Ey, Santiago! That was very alarming!

OK let me tell you everything. Our contact person is not Teresa Yang. It is a different person. We suppose to go online a little later on our MSN and we will talk about our employment. Since I read a dozen of not-so-nice news about teaching in China.

Our contact person never mentioned that we will be paying her a fee or something like that. We are actually arriving with a tourist visa and she told us that since they are working for the Government in Jilin Province, they will be the ones to work on our Z visas and that would take place in China then,we'll have the visas in a month. As what I have mentioned, we will be paying for the Z visas, our medical check up fee and our residence permit. My husband and I are now very confused. They offered us 3000RMB since we are not native speakers (although we have acquired the American accent and we have the american culture background).

About the teaching demo, our contact person said we need that in order for them to determine what age level we should be teaching (on our previous jobs, we have taught ESL to a preparatory and middle school, and in a company, for young professionals that is). The one week training demo will be unpaid.

Do you think it would be a great thing if I would ask from them a contact number of a person who used to work for their organization/ company? How could I really check their legality? We've never talked about the apartment yet. We've called our contact person last night and we weren't able to talk very long since she is having a holiday dinner with her family. So we scheduled for a chat with her today.

We are very sorry to know about your bad experience and indeed very grateful for helping me and my husband out.

I have been checking about the organization and I can't find anything about it online. We might be visiting the embassy again on Monday and will be asking about the organization. It pays to be safe.

Thanks for everything and I will give a heads up on what is going on regarding our China plans :-)

Take it easy and enjoy your Saturday.