5. But we are all exhorted to follow his example during the month of March here in Hunan. He was a boy from Changsha, who was tragically killed forty years ago by a falling telephone pole that was hit by a truck he was directing. He was known as a young man, 21...	view
miguelito	Hiya.	Dear Denise (Rin), My name is Mike and I teach at Hunan University of Humanities, Science & Technology (HUHST). I know little about the school you mentioned save that several of our students made complaints last semester about proselytizing (I actually had to look the word up for...	view

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