I started looking for a job on Friday, and got a call to an interview with Goro language school on Friday evening. I've just had the interview and have been offered the job. I'm excited, I'm finally getting to use my TEFL qualification and I will get some teaching practice prior to applying for a PGCE. The language school is very smart and professional-looking, it is owned by a Japaneses guy called Naga. I think it will be a fun place to work for a few months.
We spent the weekend in Hong Kong with Alex. It is a multi-cultural, crowded, noisy and dirty city. That said, it has some awesome geography and is really quite spectacular. I'd booked the hostel, and the confirmation email had warned about 'angry men' and 'mafia' in the lift lobby - always bodes well. True to their word, we did feel a little threatened, but managed to get to our hotel only to find they'd given our room away and put us in an even dodgier hotel. Oh well... at least we had somewhere to sleep.
The food and atmosphere is great, it's bustling, lively and neon-lit. We walked along the twenty-minute escalator ride between the levels of the city; took the famous star ferry by night and by day; had dim-sum in a beautiful old teahouse; visited temples; gawked at the food markets and fought our way through ladies market selling fake handbags and T-shirts. We ate well, drank well and walked a lot. On the Sunday we made it out to the Island of Lantau and visited the Giant Buddha and tea garden for some much-deserved chill-out time playing cards and drinking beer. All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable weekend.
We spent the weekend in Hong Kong with Alex. It is a multi-cultural, crowded, noisy and dirty city. That said, it has some awesome geography and is really quite spectacular. I'd booked the hostel, and the confirmation email had warned about 'angry men' and 'mafia' in the lift lobby - always bodes well. True to their word, we did feel a little threatened, but managed to get to our hotel only to find they'd given our room away and put us in an even dodgier hotel. Oh well... at least we had somewhere to sleep.
The food and atmosphere is great, it's bustling, lively and neon-lit. We walked along the twenty-minute escalator ride between the levels of the city; took the famous star ferry by night and by day; had dim-sum in a beautiful old teahouse; visited temples; gawked at the food markets and fought our way through ladies market selling fake handbags and T-shirts. We ate well, drank well and walked a lot. On the Sunday we made it out to the Island of Lantau and visited the Giant Buddha and tea garden for some much-deserved chill-out time playing cards and drinking beer. All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable weekend.
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