Smartie, I find your post, both, honest and dishonest. Since you've provided us with such an advice, I'll follow with mine as well. Let's spend more to improve professionally than on dining out with ones that do not know what professional means! :)

Local college students need to learn how to improve their academic reading and writing skills. Their writings often lack any cohesion, the main ideas of their sentences or paragraphs are hard to see or even infer and that never mind their poor spelling of words they sometimes do not really know. Not that my writing's great, but I am trying. Smartie, you could try that too. WINK TO YA

To all other readers on, not long ago, in China, the honorable FAOs,Smartie's talking about, were inviting foreign teachers to dinners themsleves. Some of the reasons being then were that such FAOs wanted to learn or practice their English at the table and some that they just wanted to get to know some of the western culture at dinner tables. Also some FAOs were as desperate as they were to keep the foreign teachers invited happy in schools. The situtation has surely changed in past few years, hasn't it? LOL LOL LOL

Cheers and beers to Smartie that makes our forums forums after all