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| Anna McAlpine |
| Vacationed in Cuba, Mexico, several parts of the United States... |
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| Diane Wright |
| I have travelled throughout most of Europe, North Africa... |
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| Jeff Bourgeois |
| Experience: I have been living and teaching English in Shijiazhuang... |
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| Dave King |
| I have worked in,or travelled across about 30 countries... |
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| Thomas James Roch |
| I am fortunate to have a significant amount of traveling experience in China... |
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| Derek H S Goh |
| Most of my travels in China had been with package tours from Malaysia... |
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 Jon Mcleod Journalism in China |
| Infamous for its absence of press freedom and until recently relatively shy on the global stage, China is admittedly a curious setting to seek experience and insight into the exposing world of journalism. Sterile though, it is not. |
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| Trevor Archer Business in China |
| When I arrived in China, I was pathetically ill-prepared. I'd heard that Shanghai was growing so quickly that any guide book was pretty much out of date before it was published, however, retrospectively the books might still have been worth a cursory glance. Teaching and Projects Abroad offered to meet me at Pudong airport but I opted to take a taxi from the airport to the Teaching & Projects Abroad office in Pudong -a forty kilometre journey. I had the address written in Chinese on a piece of paper as Teaching & Projects Abroad had warned me that the taxi driver wouldn't speak English. When I tried to pay for the journey in US dollars the driver's turbulent response marked the beginning of an extremely steep learning curve. That was the first time I had to thank the Teaching & Projects Abroad staff for helping me out of a sticky situation. Looking back now, the Shanghai I remember from those first few days is very different to the Shanghai I didn't want to leave six months later. |
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| Thomas Henry Law in China |
| What can I say about Shanghai? When I decided to go to China with Teaching & Projects Abroad, I must admit I did not really know what I was letting myself in for. Would I be stuck in a tiny little Chinese flat, with nothing to do and language I did not understand. |
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| Dorothee Garth Business in China |
| Four weeks ago I started working for a Hong Kong based company called "Shui On Land Ltd". It is a development property company, which runs lots of projects in Shanghai and China. The company also runs a little area here in Shanghai called "Xintiandi", where "yesterday and tomorrow meet in Shanghai's today", as one of the seniors explained to me on my first day. Xintiandi, is comprised of ancient Chinese buildings called "Shikumen" which have been restored into a museum, bars, restaurants, clubs, a hotel and a shopping mall. It's definitely a tourist place and you can see plenty of tourists at any time of day. |
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| Dom Elliot Business in China |
| I spent six weeks as an intern in a PR company called Sunnybund in Shanghai. I had a really wicked time. My office was full of friendly staff, most of whom could speak good English. My supervisor spoke English very well. even correcting some of my proofreading once! I had plenty of time to get to know my colleagues and even learn some Chinese while also getting some interesting projects to run. Probably the most rewarding of these was raising awareness for a fund-raising project for Shanghai's largest temple, the Jing'an Temple. I was given a free rein in this and had to take the initiative. I spent time out of the office rushing around to embassies and other places trying to get support and arranging a few meetings. I was also lucky enough to be able to go to the temple, meet the Temple Master and be treated to a delicious vegetarian Chinese lunch. |
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| Kyle Floyd Medicine in China |
| A typical day of a Medical project in China is full of fun and excitement. We would usually wake up around 7 or so in the morning, just enough time to get cleaned up and eat some breakfast. Breakfast would usually consist of toast and juice that we got from the local market, sometimes we would have pastries that we picked up at a bakery while out shopping. We would report to the hospital each morning at 8 o’clock, just in time to sit in on the morning meeting of doctors and students. |
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