My first week in China
In arranging to come to China my contract was to work at a primary school, when I got here though that was not the case and I was told that […]
In arranging to come to China my contract was to work at a primary school, when I got here though that was not the case and I was told that […]
So I suppose in conclusion to the question ‘Why China?’ I have three responses: because I needed the adventure, I bloody love sweet and sour chicken, I live to travel and because subconsciously I chose to eradicate my romantic life and take solace instead in my extended gem-encrusted claws.
weeks before I travelled I had answered the common question of “aren’t you scared?” with a considered nonchalance that I felt suitably conveyed the cool and collected world-ready and cosmopolitan traveller that I felt myself to be. And I genuinely wasn’t scared, at all. Until the night before I flew, when I laid in bed barely able to breathe thinking “honestly, what the f*** have I done?”
I’ve sought out work abroad since I was at university and started pining for adventure outside of my sleepy university city. I knew early on that while my parents generosity […]