Well I have to say that I found this message very interesting. I was talking to an ESL teaching colleague last night and she had recently returned from teaching at a school in Indonesia last month. She had been there for a number of years and in fact we talked about her good and bad experiences in teaching there over the years. And guess what the worst place was, the same school, IEC Medan, so I googled that place today and a number of places out of curiousity as I had been thinking of going to Indonesia myself when my current contract finishes. This is what I found and I must say that I had a very interesting read. Oh teacher, you should have not deleted that original thread. I can understand why you would like to forget about such a bad experience and a ridiculous reply from what appears, its A.C. I also found information about this place on daves esl cafe and a similar kind of story from a few years ago. Just goes to show it is worth doing research on schools before signing contracts with places like this school IEC, Medan, shame on them and shame on more teachers for not taking the time out to write reviews about schools who have you working illegally in their countries, putting you in accomodation that is regularly broken into (daves esl said that the security guards employed at IEC were suspected in that), not fulfilling promises and sending teachers fake return air tickets to fool immigration. What a nerve some schools have. Just writing this upsets my stomach.......