Chinese holiday

Oddly enough I was looking up what the national holiday in October was based on and found out that actually the idea of a national holiday appeared in China first back in the western Jin dynasty. Usually it was a day that was ascended to te throne or was born.

September 27th - October 7th

October 1-7 is known as the golden week. Large scale activities are occurring throughout the country and people travel all around China. 

The 1st of October (1949) is the memorial day for the day the PRC was founded. The PRC is actually formed September 21st is the first appearance of the PRC (1949).

Tinammon square is the to-be-place during the golden week, there is aarge military parade. 

Shopping malls offer huge discounts and there are calligraphy exhibitions, dancing, many regular festival features :)

If travelling during this time it is really hard to get train tickets, plane tickets and hotel rooms, usually thy are a lot more expensive than usual as well, plan ahead.

Just a brief little bit if information anyone like myself who may be heading over soon.

Cheers :)

CB

Paid for work at MLS

Payment options are established monthly by the teacher and put into affect by the school. 

Salary is determined befor the. Contract and is strongly honoured along with the increases in payment over time served with the school.

So your payment each month allows you to put so many dollars canadian into a Canadian account as well as a Chinese account. The school will allow you to use your current Canadian account and ask you to discontinue a Chinese one (if you have it opened) because they will set you up with their Chinese bank account.

They are trying to scam the teachers, there are just too many unknowns with some bank accounts and to avoid any such problems as a liability and accountability issue, they just rather have all teachers going through the same problem. 

The maximum amount of money allowed to leave the country is around a million q. So, a million of their dollars.

Each month the school subtracts room and board which ranges to a maximum of 550.00$ (from what I understand). Utilities included. The residence (if that is where you are staying) are built to serve a more western culture and if you are not on campus, the school works with agencies around china that can find you a more western culturized home for your time in china.

Visa cards are not really useful there unless you are shopping online or something maybe.

I'm so excited, thanks for following and good luck in your future endeavours amigo!

Cheers! 

CB