Nee-how China!!

August 26th, 2009

We're here!!!! Foshan, China. I'm not sure where to start.... I think we're really lucky that we showed up a few days before school starts because we're getting to meet all the teachers that taught last year before they leave in a few days. Everyone's telling us ALL the gossip about the school and about all the bullshit that they had to deal with everyday. We know that all Chinese schools dick teachers around so nothing has been toooooo surprising yet.

Day 1: We took a 2-hour ferry from Hong Kong to Shunde. My favorite part was when we were about to dock and about 20 people got up and stood by the door. The staff must have asked them to sit down 100 times and they flat out refused. The staff asked over and over and over again and the people just turned their backs on them and looked out the window!! Crazy Chinese people!!

My first impression of mainland China involved shoving. Lots of shoving. As we got off the ferry and entered the immigration building, we were being shoved into walls, stepped on and elbowed in the ribs over and over again. It was ruthless! I laughed so hard! Picture a billion year old, 4’ 8” tall Chinese grandma shoving Brandon into a wall - hilarious!!!!!

After we got through immigration we met our school's "living advisor," Ken, who is SO WEIRD!!!!! He keeps blatantly lying to us about stuff in our contracts and he's so weird about never looking us in the eye. He stairs over our shoulder - it reminds me of someone with a lazy eye but he doesn't have one. The weirdest thing that he did was when we unloaded all of our bags he said "is anyone missing something?" We said "ummmmmmm.... what did you find?" -- he wouldn't tell us - he said that he wouldn't give us the "item" unless we knew what it was. WHAT?!? We obviously hadn't unpacked so we didn't know if we dropped anything!!! We got lucky because brandon caught a look at what he was hiding and it was Nelly's MP3 player!! Then, he didn't believe us that it was Nelly’s. Long story short, we got it back but it was still SO WEIRD!!!!!!! Who does that? We told all the other teachers about what Ken did and they thought it was totally typical and they all had their own stories about him.