The experience in China from September 2007 through mid-July 2008 was outstanding. It was so outstanding, I decided to come back after a decent interval in the U.S. That turned out to be about eight months and I arrived in China for a redux at the end of February, 2009.
This time I’m in Shanghai, a huge city near the coast, further north than Xiamen and a lot bigger. Shanghai officially has about 21 million people, but counting is a little haphazard and not everyone wants to be counted. Estimates are as many as 25 million.
My preference was to get back to Xiamen, which is a town that can grow on you, but having not been there for the Fall term, the folks who were there took the slots for the Spring term. Seniors in Chinese colleges and universities don’t take many (if any) classes in their last semester and find internships, so the requirement for foreign teachers drops considerably in the Spring term.
In any event, a situation came up here in Shanghai, Shanghai is in China, so here I am.
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