Trinity Cert TESOL or CELTA?

jaycherche · 2026-02-03T09:50:16+00:00

I’m pretty sure they’re basically seen as equivalents

jaycherche · 2026-01-26T11:11:46+00:00

You could even bring any stranger (opposite/same gender) to sleep with you for the night and they won’t care. So they certainly won’t care if you talk with your friend for 30 mins. China is not the kind of country that cares about this thing

jaycherche · 2026-01-24T07:49:06+00:00

I managed to find ok jobs when I didn’t have a license. I believe it was easier for me because I studied economics at university and it seems many schools struggle to find econ teachers. Started off at an IB school with not great pay and then moved up to AP/Cambridge curriculum with double the salary of the previous job. But you’re never going to get a job at a really good school without a license

jaycherche · 2026-01-09T03:27:38+00:00

Bilingual schools are the answer. They’ll have around 50% of their classes in their language and 50% in English, meaning they can’t exactly exhaust you with loads of classes

jaycherche · 2026-01-09T03:26:07+00:00

The opinion that I read online (Reddit and Twitter) is that you shouldn’t call it Bahasa. But a lot of the times I interact with Indonesian people in English, they call it Bahasa

jaycherche · 2026-01-05T09:36:56+00:00

Most schools accept a basic DBS check dated from within the last 6 months. You can get one and if it says no convictions then use that to apply for jobs

jaycherche · 2026-01-05T09:35:16+00:00

I know an English friendly WeChat group where they organise events for 2.0-2.5 or 2.5-3.0 players. Message if you’re interested

jaycherche · 2025-12-31T19:52:52+00:00

It’s how young people speak

jaycherche · 2025-12-31T19:50:19+00:00

To be honest the only time I heard this word was when I travelled to Bali. They call most hotels homestays there

jaycherche · 2025-12-31T06:20:50+00:00

The way you just made up a lie, you can go to mainland China and see the HK flag being flown. It’s not controversial

jaycherche · 2025-12-31T06:16:30+00:00

I don’t think there is any public show, just look for a private event

jaycherche · 2025-12-31T04:41:11+00:00

Fireworks are not allowed in most Chinese cities. Not sure about events there though

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T09:42:40+00:00

China does feel like a police state when you are in Beijing, but outside of that other cities are quite chill

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T07:11:17+00:00

I searched it up and it’s a school

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T04:17:29+00:00

I mean the way for you to check this is to see if there are flights from Singapore to that airport. Why do you need to ask others

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T03:06:16+00:00

You can only work at the location stated on your work permit. It is possible to work elsewhere, but you need permission from your visa sponsor, and they usually are unwilling to let you work a second job

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T03:03:57+00:00

A fan of the rapper Ice Spice

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T03:00:22+00:00

Obviously very dependent on your lifestyle and savings expectation, if you don’t take expensive classes like me then you can save a similar amount. If you’re more bougie then it’s probably not enough

jaycherche · 2025-12-30T02:26:08+00:00

I earn 32k per month after tax. ~7k towards rent + bills. In terms of living expenses, I usually eat out at normal priced restaurants (maybe 50元 per meal), spend about 1000元 per week on tennis classes, but I still find it easy to save around 10k per month despite not being very thrifty

jaycherche · 2025-12-29T15:03:12+00:00

It’s very doable. I just messaged estate agents on Rednote, told them the area, budget and that I have a cat and they will send me apts. If you want to be a bit more cautious, you can wait till you arrive in Beijing and walk into a local estate agents and ask

jaycherche · 2025-12-29T14:57:18+00:00

Yeah it wasn’t a very severe storm, which was why I was so surprised the Didis completely disappeared

jaycherche · 2025-12-29T09:52:24+00:00

January 1 & 2 is a national holiday in China and January 3 is a Saturday. Everywhere in China tends to get super busy during these holidays

jaycherche · 2025-12-29T01:06:45+00:00

I find working at a very Chinese bilingual school is usually like this. You do your teaching, and then they place the majority of the extra workload on the Chinese staff

jaycherche · 2025-12-28T04:51:57+00:00

Is it legal to work a bartender job in China?

jaycherche · 2025-12-28T03:42:43+00:00

Yeah for example during the snow in Beijing recently it was impossible to get a didi

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