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Honor’s Story

Honor Baldry, 18, embarked on a gap year in Beijing to teach English to university students!

“After sitting my A Levels, I decided to spend three months of my gap year teaching English in Beijing, China. I wanted to experience somewhere that was totally different to anywhere I had previously travelled to, and decided that teaching English was a great way to fully immerse myself in an exciting new culture!

The Beijing Agricultural University, where I worked, was really good to me – our rooms were really plush, the people were really nice and I made lots of new Chinese friends! I have never before met a group of people more intent on making you feel welcome than the Chinese.

At first I had a bit of trouble with some dissident classes, but I worked out the solution: if it’s a sunny day take a class outside, buy them all ice cream, let them talk in English as much as possible and they’ll love you forever. One guy even went as far as saying I had made his dreams come true!”