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[piglet44]

Has anyone worked at THE Soochow Uni (downtown campus I was told)?
I am supposedly getting English majors 1st and 2nd year? Also how cold is SZ in the winter and will the classrooms be perishingly cold as they were in HZ?
Also piggybacking on my own.. what's better HZ,SZ or Xiamen suburbs?
All much the same in terms of hours,salary and apartment offers.
Thx

[kungfuman]

Are you working for the university directly or for one of the Canadian sub schools? It makes a difference.

[piglet44]

English majors in the foreign lang dept of the School proper.. so what can you tell me?

[kungfuman]

Worked there for two years. All my classrooms were climate controlled but often you have to battle the student to get control. The don't like it cool in the summer and set it to way too hot in the winter.

The school itself is a nice old campus. They have apartments for the teachers but I lived off campus and they paid for it.

Students are typical Chinese students. Campus is part of the downtown and Suzhou is easy to navigate. Subway stops in front of the school now and makes travel very easy.

[piglet44]

Ok thanks how about the cold? People are scaring me about lack of heating in winter there.

[kungfuman]

It's China. It gets cold. We live. Nothing to worry about here. Depending how you live your apartment might have great heating or shitty heating. Regardless there are plenty of ways to keep warm

[3701 W.119th]

The second it drops below 25 C outside (which is really very hot, in Britain), my centre cranks up the heating full boot, and turns off the air-con. It's horrible. Stifling heat.

I'd kill for a cold classroom.