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My life teaching at The Affiliated International School of Shenzhen University
Greetings from Shenzhen! I have been living and working in Shenzhen for nearly four years now. I started my English teaching career in China working for a company in Shanghai that hires foreign teachers and places them at schools throughout the city, which can be a good way to start your Chinese journey, but after four years in cold classrooms, I decided to move south. I chose Shenzhen because it has decent air quality (for China, anyway), warm winters, and is just across the border from Hong Kong and other interesting east Asian destinations. It’s also a first-tier city, meaning…