{"id":288,"date":"2013-11-05T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/?p=288"},"modified":"2013-11-12T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T11:31:42","slug":"tales-from-the-middle-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2013\/11\/05\/tales-from-the-middle-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Middle Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teesside Graduate Conor Barnes\u2019 ambition whilst a student was to teach in the far east. Since graduating in May Conor has realised that dream.The following is Conors 1st email since starting work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I work at Changsha Foreign Language School as the head of junior two\u2019s (12-14 yrs.) oral English lesson, where for the past few weeks I\u2019ve been teaching them a range of topic\u2019s; from Music genre\u2019s to parts of the human body. Also teaching how to make comparisons, superlatives, spellings, pronunciation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I found that I\u2019ve adjusted to life here very well and are already considering staying another few years. \u00a0I have made many friends here in Changsha and have a busy social life when I\u2019m off duty, I\u2019ve even started a band and we should be starting to play some shows around the pubs and club next month.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Check back for further updates from Conor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290\" alt=\"Conor_02\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_02.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_02-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-289\" alt=\"Conor_01\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_01.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_01-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2013\/11\/Conor_01-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teesside Graduate Conor Barnes\u2019 ambition whilst a student was to teach in the far east. Since graduating in May Conor has realised that dream.The following is Conors 1st email since starting work. &#8216;I work at Changsha Foreign Language School as the head of junior two\u2019s (12-14 yrs.) oral English lesson, where for the past few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2013\/11\/05\/tales-from-the-middle-kingdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tales from the Middle Kingdom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6,41,39],"tags":[3,27,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fi1x-4E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}