When I said I was living in prison, I meant it...
A post from our city's expat forum about a nearby university. Yes, UNIVERSITY. This is what happens in many cases around here, but this is particularly vicious as it was aimed at the foreigners.
Beware of the Wuhan Institute of technology. Recently, at great expense to the school, they have built a steel spiked fence around the foreign teachers apartments, installed a guard and scruitinize everyone who comes and goes. Steel gates are locked at 11PM, and opened at 6 AM. One is able to go out during these times, but must get the jail keeper to open the gates. As a foreigner I am sick of the Chinese poking their noses into my business, and this is the firm sentiment of all 11 foreign teachers at this college. The Chinese will be dragged, kicking and screaming into the 20th centuary, poerhaps in another 100 years. All teachers in this college have a very responsible attitude to the students. I have been in China nearly six years, but this is my last,as I won't accept this type of S-it any longer.
AND this one, also from wuhan...
My apartment is, too, on a campus. We cannot leave the building when the gated entrance is locked, usually around 9pm but it was supposed to be 11pm. This posed instantly to me a safety issue, if there is a fire or i need urgent medical treatment i would rather walk out of the building than jump from a window. The guards have a key but cannot hear me from the gated entrance, and on more than one occasion i've returned late at night without a guard in sight for up to an hour - one of these times the guard had gone home and wouldn't return until the next morning! After many telephone calls i had to find a hotel, but checked the guards hut on the off chance it was habitable for the night, and miraculously found the &?&'s keys!! So i let myself in and made a big fuss about getting my own key for the gated entrance until the school relented. I was sick of waiting at the entrance until a guard walked by on his patrol to let me out of the building, and also sick with worry about being holed up if there was a problem.
Beware of the Wuhan Institute of technology. Recently, at great expense to the school, they have built a steel spiked fence around the foreign teachers apartments, installed a guard and scruitinize everyone who comes and goes. Steel gates are locked at 11PM, and opened at 6 AM. One is able to go out during these times, but must get the jail keeper to open the gates. As a foreigner I am sick of the Chinese poking their noses into my business, and this is the firm sentiment of all 11 foreign teachers at this college. The Chinese will be dragged, kicking and screaming into the 20th centuary, poerhaps in another 100 years. All teachers in this college have a very responsible attitude to the students. I have been in China nearly six years, but this is my last,as I won't accept this type of S-it any longer.
AND this one, also from wuhan...
My apartment is, too, on a campus. We cannot leave the building when the gated entrance is locked, usually around 9pm but it was supposed to be 11pm. This posed instantly to me a safety issue, if there is a fire or i need urgent medical treatment i would rather walk out of the building than jump from a window. The guards have a key but cannot hear me from the gated entrance, and on more than one occasion i've returned late at night without a guard in sight for up to an hour - one of these times the guard had gone home and wouldn't return until the next morning! After many telephone calls i had to find a hotel, but checked the guards hut on the off chance it was habitable for the night, and miraculously found the &?&'s keys!! So i let myself in and made a big fuss about getting my own key for the gated entrance until the school relented. I was sick of waiting at the entrance until a guard walked by on his patrol to let me out of the building, and also sick with worry about being holed up if there was a problem.