found it?

A way of experiencing more about China, of learning more Chinese, of utilising my recent experience, of learning new things.

Hopefully my next step will be all this and more. In 2 weeks I am moving to Xi'an, one of the ancient capitals of China. It is in the middle of China, and is where a global NGO (Headquartered in the UK) called Plan has it's China head office.

Plan works across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, in communities where many struggle to meet their basic needs. Working in partnership with local people of all ages, we support them to end poverty in their community. www.plan-international.org/ It focuses on working with children, and areas such as education, health, habitat, livelihood and building relationships.

I'm going to be working partly in the field on education issues (not teaching!) and partly in the head office working on corporate partnerships and assisting one of the Director's of the NGO in China. I also plan to take a couple of hours of chinese every day.

So, hopefully it will be everything that I want.. the job I am looking for..at the moment. I'm very excited, and cannot wait :-) I'm committing for 6 months at least (until Chinese New Year), and then we'll see where I am, and what to do next!

In the meantime its a 10 day holiday with my dad.. and then i'll be in Xi'an!