Challenging but highly rewarding

Gotoco is a challenging but highly rewarding programme and offers a unique and special way to experience Chinese culture through teaching English and interacting with the children as well as local teachers. Teaching English to a class of 37 young children has greatly improved my confidence and improvisation skills: it was not uncommon that something unexpected would happen during my lessons, and even if I would prepare lesson plans, it was important to remain calm and with an air of confidence when things didn't go as planned (powerpoint wouldn't load, music/film wasn't playing, etc...) There were often delays and things were unpredictable in China, we would also only learn/discover things at the very last minute and in hindsight all of this greatly improved my patience.