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jammish
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I definitely wouldn't go on a trip provided by my school if I had to pay for it myself! They'll make you get up at about 6am and spend half the day sitting on buses with people shouting. Then after you get about 30 minutes to see some scenery, they'll take you to some industrial powerplant, which is 'very bewtifooool' (sic).
My own school only ever provided these kind of trips for free for the FTs. They probably knew that nobody would bother going if they charged them.
Actually Chinese tours in general tend to suck for the same reasons. |
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cj750
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Location: Beijing
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Kurochan
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| The school where I am now organized a free trip to Hainan a couple of years ago, which was excellent, except for the constant *beep* and moaning of one of the teachers who went with us |
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Kurochan
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
Posts: 944
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: Gripe |
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Kurochan
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| The school where I am now organized a free trip to Hainan a couple of years ago, which was excellent, except for the constant *beep* and moaning of one of the teachers who went with us |
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He was foreign. Actually, food was a problem on this trip that all the teachers complained about, regardless of nationality -- we were given the same thing at every meal! Other than that, though, the trip was great.
The guy in question also claimed to have been attacked by monkeys on the last school trip to Hainan (despite the Chinese teachers' insistence that the last time they had gone to Monkey Island it had been in the middle of a rainstorm and they hadn't seen any). He also subjected everyone at his dinner table to an hour-long diatribe about pen1s-eating Germans, John Wayne Gacy's perversions, etc. He couldn't be persuaded to change the subject. Yu wasn't there when this happened, but she knows who I'm talking about. |
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Mydnight
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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Location: Guangdong, Dongguan
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Dude, I ain't never even heard of foreigners being offered to go on trips with their host schools or companies. It's more than likely a group tour set up through some travel agency and if that is the case, yes, the Chinese don't have to pay. Why you would have to pay would be because you aren't booked into the tour with the group; that or, someone just wants to rip you off.
One of the companies I'm working for doesn't even get the FTs together for lunches unless they are needed for something...actually, I only personally know like 2 other teachers that work there. They supposedly have 6 or 7 or something. |
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