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Thank you Sally! What a wonderful reply, a real pick-me-up, and just what I need to hear. I am going to print it out and keep in my bag... just as soon as they get me the promised printer. :wink: I would tend to agree with you about the names, I thought it was the standard and expected thing to do, ...

Today was my first day as an ESL teacher. Yikes! I am at a secondary vocational school in China. I had only one class today, but will have twenty classes/week. My first class was a horror. Fifty students, and many of them were rude, offensive, hostile in manner and disruptive. They couldn't care les...