Somebody herein talked about Africans in the Huludao Primary School and Fred Yang.

I worked there from 2007 - 2010 (mid-term), about 3.5 years. I was the longest serving African (I'm from Ghana) in the school. I was think that I was the longest serving foreign teacher.

The deal with the Africans was really corrupt. Yang paid me RMB 4,000 per month for year one. I had to kick back to him RMB 2,000 every month or he would cancel my visa and tear up the contract. The second year he paid me RMB 5,000 per month. I had to kick back to him RMBM 2,500 every month or the same above. Year three, as a result of the parents' compliments and my good student rapport, they upped my salary to RMB 6,500 per month. At least on paper, I had to kick back to him RMB 4,000 every month.

I did. I still managed to live cheaply and save money. I was able to send money back to Ghana to my family. But I became bitter, like someone else here wrote, about the kick back system. I felt like he was a poobah and I was on a plantation.

I told him how I felt. At the end of the term, he fired me because of "student complaints" and gave me 72 hours to leave.

That year, however, something strange happened in Huludao. The Huludao PSB said that one of the other Africans in Huludao was dealing drugs, a guy from Nigeria. So at the same time I was leaving, the Huludao PSB decided that there would be no more "blacks" in Huludao. They cancelled all of the visas for all the Africans in Huludao. So I would have had to leave anyway.

MRO