Live in China

I am currently applying to be an English teacher in China through CIEE. I am hoping this program will work out for next year. I can’t wait to experience all China has to offer!

I am Cuban, but from Miami, FL, i know what kind of system is the Chinese goverment system. I know from experience, trust me, but i still want to go and explore this land, it’s people and culture. I have a question for all of you who had been there? i am being offered an internship in the hotel industry, they would pay $500.00 USD a month, Is this a good salary to live up there? also they would pay my monhtly rent being a hotel or an apt and my food!
should i go?

Yes, I’m young, but I meet the requirements for this program I’ve been looking at, both in age and education. It looks very nice, so my plan is to move to China next July. I actually think the hardest thing will be not to have all my friends around me anymore, but I know I will make new ones.

They’re offering a chinese class this semester. And I know few if any will enroll in it, because most students are in nursing and have no time for a foriegn language. So what the hell.

Im studying at the university and want to move to china as soon as I graduate, Im actually starting to save some money. I just started mandarin classes and I hope I can manage to live in china, probably I could find some work teaching english and/or spanish(mother tongue), Ive seen many ads looking for teachers in blogs but dont really know how hard can it be to find a job as a teacher considering the fact my title( physics) has nothing to do with teaching langs. Anyway my biggest interest would be learning mandarin, live in a big city and travel as much as I can, perhaps settle and live for a few years if possible. I’d like to hear more experiences from ppl who has done this about the treatment towards foreigners, how hard would be to fit in society, does chinese women find white ppl appealing or they are closed minded becouse of the cultural differences(becouse I find asian women quite beautiful).
any help and tips would be appreciated.
cheers.

condolances for those who lost friends and family in sichuan. good luck to everyone there.

While I would love to go to China now and see things lead up to the Beijing Olympics, I’m just going to have to sit it out this time. I will be going in September, though. Start off with 1-2 semesters of Mandarin language classes and see where it goes from there. Who knows, maybe I can use my experience from the world expo 2005 to snag a decent position at the 2010 expo in Shanghai.

The more I learn about China, the more I learn about how horribly that nation treats its own people. I can’t in good conscious, live in a country that commits so many human rights abuses. At least here in the US we have a free press that can expose our government. In China, they don’t even have that.

Just to experience a culture so completely different and so much older than my own.

I want to learn it.What is live in China?
Is it free? and what?
Is China good or bad?
Thanks for answer….