Yep, you are right, they'll even side with one of their own even if you've treated them well and the other person's treated them like rubbish-although, I suppose we have to try and understand that we can escape which isn't the option for many Chinese on 1000 RMB or less. We can easily get another job and get through a bad York School type experience.

On the bright side the Chinese girls are gorgeous, don't you think? The food?.....you can survive on it as long as you don't mind monosodium glutamate(MSG) which they ladle out with gay abandon. The students always ask you if you like Chinese food- my answer is always "it tastes really bad!" I like to see their little faces. I always cook my own grub in China-also bake my own bread, so I have to make sure an oven (little one) is included, from Tesco or Carrefour in my contract. Even if you can get bread it's always too dry.

Baijiu, I can't get enough of it, which is just as well because I'm always being invited out by leaders- I generally stick to prawns and peanuts on these occasions since the round glass table looks like it's laden with the sort of stuff the Klingons eat in Star Trek.

No, never get involved in politics- i personally think they have a pretty fair government-no mean fete handling two billion people.

Lots of good things in China as long as you leave the classroom in the classroom and desist from working for crappy outfits like YORK SCHOOL.