I should mention one terrible thing that happened to me while I was teaching at a college with a 'back-dated Z visa' conversion from L.I had supplied the college waiban with originals of my degree,teacher-training college certificate and enhanced disclosure police check,as requested.Guess what,the only one I was ever able to get back was my degree!There were not even any photocopies taken of the other two.The college waiban,who was a Christian,then defended herself by stating that I had only given her my degree.I told the college president that whatever others said I knew the true situation.Then I cursed them all.
Not too long after that another foreign teacher who happened to be my hometown fellow arrived.He submitted a lawyer's letter written by his solicitor.It stated that he was a person of good character who had never been in serious trouble with the police.It was accepted by the provincial education office!They issued a foreign experts' certificate to him.But not long after he started teaching,he was touching the more beautiful of his freshers.My students said that he was a 'toucher',not a teacher.I pointed out that there was no such word in English,but the meaning was clear.Because the girl students in his class were afraid of the old man,it was not long before they all moved to the back of their classroom.He was into kissing girl students' and women's hands,so my wife always wore gloves when she knew she would be meeting him.One morning he was drunk in class and mooned to his students.Not surprisingly there was a mass exodus of his students to the college president's office.A little later he was hauled over the coals,but not fired!A few days after,I learned that the old rascal only had a certificate for taking 2 night class subjects,and had been a farmer!At the end of the academic year the old man was invited to the college end-of-term lunch.He brought a young Chinese woman who smoked and drank excessively wit him.I could only assume her to be a 'lady of the night'.During the meal he collapsed onto the floor as he was much the worse for wear.His lady friend and I helped him get home in one piece. Because of what had happened to me re my certificates earlier,I had no sympathy whatsoever for the college.Quite the contrary,I had a good laugh about everything.They had got their just desserts!