Well, well, well....look at which school has returned from the dead, or is it returned from the middle of hell?

I saw another ESL site that everyone reads around here that on November 21, 2016 this NOTORIOUS school is urgently looking for THREE teachers for as soon as possible.

Well, well, well, in September, 2016 this school hired three new teachers on one year contracts and after two months, or less, they all have either run away or been fired or both. Also Mr. Yang, the hard-drinking FAO of the school, hates Africans and Filipinos and older people, according to what he tells everyone who will listen, in September, the only people that he could find where a Filipino, an African and a 70-year old British guy. No North Americans, no British, no Irish, no Australians, and no New Zealanders -- the odor of the school has travelled too far. I mean, sweet Jesus, he had to scrape the bottom of his personal "approval" barrel just to get the Filipino, the African and the 70-year old British guy and now they have turned on him -- so fast and so quick.

I won't rehash all the details -- everyone on this board knows just how bad the place is, how horrid the living conditions are, how - 40 C. six months of the year th eclimate, and just what kind of a cold, uncaring, demeaning, abusive, controlling, money-grubbing manager Mr. Yang is. And don't forget that the other teachers in the school are cold, indifferent, uncaring and would walk over you on the street if they don't run you over first.

The living conditions, as we have all heard, are like a slum out of somewhere in black Africa. The furniture has fleas and lice and bedbugs. You will be housed in buildings that should have been torn down, the neighbors are either prostitutes or drunks in most cases, and nobody will care about at all. Should you have an accident, and should you miss school for a week, nobody would miss you. It's that bad.

In dealing with this place for more than 13 years, I can personally assure all readers of this site of the following: If you are thinking about this place for an ESL experience in China, don't. Just don't. Not if you wish to be treated with dignity, to be treated honestly, to be shown respect, etc., etc. Huludao is a small-town fourth-rate backwater Chinese city where winter begins in September and ends in May. Even if you think that you can put with -40 C. for six months at a time, you will soon learn that you can't.

Why doesn't this school just give up? Anyway, Mr. Yang was promoted to two jobs now -- he is the Foreign Affairs Officer of the school and, believe it or not, he is the Breakfast Chef in the Cafeteria. That is the class of person.

Vincent J. Astor
New York