Wow, DD Dragon brings back memories. I worked for them for a couple of months back in 2005 at the Longwan location (near the Wenzhou airport). The apartment that they supplied was just a room in the "school" (a somewhat larger condo unit) and bathroom shower was the bathroom for the classroom. I had no privacy and there was no support for me. The "school" had very few materials to teach with and many of the cue cards were missing. The Chinese staff there were improvising everything and not allowing me to follow the curriculum that was taught to me in Shanghai. The manager would ferry me all over the city and I ended up teaching classes in primary schools with over 40 children in each class. Being in the primary schools was supposed to be for recruiting but ended up being a permanent situation as a favour to somebody. I ended up getting sick twice in three months (once when I ate some tainted food but went to the special event at the school anyways) and the second time I had lost my voice and had a fever. My girlfriend who is now my wife came over to my apartment to spend some time with me and took me to a restaurant to get me to eat. Apparently somebody saw me and figured I was faking it because I later learned that in China people always stay inside if they are sick. I tried to explain to my boss what happened and he was threatening to fire me. I then called the DD Dragon head office in Shanghai and Steven's wife listened to what I had to say. After I told her everything that was going on she blasted me and told me she would kick me out of China if I complained again. Honestly I can say that I wasn't a stellar teacher but I tried hard. I had hoped that they would give some more support to young teachers just arriving in China in the future but obviously that didn't happen. There are lots of good schools in China and I had friends that worked in a branch in Oubei who liked it there but the fact that head office had that attitude with me as well was inexcusable.