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Growing up as a 16-year old in Australia, I was blessed to attend a well disciplined school. At the time though I hated it and compared it to a prison. It was 'boys only' and we had to wear a suit and tie, polished black shoes and boring grey trousers. One of the finer moments though was the opportunity to do "work experience". This was a fortnight where the school gave students the chance to enter the real world to try and get a taste of the type of work they may want to do after they graduate. If there is one thing I have learnt, be it here in China or anywhere else for that matter, it's that many people have absolutely no idea what they want to do in life or what it is they were meant to be. As a result many of us end up floating around and drifting from one subject to the next or one job to the next. So if you get a chance to do any work experience or internship, I feel it is extremely valuable. Go for it! I understand life and study here in China is super-competitive and teachers and parents do not allow students much room at all for anything but study. I hope this will change with time if possible because it is tough to talk to students who tell me they have never had a job before, never studied what they were interested in and never really had a chance to try and do what they loved. It's even heavier on the heart when students at senior high school or at university say that they have no idea what they feel passionate about, "I only studied this cos' my parents wanted me to". | 
