hi there, tough situation. Your principles are admirable.
I'm saving roughly 1,500 US dollars a month in Korea. Is there enough pay in China to set some money aside for emergency-situations like this one? Your post is bad news for those planning to teach in China. Scary....low salaries. Mainly for repatriation after completition of work./ Sorry, no better answer, try contacting local papers. Works in korea.

Rick

> To those who can offer me advice, my situation might get a little out
> of hand in a couple days, and I need to know if there any options I
> have before I go in for a meeting on July 5th. My boss asked me to
> help him make a video of me teaching so he could show people he still
> had a Canadian teacher teaching at his school when in fact the day he
> asked me (June 30th) it was my last day. There is now a Bulgarian
> teacher working at the school to take my job, but the fact that he's
> Bulgarian is being concealed from the parents whose kids are
> attending the kindergarten. I didn't want to participate in someone's
> lie, so I said no to the video for moral reasons. He has turned his
> back on me, and when I go to the school on July 5th to collect the
> remainder of the money he owes me contractually I have the impression
> he is going to with hold the money from me by saying my refusal was
> in breach of the contract. I am in Harbin city, and have already
> received a plane ticket back to Canada for the 21st of July, but it
> leaves from Beijing. If I don't get the last of the money I would get
> for working, I not only don't have enough to live on for the rest of
> the month, but also to get to Beijing to make my flight. I have
> already made arrangements with friends to assure that I get to
> Beijing for the flight, so I'm writing to see if there is anyone out
> there who can offer any advice pertaining to my situation. Are there
> any cards that I have that I possibly do not know about? Any help on
> this would be appreciated. Contact me at my email address asap. Thank
> you for your time.