LIAONING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, Department of International Studies in JinZhou, Liaoning Province, China and ESL Consultant China (the e-mail they use is: workinchina2011@gmail.com)

AVOID THESE CRIMINALS AT ALL COSTS!

ESL Consultants lied to me about everything from Day 1, except I didn't find out until I was already trapped in China! I am an American born physician, living in Europe, I wanted to take a break from the daily grind of being a physician and see the far east, so I was promised a position teaching Medical English to Medical Students at the University by ESL Consulting China. They promised me 8,000 RMB a month in a written contract, sent me photos of a beautiful flat that would be mine and when I got to Beijing, no one was at the Beijing Airport to pick me up! Jinzhou is another 6 hours north-east by train and no one speaks English or they pretend they don't - everyone just yells louder at you in Chinese when you tell them you don't understand! I finally made it to Jinzhou, which is the anus of the world - I have never been in a filthier city in all my life! I was taken to student housing and dropped off in a room with no heating (this was Dec. 21, 2011 and it was -10C outside) paint and plaster was coming off the walls and left there.

The next day I met the head Criminal Communist, the Dean of International Studies of Liaoning Medical University, a Liang Zhongbao (calls himself Paul, mobile number +86-137-0006-8890) at a dinner. After he got a lot of horrible Chinese Alcohol into himself, I asked him where was the flat I was promised in the photos from ESL and because he was intoxicated, he told me "We just use those photos to get you here!!!!" I also asked for extra heating, he told me "put on more clothes and tights (like women wear) and we will give you a blanket, you don't need any more heat - we Chinese live like this"!!

The day AFTER the dinner, I was left alone, no information on where to exchange money, where to buy food, I had no refrigerator or kitchen facilities in my "room" (as that all it was)! The filthy cesspool of a kitchen was so dirty in the student building I wouldn't cook for a pig in there. Electricity is shut off in the student housing at 23:00 and comes back on at 07:00 - I was told because that is the time I am supposed to be asleep! The school closed for winter break and there was no place to even buy food! I am a physician, I am never sick and I had immunised myself against Influenza before I left Europe, just in case. On my third day in China, even though I was immunised, I got the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, where my fever skyrocketed to 43.3C and I had to go outside onto a balcony to cool my fever, it was -28C outside and I could have died. Luckily I had medicines with me which saved my life, but the pain from the HPAI Influenza was horrendous! I was sick for the entire 71 day stay. No matter where I ate or if I cooked for myself (I finally got a microwave and tiny refrigerator from them) I got sick from the food. They still eat dogs in that city (I was told this by several Chinese and an Expat American I met there) so I recommend you do not go anywhere near open food stands. I was paid once and only 5,000 RMB and they told me I wouldn't get the 8,000 RMB until March - maybe, if the Dean decided I could. I taught for only 2 weeks, but they were contracted to pay me for the full month at the end of each month, regardless of how much I was assigned to teach. I finally told them I had to leave due to a family emergency and they said "then we won't give you your salary so you come back!" This was told to me not by "Paul" but his little Communist Henchman Xi Yanzhe (calls himself Kevin - mobile number +86-137-0006-1837) and when I told them they were violating the contract, the little Chinaman became verbally aggressive.

I bought a flight out of Beijing and got out of the school 4 days later and took the express train back to Beijing. At the Beijing Airport my bags were torn open, things were taken away from me at random by a Policeman (they took some of my new American clothes and souvenirs I was taking home for my children) so the school probably contacted the Communist Police and had them steal from me. I naturally had done nothing wrong so all they could do was steal from me and say I couldn't take out a Chinese doll out of the country and the clothes were taken because they said I bought them in China and I had to pay a tax for them, as they exported them to the USA (they were brand-new American Docker Pants). I said nothing, I wasn't going to argue with a Communist Policeman with a gun but I had my cell-phone in my hand with the Emergency U.S. Embassy in Beijing telephone number on the screen ready to be dialed and call for rescue! I let them steal over 200 Euros worth of items, I was finally allowed to go through customs with no further problems in Moscow or London (of course).

I will NEVER set foot back in that sewer of a school or city again. The City of Jinzhou is a coal-fired city, all the heating is by coal so it is filthy dirty. There is absolutely nothing to do except one stupid Karaoke Bar, which is all they do. There are no movie theatres, no clubs, no pubs and no television in English, they have two channels at the school - Communist Army and some soap opera, all in Chinese of course. The Internet is blocked by the Communists so you have to use proxy gates to go around the blockades just to get on Facebook! Everyone smokes, including the taxi drivers, inside restaurants, etc. The Liaoning University staff, especially the Dean of International Affairs and his henchman are all liars and dangerous.

The lies and promises made by ESL Consultants were just that - ALL LIES! Stay away from them at ALL COSTS! The City of Jinzhou is the filthiest city in all of China and I was sick the entire 71 days I was there! Liaoning Medical University IS NOT on the Sea like they told me, that is over 75 kilometers away - the University is ranked in the world at 5,723 and would be ranked at over 6,000, except they get away with the claim of being by the sea. The "nearby" Great Wall of China I was told was "close by" is over 200 kilometres away!

STAY AWAY FROM THESE TWO ORGANISATIONS!