The opportunity to experience and learn from another culture can come at any stage in life and should be seized immediately. The new volunteer teachers for China at the Aitece orientation day in Dublin on 8 July enthusiastically agreed. They were excited about the idea of sharing their life experience and acquired skills with young people in China and looked forward to widening their own views on values and beliefs in the Orient at a time when Ireland is becoming increasingly narrow-minded and inward-looking.
The new teachers will depart at the end of August to do a three-day orientation in Hong Kong before joining other Aitece teachers on the mainland.