Teacher Experience: Teaching Overseas (notes from arrival)

Nothing can prepare someone for a new world (year or so later found this was called, "culture shock"), because not only are you teaching some place you have not taught before but you need to take into account all the following, technology reaources, lifestyles, culture, taking care of yourself, expectations, etc. there is so much that we don't realize and so much more that we will never feel prepared for, no matter your prior experience. 

Without even landing yet, the fear of what happens when I get off this plane overwhelms me. Who will be there? What will it look like? Should I have expectations? Will there be others who feel the same way as I do? What comes next?

Without yet knowing how to expect the changes I'll experience I don't want to even wondering if I am going to be a good teacher, these are the moments I wish I knew the answers, but at the same time, this is the biggest adventure of my life, I'll relish each moment of happiness, wonder, and awe.

Teaching and living are both going to be firsts for me here in china, wish me luck.

CB

(2014)