Sunday, July 29, 2007

I need to paint my skin...

We talked to an Australian who's teaching science in a private school here. He confirmed that anyone but east Asian looking people can easily find a lucrative teaching job here. When he was teaching in Beijing, he had this Uzbek girl and a Russian teaching English, with very bad accent. An other African man claimed he's African American and got a good teaching job. He was caught after a while because someone who was smart caught him teaching the wrong thing. I confirmed with another American who's teaching international school here that the Korean and Japanese parents don't want their kids to have English tutors who are Asians.

We also learned that Americans who returned home after living in Beijing for a few years were told by doctors to quit smoking. They said but we don't smoke! It's from the polluted air.

1 comment:

Stella said...

The air in BJ IS totally polluted with no doubt... that's why I dont' like this city