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considering going to China from 03.19.06

I may have considered this if I didn't already have summer plans...

[School] is located in [city] China. A delegation from their school visited us in February. They are a middle/high Boarding school that is run and staff entirely by Christians, but they have a license to operate a school in [city] because they do not advertise themselves as a Christian School.

Every summer, they run a summer camp where they teach English in the morning and have sports camps in the afternoon. If you are interested in a short term mission, the camp is July 10-21. With airflights to [city] through Beijing, you would have to travel from July 7-24.

The cost would be about $500 to travel from Beijing to [city] and stay for 15 days. You could save $100 by taking the train, but I don't know how long that would be. I checked on roundtrip flights to Beijing from SFO on July 7 & 24 and the best fares are about $1000. So, for about $1500, you can travel to [city] for 18 days to teach English and/or sports. [School] also said they could arrange to teach you Mandarin while you are there. Also, if you know of students who want to go just to learn Mandarin and participate in sports camps, that would be OK also.

If you are interested, let me know and I will put you in touch with the head of the school.
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P.S. They also added a supplement where you could spend two days touring in Beijing for about $330. My limited experience and investigation is that is a very high estimate. I would estimate you could easily tour for less than $200 for two days, including all meals and expenses.

:: redeemed4hisglory @ 11:39 PM ::