Glad you made it and are enjoying it man.

Get to Yangshuo and the surrounding villages if you can. Great place.

At best, everyone will be as genuinely nice as they seem and I've found paradise.

I would be wary over this. There is no such thing as "genuinely" nice in China. Try saying this after they change your classes at the last minute without letting you know in advance, or when you want them to fund a visa run trip to HK when they want you to work for them, and they won't, yet all the teachers at the school are driving new imported cars, and every office has the latest Dell Pcs, and leather sofas.

Not meaning to be down on you, but you are still green. Most foreigners undergo a similar baptism of fire.

Just roll with it man, hope it all pans out.
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