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mat chen · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 494 Location: xiangtan hunan

The best place to work in China. Long term contracts where over 20 foreign teachers have been here for as long as the school has been in existance. You recieve your pay on exactly on the same day every month with written records. There are no hidden expences that you will be expected to pay at the end of your contract. You will be supplied with a curriculum and the classes are located within a short walking distance. Recruiters are paid and you will not have to lie to them about not signing a contract with the school. The FAO Mr Huang is a man of integretity, who will do everything he can to make your stay here a joyous one. And if you believe this I have some property in South Florida you might be interested in purchasing.

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject: Your point being...?

Your point being...?

mat chen · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 494 Location: xiangtan hunan

My point being that Mr Hong or Huang ( Mr.Yellow) is one the hardest working benevolent FAOs in China. Because of this it is very hard to get a job here. Only 19 foreign teachers came here this term to replace the 19 leaving last term. Everyone including students studying Chinese loves the care he has provided.

Chris_Crossley

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

Hi Chris. Um, if you re-read Mat's first post, I think you might notice a little line about property in South Florida. I think Mat included that not because he truly holds a deed to salable land/housing in the Sunshine State, but in order to alert us all that he was being sarcastic. As in, all that we read in his post, we should assume is opposite the truth.

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:07 pm Post subject: Property in South Florida

Actually, I did notice the line about the property in South Florida, but who knows if all the 19 ex-teachers have properties there? Wink

Seriously, though, it's clear that there is a problem with high FT turnover that mat chen is highlighting, and one wonders what, if anything, has happened to this thoroughly "benevolent" FAO!

What with this country being China, though, there may be an element of guanxi that could have saved this FAO from being given the opportunity not only of purchasing property in South Florida himself, but even of going there permanently! Then, again, it is likely that property in the easternmost part of Siberia would be far cheaper, especially if built on the site of a former gulag! Russian visas are probably far cheaper, too! Laughing

If Members of the UK Parliament screw things up, though, they still more or less manage to keep hold of their �1,000,000+ second homes in central London; if, on the other hand, Chinese FAOs screw things up to such an extent that 19 FTs feel compelled to quit or else not renew their contacts, they may still be lucky enough to keep their little room on campus!

LoPresto · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 87

Personally, I think "mat chen" is a spy.

Why? Because over the past few years here in China, no one has ever asked me about Human Rights, especially in university classes.

Don't give him/her your time.

Perhaps he was one of the "trainees"?

Chris_Crossley

LoPresto · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 87

I guess a good question now is - Why are you back?

http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=486380&highlight=#486380

2006.

Beyond that - please come up with your own material, others.

The Jack has balls and he isn't the King. Why?

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: Back - or never gone away?

I see that mat chen's location is currently given as (still) being in Xiangtan, that's true, but perhaps it's not a question of his being "back" - maybe he's never left!

Mind you, if I were him, I'd head back to my pad in South Florida! Very Happy

LoPresto · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 87

I once lived in Chengdu for 16 days, perhaps I'll list that as my location as well as make comments about affairs in Korea.

In the end, it really doesn't matter.

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject: I came back earlier, actually!

LoPresto · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 87

You misunderstood my quote. I meant - why haven't you posted on Dave's in 3 years?

As for your child - I vividly recall seeing pictures of her on this website after 2003. I'm not a math major, but 2003 + 3 = 2006. It is now 2009. What happened to the past 3 years? According to my math, your daughter is 6 now.

Yunqi

Chris_Crossley

Aha! You spotted it! Guilty as charged!

Well, to be honest, by December '06, I had felt that I had said everything that I could possibly say on the EFL front because my job at the time (which I am still doing, by the way) involves teaching English for Academic Purposes at a specialist training centre rather than, say, at a run-of-the-mill state university with 100+ bored students seated in a room, and so I decided to "retire".

In any case, between January '06 and December '08, I did have my master's degree study to occupy my spare time, so I concentrated on that!

Now, curiously, I find myself eager to "come out of retirement" and once more make contributions to these forums, notwithstanding the total lack of change in rank or function in the last three years in my line of work - not that I am complaining, though.

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder and I find that making further contributions still interests me! Having said that, I am now preparing for my wife to give birth to our second child within the next few weeks so I am guessing that I will be fully preoccupied with "other things" once more! How time flies!

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject: My daughter