Out of Order
Well…I didn’t get a revised contract tomorrow. Didn’t sign anything. Got me worried. Then the teacher who’s managing my schedule told me that I’d be teaching four classes instead of three and working 24 hours, something the headmaster said was unreasonable and never practiced. Even more worried. The headmaster, who’s going to Canada in two days, is in the city and largely unavailable. Very worried. So I’m doing what I know I should do, taking my stuff to Nanchang city to meet him and if we don’t come to an agreement I’ll hit the road. I doubt he’ll have a contract or even a draft when we meet and I largly expect to piss off after about ten minutes. The situation isn’t helped by not having a kitchen to cook my own food and not being able to use the internet as I wish to manage my other business concerns. It gets frustrating when the computer they put in for me is the only one that cannot access foreign sites and google.com redirects to the Chinese baidu.com search engine.
The staff and students here are great, but if I can’t work with the boss I can’t work at the school. The boss apologized saying that he forgot foreigners put such an emphasis on time and punctuality. I wonder if he knows that packing up and leaving a place quickly when things don’t seem right is a backpacker’s habit?
On another note, I’m planning on putting pictures from my Guizhou adventure online in the next week or so, internet connection permitting.