There is a very high demand for native English speakers here in Qingdao. There are many schools looking for a foreign face that they can then upsell to there clients. In fact, to them just the appearance is more important than the qualification.
This week I decided to make some money off of the referrals that I have been giving. I have a friend here that has his MBA from Yale as well as his TOEFL teaching certification. I met with the school that I have been teaching Business English with today to negotiate a finder’s fee. …
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Alright! So, after all that stuff with the apartment and with the internet my computer went ahead and crashed. It seemed like one thing after another, but I took it to the SONY repair shop with a friend, and they repaired it for 300 RMB - about $40 - small price to pay. Apparently, they don’t honor a SONY warranty from the US. Strange, but still a small price to pay and I am happy they were able to fix it quickly.
I am in my new crib and really like the location. There have been …
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I guess you can choose your own name here, so that is my Chinese name. It means “Little Dragon,” which is the Chinese (real) name of Bruce Lee. That is my joke with the ladies – never fails to get a laugh. I like to ask people their name when I meet them – In Chinese this is “Wo Jiao Shenme Mingzi?” Then they ask me my name and I say, “Wo Jiao Li Xiao Long!” For my first two weeks here I was Zheng Leng (Jackie Chan,) but I think Li Xiao Long is better.
Funny enough – I got that job at MAERSK. I guess there were probably two reasons for this:
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Yesterday was a pretty productive day. I was able to get a job teaching English at a Korean school here in Qingdao. This will be a different experience than MAERSK, instead of teaching Adults, I will be teaching Children. It will be about 15 hours a week and the schedule is M,W,F from 5-8pm and S,Sn from 2-5pm. I think this will be a pretty good schedule because it will allow me to focus on Chinese during the day. Speaking of which, I bumped that up to four hours per day starting Monday. I …
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Following is an artiticle from oregonlive.com . I am guessing from the name that she is not a native Chinese; but, she went all the way up the ladder of one of the biggest pizza chains in part (I assume,) because of the ability to speak Chinese. I am amazed with the amount of opportunity out here, but also daunted by it - there is so much activity and I want very much to be a part of it, as should you.
I have really been thinking a lot about the value in focus and purpose. It …
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First of all, Thank you all very much for posting comments. I really appreciate the many great relationships that I’ve developed while travelling the world. I have asked my friend, Sean, the owner of Bootsnall.com, to modify the site, so that it will show the country where each of you have posted from. So far, I can name Italy, Mexico, France, China, Greece, Gibralter, and of course, The US of A.
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