Blog 1: A country I would like to visit

 

Hello dear students. I hope you are having a good day. Today, in this first blog session, I will talk about a country I would like to visit.

Before my travel to Mexico this year, I was quite skeptical of traveling abroad: I always thought it was a very expensive and luxurious experience that I, an English teacher, would never get to live unless I considered the idea of studying abroad.

Despite this mindset, I have been interested in working and living in China. Yes, you read it correctly: your English teacher wants to cross the Pacific Ocean to teach English and live in a whole different culture.


At the beginning, my first approaches to this economic power were related to learning a new language: since I had realized that knowing English was no longer an advantage regarding my work field, I decided to study Mandarin Chinese. Oh god, it was such a mind-blowing experience. This language has 4 tones that are very distinguishable, but very difficult to acquire; also, since we don’t share any commonalities with this language (since both languages come from different families: Romance and Sino-Tibetan), it was a challenge to remember basic words as “hello” or “My name is…”. (Even with the romanization system of pinyin!).

I also took an online course about this country and its history and, despite the fact I am not a huge fan of history, I was drawn to understand how Chinese people became from this agrarian land to such a worl superpower.

If I ever decide to visit this country, I wish to go to the Great Wall of China, the Terracota Warriors, and the Zhangye’s Danxia Mountains.

Finally, even though Chinese cuisine is quite different from Western cuisine, there are a few dishes that have caught my attention: Hotpots,  sweet and sour pork, Zhajiangmian, and dragon’s beard candy.

 

What do you think?

Have a nice weekend!

Comentarios

  1. Benjamín Zavala16 de abril de 2023 a las 14:07

    hi teacher.
    I find chinese culture very interesting, but I imagine that the jobs there are very exploitative

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  2. Alvaro Palma16 de abril de 2023 a las 17:53

    Hi teacher. I am also very interested in Chinese culture, its language and its food. But something that impresses me a lot are its ancient temples, they seem fantastic to me.

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  3. Isidora González16 de abril de 2023 a las 18:25

    Hi miss, hoping you´re having a nice weekend, I´m also interested that some day could travel to China, I think that the culture and the language are very completes and the traditions have a lot of history and makes really sense in the people, but personally I don´t like a lot that the food, due to its history, have insects and specifically spiders that are my biggest fear, however, I´ll like that if in the future I have the oportunity to travel to there and can live that really cold days or watch that beautiful places!

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  4. Valeria Mena Arias16 de abril de 2023 a las 18:43

    Hi teacher,

    I think all the places you mentioned in China are very beautiful, it is an ancient culture that is worth knowing, and what better way to start than with the language.

    Valeria Mena Arias

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  5. Coni16 de abril de 2023 a las 19:03

    Hi teacher, I think that the idea of travel to China is great! I like to much that they have a culture so different, but for me it would be very difficult i learn mandarin chinese. I hope that someday you could travel and live in this country.

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  6. Felipe Pezoa16 de abril de 2023 a las 19:59

    Hello Teacher. In my opinion China its a very interesting place to visit, i personally think thtat the history about the country and its origin its so big and intricate, even have novels about them!

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  7. Bastian Gutiérrez17 de abril de 2023 a las 14:40

    Hi Teacher:
    China is also my favorite destination, I didn't know about the 4 tones and it seems incredible to me, it must be very difficult to master the language.

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