I thought I was unfortunate enough to end up working in Songyuan at one of the other schools. There is nothing to do in Songyuan except meeting with the few foreign teachers from the other schools for a drink, because there was nothing else to do in the city. The teachers from Songyuan Foreign Studies college did nothing but bitch and complain about everything and anything. After a while, we got around to talking about contracts, my school paid on average 2,000RMB for less hours then then their school, we also got two consecutive days off a week compared to their one day. We also taught managable class sizes, where they taught more then 100 students at a time, and we were not forced to do compulsory overtime with 30 minutes notice. They showed me their scheduels and were supposed to work seven days a week, and even teach two different lessons at a time and they explained this was the norm. We also had, our own apartments furnished to a decent living standard unlike our friends from SFSC, who had to share apartments with one or two other people with substandard fixtures and furnishings. They also told us about the school not caring about quality education, most of their English teachers being second language speakers. When asked, a teacher from Russia who told me, he had been instructed to say he was from Canada. One of the guys I used to drink with regular did a midnight runner (up and left at night without giving any notice)after finally getting his passport back after threats of phoning his respective Embassy. He left because his apartment had been robbed while he was away for a few days, it had not been broken into, it had been opened by a key, and could not take anymore.