Oh MY God! It certainly sounds like you'd be doing Chinese youth a favour if you could cut your hours down to a minimum. And you have a mouth of a fishmonger's wife......you'd make a sailor blush. If I were were your hubby I'd take a stick to you.......deary, deary me.

Listen, little miss clever clogs, teaching oral English in China is not a proper job, so there wouldn't be any sense if the hours corresponded to the hours demanded of doing a proper job; 14 or 15 hours is more than enough.

It is you who needs to get in touch with the real world, you are only on a working holiday teaching oral English. Get real. Qualified teachers get pensions and other benefits, didn't you know? I can't see the shabby enterprise you work for offering you a pension for your knowledge of imparting "pretty freaking easy" Stop moaning and start enjoying the long holiday.