2005-07-16 - 9:25 p.m.
Ahhh.... long tyme no tipe.
so I have been very very busy, and have just not made those extra minutes necessary to keep up on the diary.
Ok let me sum up. I signed a contract to stay here and teach the summer session (not to be mistaken for summer camp) and they were supposed to pay me 3000 RMB for 1 months work, and give me a free round trip ticket redemable at christmas. That was a pretty good deal to teach oral english to high school seniors, and college students. In fact it was sooooo good, it was too good to be true. The deal fell through, and so we decided to stay here and work on our masters.
Here is how the deal fell through. The owner of the school promsied a friend he could deliver 20+ foreign teachers for this summer session, and his friend promised to get 400 students, adn pay for the foreign teachers. So one week before summer session is supposed to start, the owner of the school only had 7 teachers, (thats ok the friend only had 40 students). So no deal. so solly chollie. Since they told us before the offical "start" date, it is ok.
Criss and I decided to stay here and let her work on her 2nd masters class, and me to work on my first masters classes. Ok. We decide to stay. Then comes the letter from Fort Hays saying we have to be in Kansas on july 20th for orientation. Ok we change our plans, set up the airline tickets, and then find out they changed orientation to aug 15-18. Oh well. We aren't going to change them again.
Needless to say, we leave on July 18 at 1:30pm, and get to spend 26 hours either in airports, or on airplanes. Ah the fun, the wonder, the fantastically eye poppin journey. Oh well, at least we found copies of war of the worlds, hitchhikers guide, star wars 3, fantastic four, and charlie and the chocolate factory here today in zhengzhou, and lets not forget seasons 1-3 of Monk, stargate atalantis, desperate housewives (all for 7 rmb a disc). Ah the wonders of china.
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