WOW that's one more original use for a foreign teacher's apartment. I have heard/experienced foreign teachers sleeping on sofas, relatives of the boss/owner staying with the foreign teacher AT THE FOREIGN TEACHER'S apartment, owner's baby peeing all over the foreign teacher's floor, etc. Now the use of a foreign teacher's apartment as a lounging area, what's next letting the spoiled kid of the owner/boss bring all of his pet animals into the teachers' apartments and run a private zoo there?!?!
Oh wait, I forgot these "schools" are zoos. I really should have borrowed Turnoi's white crocodile when I was living in those apartments. Ahh to be treated like a wet food stamp, those were the days!
I would avoid any kindergarten anyway, but especially so any with the last name of CASTLE, a stupid name anyway. I will reiterate what silverboy, turnoi and others have MANY many times on these boards...simply avoid working for these places, make yourself happier, find a good public gig, make your own lesson plans, and hopefully these places will go down the tubes...
Cheers and sangrias,
Bullring
Save yourself from falling into the pit of this school: Green Castle Kindergarten
Binzhou city (Huanghe 5 Lu, Bohai 18 Lu),Shandong Province. It's managed by a couple
named Henry and Annie.They DO NOT have the permit to hire
foreign teachers. They will deduct 1000 - 1500 from you salary and tell you
it's a retention fee. A new school, just started operation around May last
year. Their two foreign teachers left ( a Filipino and a Zimbabwean) after the
school messed up with their visas and salaries. They (Henry and Annie) are an expert in the
field of cheating and mendacity, and both possess a pugnacious attitude.
Oh, the apartment they will give the foreigners is big though, only that, it
also serve as the resting/napping/siesta room of the Chinese teachers
during the afternoon break for they are not allowed to stay in the
kindergarten on those times.
Beware of this school!