still here... living... teaching... still same tiny "laundry/office" room at the last bus stop of Gaoming... with a toilet on the balcony... air con is broken, so is one of the fans in this room... the fans are screwed into the ceiling, so I have no idea how to reach them, or fix them... Any sort of "housing"/ "building"-related troubles -- whatever the matter is, even when the pipes burst inside the walls of a brand-new building -- that gets blamed on me... so I stopped asking the administration for help... in order not to be blamed for the break-downs inside their own building or equipment...

... the heat in Guangdong gets to the heights that are beyond human comprehension, and yet, none of the classrooms have air-con, and many of the fans are broken in the classrooms... students can't study due to the heat, yet, the school is in session till the middle of July...

Administration has gotten progressively worse -- as to the payments of my salary, at least by a month-long delay, every month... they told me that at the end of this month, I should be able to collect 2-months-worth of salary... Also, the ref letters that I've asked for, in order to have a supposedly secure contract/job around these parts in the future... hmmm... They will hand these papers to me, on my last day here... So... any contract that I would have found, and got hired for, would be lost, due to this administration "passive aggressive" behavior...

Again... caught a lucky break, I do not need this administration for anything -- at least for next year, or the near future... Hopefully, won't need them ever again, during my life-time... just bidding my time, and patiently packing my suit-case... Got accepted into grad school in the U.S., and going back to get my MA... Hopefully, other EFL teachers will pay close attention to my description of this polytechnic, and will not sign any contracts with them in the future... Thanks to the advice of other teachers on this board, I was able to live thru this year... Thank you for your support.