I am a Scandinavian chick who grew up in Africa, then decided to head off to the orient: Shanghai, where I have been living for the past 2 years.
At the moment I am doing a masters in Chinese Economics at Fudan University, but will graduate in a month (employ me please!).
I love to pole dance and play board games. Oh and of course, singing Kalaokey!
April 16, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Hey Sigrid.
I have been reading your blog for a time and its quite cool.
I would like to ask how you applied for Fudan Master degree, which degree are u taking and i saw that it only allows group applicants. I am confused, maybe you can help me out.
Thx a lot
nathalie
January 13, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Hi Sigrid! I read you old blog and I am very interrested in asking you some questions about Shanghai.
Im going there in one month, and I will try to get a job just so that I can get along. Do you have any tips on how you do that? Ive heard about teaching english ( I dont speak chinese), but Im not sure what to believe, feels a bit naive to expect to much…
How did you get your jobs (the ones that were unqualified) and do you have any tips for me?
Thanks!
January 22, 2011 at 4:06 am
hey sorry I haven’t replied to your comment before! I have a new blog now that I live in Beijing (www.shanghaiedsigrid.wordpress.com)
Are you a native english speaker? As long as you are not ethnically Chinese you should not have a problem finding an english teaching job at all (most schools don’t want to hire ethnically-chinese people even though they are native english speakers from the UK or USA etc, because they want to be able to show off a “white face” in their company, stupid, but a sad fact).
You could look for jobs at Cityweekend classifieds, Smartshanghai is another cool website (not so much for jobs but for life in general). Keep you eyes open, you could even post an ad yourself in the classifieds. I worked for PopTots New Oriental, near Fudan University.
In april I think there is a jobsfare held, it says that it is for those who are not interested in teaching english anymore, but that’s BS, 99% of the head hunters at that fare is looking for english teachers.
I wouldn’t worry too much, you will probably land a job as an english teacher! And what is the worst that could happen, you come experience something new, and if it fails you just return home with cool memories. No biggie
January 22, 2011 at 3:41 am
Mighty f**k, you’re racist. “The orient”? Cheesy colonialist BS. “Kalaokey”? That is some playground-level racism right there.
January 22, 2011 at 3:58 am
Karaoke in Chinese is 卡拉OK。 Phonetically : Ka la okey
Im sorry you find it offensive that some of us take interest in other cultures and languages to actually learn them.