No, that should be around the other way, I said that Yuncheng's top monitoring person thinks we are praising them. But don't worry, I expect you're like me, you write this stuff late at night after a heavy day when the odd hyphen can easily get misplaced or comma dropped. That was actually a bit of humour, Ian, I am sure you are right and top monitoring person is as bright as a button and on the ball.

Ian, what I know about you and believe is that you are a good all round sort of guy with an English wit a bit on the dry side. I am sure you think you are being totally honest when you tell us how well treated you have been. perhaps you have been fortunate in the placing that the agency has given you- also your accommodation. I don't think you actually know what life is like for the other teachers.

You said you had attended an end of year party where some 30 other ft's were grinning and happy. I bet a good proportion of these teachers were not Westerners at all but recruited from third world countries where expectations are so low that even Yuncheng IELTS can seem a pretty good little number. And of course the agency will pay them even less than you, as unfair to them as this may be.

Ian, when we all look back on our lives if we are honest we realise that we have made a big big mistake about something or other at some stage. Ian, this stage is for you.