Meet Kinga (AKA Kanusa), named after a Hungarian princess who married a Polish king! Not only her name origin has an interesting story background, but her nationality is also unusual. She was born in Poland, to Polish parents but her great-grandfather was actually born in the United States and was able to pass citizenship to the future generation.
Coming from a culturally diverse family, Kinga always had a broader vision of the world and knew the world was too big to stay in one place only. She graduated with an architecture and urban design degree, engineering focused. Pretty much theentire time she’s been in China she has been working as an urban designer, which is not a very prominent field in Poland. Also, large architectural projects don’t happen often in Europe, only in major cities, whilst in China, it happens everywhere and all the time. She had many job experiences in China and at the moment, she is working as an English teacher.
She came to China first time at the end of 2013 with the intent of stay two or three years and go back to the United States, but like many foreigners that come to China, she ended up staying since her sister was already here! (You will have to listen to find out the background story). After going back to Poland for a bitduring the pandemic, she found herself missing China very much and knew she had to go back!
Kinga has been living in China for more than 8 years now. We chat the differences in working in China compared to Poland, which was one of the reasons she decided to come back here, as well as how she is able to get out of her shell more and expand her social life in a way she feels freer than in back home. We alsotouch on delicate subjects such as politics and social structures of the country that can be beneficial or not for foreigners.
On this episode you will learn a very important tip if you are coming to China for work and how is the dating scene in the country for foreigners.
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