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We've had several interested schools. I'll post a few (un)interesting details about the one we saw yesterday. The job is $500/month, with housing taken care of. We are provided TV, Internet, a furnished kitchen, a two bedroom apartment and furniture. All utilities except long distance calls are free. We work 20 hours/week. Our students are 15-19, and class sizes are an enormous 40-60 students, but apparently that's standard in Chinese schools.
A few interesting things. We met the directors of the school, and played dumb about chinese because people say a lot of things very honestly when they think you can't understand. For a while they discussed concern over our lack of bachelor's degrees. Other than that, we didn't garner any useful information out of "not speaking Chinese." Our job interview was going to an expensive restaurant and being treated to an absolutely fabulous meal which we could never afford, and drinking toasts every five minutes with the director of the school. After about 20 of these, the director told us we had passed the interview. We had not talked at all about business. The interview was just to go and get drunk. We then walked around the school and discussed. We said all the right things about our concern over class size (We do what we do no matter what, our concern is that the advanced students will benefit and the poor students won't in a class that big), and by the end of the day they had promised us jobs if we wanted them.
The town is one called YiBin, and it is right on the mouth of the Yang-tze river. It is known for a unique way of cooking noodles and for liquor, which our school director told us about a hundred times. He also insisted that we should have weekly interviews.
Lastly. And I tell you this in the greatest of confidence. Scott and I have come up with our greatest idea yet - MexSiChuan food. HOLY SHIT. A big ass burrito with the perfect fusion of Mexican and Chinese cuisines!? I'M A GOD DAMNED GENIUS.
My phone number, by the by, is 135-5024-9802. You'd have to dial the international access code (011 I think) then China's country code which I don't know.
Going to SiChuan university tomorrow for an interview. Talk to you later.
A few interesting things. We met the directors of the school, and played dumb about chinese because people say a lot of things very honestly when they think you can't understand. For a while they discussed concern over our lack of bachelor's degrees. Other than that, we didn't garner any useful information out of "not speaking Chinese." Our job interview was going to an expensive restaurant and being treated to an absolutely fabulous meal which we could never afford, and drinking toasts every five minutes with the director of the school. After about 20 of these, the director told us we had passed the interview. We had not talked at all about business. The interview was just to go and get drunk. We then walked around the school and discussed. We said all the right things about our concern over class size (We do what we do no matter what, our concern is that the advanced students will benefit and the poor students won't in a class that big), and by the end of the day they had promised us jobs if we wanted them.
The town is one called YiBin, and it is right on the mouth of the Yang-tze river. It is known for a unique way of cooking noodles and for liquor, which our school director told us about a hundred times. He also insisted that we should have weekly interviews.
Lastly. And I tell you this in the greatest of confidence. Scott and I have come up with our greatest idea yet - MexSiChuan food. HOLY SHIT. A big ass burrito with the perfect fusion of Mexican and Chinese cuisines!? I'M A GOD DAMNED GENIUS.
My phone number, by the by, is 135-5024-9802. You'd have to dial the international access code (011 I think) then China's country code which I don't know.
Going to SiChuan university tomorrow for an interview. Talk to you later.