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[quote=APAULT                  ,28475]I am a mature age foreign teacher nearing the end of my first year here.  I came because finally I could!  I seemed to be free of family commitments (in the nicest possible way); I had had enough of working in IT; China has so many jobs it is a great place to return to my first profession that I love, teaching; and I have had and still have many Chinese friends in Australia and on the internet and I have wanted to visit China for many years.  Like others have said, we are not here for the money..the salary is high by Chinese standards but savings are not worth much.  True, I can live well here, though in fact I save most of my money.  So what will I use it for?  Travel, of course, to see more of China!To be honest, there are many things wrong with my environment over the past year, but I stayed on because of my students, and because I know that my situation is not typical of much of China.  I look forward with confidence to the coming year (or years).  Next stop, a summer school in Shanghai, after that I head south, I hear Hainan is warm :)[/quote]

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