Thanks for posting this update and clarifying some of the changes (and also Jay's actual situation). Carrie Zhang was on the teaching staff when I was there, and she was an absolutely lovely person. In fact, I had little problem with the English Dept. (mainly the Foreign Affairs department) except for doubling up classes (I was teaching 16 hours, but I had to teach 2 classes at one time -- over 100 students -- that was a lot of time spent grading essays, etc. since it was writing and other content classes). Aside from that, the English Dept. was great. It was mainly the transportation/housing/safety issues and the dreadful FAO's. I'm guessing it'll probably be a good 3 to 5 years before civilization works its way out to where the school is and on-campus housing becomes available -- until then, with only about 1000 for living allowances, FTs will have to spend about 2/5 of their salary to get a decent apt. in Sanya or live in squalid conditions.