Sarah is from South Africa and teaches English in China. Her videos share her teaching life and cultural observations.
Her classroom videos are fun: a South African teacher interacting with Chinese students, Chinese kids learning English and a South African learning Chinese. She captures the laughter and touching moments of class.
Sarah also documents life in China: watching seniors dance in the park, celebrating traditional festivals, learning Chinese cooking. Every day in China brings new discoveries, she says.
She says education is a bridge connecting hearts. From Cape Town to China, Sarah found her value at the podium and earned her students' love.
Sarah is a South African woman teaching in China, famous for recording her teaching life. She represents "a South African teacher in a Chinese classroom".
Her choice: she came to China to teach at a school, recording her teaching and life in China.
Content: "a South African first class", "how lovely Chinese students are", "my Chinese colleagues" - real and warm.
Going viral: her "South African teacher receives handwritten letters" video spread - students wrote in Chinese and English; she read them in tears, viewers teared up too.
Significance: she represents foreign teacher-student bonds in China - her story shows education connects not only knowledge but emotions.
For readers: her videos move you with teacher-student affection - sincere giving is remembered by students for a long time.
She shares warm moments: on her first Teachers Day the whole class bought her flowers; when her throat hurt, students secretly put lozenges on her desk. "On a Chinese podium I found the meaning of teaching." She plans an English drama club for students during holidays to make English classes livelier. Her story is a microcosm of countless warm days of foreign teachers in China.
Her biggest gain as a teacher in China is "being taught love by students" - children thank in their innocent ways: a candy, a drawing, a "teacher you are beautiful". "I taught in South Africa; the Chinese podium taught me education weight." She plans to study educational psychology after this school year and bring better methods back.
Her story is a microcosm of foreign teachers in China - crossing seas to bring knowledge, receiving innocent love from students. "Education is a two-way journey; I found answers in China." Next year she plans to enter students in an English speech contest - "I want them to believe their English and dreams can both go far."
She filmed the magnolia outside the classroom for a year - from buds to fallen leaves, like the four seasons she and students walked through together.
Her next lesson: students write an English letter "to themselves in ten years". "I want them to see their own futures."
