Regarding the Walton blurb, well, let's just say that Guangzhou and Huadu in particular are littered with Walton refugees, runaways and exiles.

There is only native English speaking person, a lady, to my knowledge, that might still be around at the school after one year, only one. Everyone else has either run away, been fired, or just melted into the woodwork so to speak.

Do not believe much of what this poster has written.

You will live in a shared apartment, Soviet-style and the apartments are decidedly not nice at all. Your roommates will pilfer everything and anything from you and you will spend a great deal of your pay to replace what they have pilfered. You will pay for electricity and the like and the owners just love to gouge the FT's for these charges.

Do you love endless-and-mindless meetings that eat away at your free time and reduce it to nothing -- and for which meetings you are not paid? Then this is the place for you. Oh, did I forget to mention that if you don't attend these endless-and-mindless meetings, your pay will be docked a great deal?

Do you like to be screamed at? Lied to? Do you want to have to work illegally in China? Then this is the place for you. The school does not have the authorization to hire foreign teachers...so you will be forced to work on all kinds of improper visas and if you are got, well, the owner will blame it all on you...and oh, did I forget to mention that you will have to make either the Hong Kong run or the Macau run for your visas on your own dollar?

Next, you will be most teaching all the over place, and usually in schools in which all of the other foreign teachers from all of the other agencies in Huadu will not go. Of course your day will start at 05h00 in the morning when you have to get up and end at 21h00 when you will return home from your travels or from your endless-and-mindless meetings.

Walton is INFAMOUS in Huadu and in that part of Guangzhou as a school to avoid. Sam the owner is a Taiwanese shark and if you like swimming with sharks, then please swim here. And if that's not good enough, his charming wife is quite the piranha.

So, in the end, I only want to ask the previous poster how much he or she was paid to write the blurb?

For the rest of you, well, just don't even consider it.