It amazes me there are so many just running on fumes...but well China attracts them..........

I've been following the Kiwi's trials and tribulations on another teachers' forum. He says he has taught in China for seven years, and was cheated by a Beijing agency. He has no degree, but does have a TEFL qualification, and was teaching on an F visa in Beijing when he hit financial problems. His passport was almost out of blank pages, and he was due to lose his rented accommodation, as he was basically working freelance, and only getting occasional classes through his wily agent, who held onto his passport, causing him problems.
Back home, he says he was abused by his parents as a young boy, and would dread a reunion with them. The NZ Embassy in Beijing has managed to get the Foreign Affairs Bureau in Beijing to agree to waive his fine for working illegally and cancel his business visa, replacing it with a short-term visa, if he turned himself in voluntarily. But the embassy won't buy his air ticket either to Hong Kong or to New Zealand, although they will help him to try to obtain funds from his friends/relatives/NZ businesspeople in China. He says he'd rather not go back to New Zealand, as there's nothing for him there employment-wise. He would prefer to go to HK, and re-enter the mainland to take up a new teaching job. Right now, he's asking online for financial assistance to help him achieve this, but his embassy does not want him to go to HK. He turned himself in, but if he's not out of China within a few days, he'll be detained, and subsequently deported at his embassy's expense. A five-year ban for his re-entry into China will also be imposed. He is dreading detention in China. A sad tale, indeed. It seems no white knight has appeared yet to help him get on his feet. I feel sorry for him.