Travel in China on a budget

This trip opened my eyes to Chinese culture and teaching as a profession. I spent three weeks with an amazing group of likeminded people, teaching inspirational children and working with other talented teachers. I had not taught before so walking into the classroom was daunting to start with, but after a few days it felt natural. We had two days to settle in before teaching, where we met our fellow gotocoers and teachers and were introduced to some teaching techniques. We each had a different area to teach, e.g dance / drama / P.E and could make up our own lesson plans. We had free evenings and weekends which we made the most of by getting taxis to local towns and cities. The five day stay in Yangzhou after the teaching was a perfect retreat after our hard work and gave us a chance to spend more time together as a group.