Introductions

Hello all,

I'm 29, Irish, have lived in China for a total of 4 years (Dalian, Xi'an, Chengdu) but have been back in Ireland for the last year and a half.

Probably gonna beat a retreat back to 中国 at some stage in 2010 for several reasons, 1. Professional Development - I'm a language teacher and I see this as being where the opportunities are...

2. My wife is Chinese and is finding it difficult to land a job now that she's finished her masters. Plus she misses her mammy. 

3. I 爱  the place the language the food the people the lifestyle the work the weirdness of it all...

I'm particularly interested in hitting Xinjiang for maybe 6 months (my girlfriend's home province) and then heading off elsewhere to work and/or study (perhaps Hangzhou...)

So... nice to meet you all, I've thoroughly enjoyed trawling through your past posts, been a lovely nostalgia trip for me, and I feel I know you all already.

Slainte! 

Welcome aboard, Fozzy. You bloody Irish certainly get up to some tricks!

My wife is Chinese

Xinjiang  (my girlfriend's home province)

Lucky bloke!

Welcome aboard, Fozzy. You bloody Irish certainly get up to some tricks!

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My wife is Chinese

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Xinjiang  (my girlfriend's home province)

Lucky bloke!

No kidding! We're everywhere! 

Rock up into any backwater town in any country in any part of the world and you will find: An Irish person, a Chinese person and probably an Ozzy

Sounds like a bad joke doesn't it?

Thanks George and nice to meet ye!

Welcome to the madhouse Saloon, Fozzwaldus

@Amonk - Cheers, big ears! 

Welcome to the Saloon   there are some rules...let me see...err..they were written on the back of a baijiu label..uhm...oh, yes, here it is...no sanity allowed..

Rock up into any backwater town in any country in any part of the world and you will find: An Irish person, a Chinese person and probably an Ozzy

Yup. But there are plenty of Aussies floating around this place. Kinda hard to avoid us.

Welcome to the Saloon. Hope you stick around.

@ericthered  + Schnerby

thanks guys and happy new year!

Welcome Fozzwaldus from another Aussie with Irish, English and Scottish ancestry. (Yeah,there are a couple of convicts in the background as well. ) I didn't get to China teaching because of ill health, but I look forward to hearing about your up and coming adventures.... I mean the ones that you can talk about here.  

Welcome back to China, from a Canadian living in Dalian. Just to clarify what ETR posted, Slainte is indeed encouraged, it's just sanity that we discourage. Well we tolerate it from time to time, but just barely.

Welcome aboard, Fozzy. You bloody Irish certainly get up to some tricks!

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My wife is Chinese

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Xinjiang  (my girlfriend's home province)

Lucky bloke!

eep! just realized my mistake there ... she'd kill me if she saw that (and yes, there is only one of her!  )

everybody else, thanks for the welcomes! 

Welcome aboard fozzwaldus! Glad you stumbled upon us. 

Welcome aboard, Fozzy.   For some reason we don't have many reports coming in on life in the Northwest.    Looking forward to some accounts of life there.

  HI ALL
  This is IVY ,i'm new here 

  23 years old with ordinary appearance & figure. Got my BA in English and used to be a teacher in Hubei province, presently as a translator working in Shenzhen.....
Dadan recommended this saloon to me, Nice been here
  Besides, I'm Chinese

G'day Ivy..or NIVI. Welcome aboard. I would never have guessed that you are Chinese. Who are you translating for?