Maria: I just paid 322 Yuan this afternoon for YOUR phone bill. You worked in my school only 3 weeks and you made soooooo high phone bill, and I still dont know how high your water and electricity bills will be. You didnt pay us 800 $ which you should pay. So be quite. You should know you owe the school. You left the school a lot of mess. And now you are keeping badmouthing my school. What kind of lady you are!

I have experienced that bills for utilities were never shown to foreign teachers stating the exact amount for phone calls, where and for how long. There are are some suspicions that the officials or staff who collect the bills have a second income to overcharge foreign teachers when asking them to pay for utilities. The same for other utilities like electricity, gas, or whatever.

800 $ for utlilities in China is a very huge amount, and no foreign teacher would be prepared to pay it just because you demand it. You know, in our part of the world we also pay for all these utilities ourselves but we get bills that we can check as to their accuracy and we have the right to complain if there is something wrong in the bill. If you expect a foreign teacher to take your high fantasy bills just for granted, your expectations are wrong!

Learn from the West, mate!