I am also a teacher at Ivy. I agree with Adam and other current teachers who have posted on this site. Ivy is a wonderful school in Jiamusi. There was a previous teacher who "lived like a pig" and it is because of this one person, apartment inspections are currently performed. If that person had not been such a "pig" inspections would not be required. The Director at Ivy school is an incredibly wonderful, caring and giving Chinese woman who looks after the foreign English teachers like they were her family. This is my first experience teaching abroad and I am extremely pleased with Ivy. I don't think that a person could do much better than teaching at Ivy. Also, the teacher who "lived like a pig" also physically destroyed property at his apartment upon his departure from the school. I never had the "pleasure" of meeting this individual, but he sounds like a real "class act". The current group of teachers at Ivy are an incredibly professional group of individuals and I am proud to say that I am a teacher at this school and I would highly recommend it to anyone.