New Job opening day ...

Hi all

We had the official ceremony for the opening of the school last week. Here are some pic for you of the place plus co-teachers and co-workers . Included in the pics is a Filipina girl (Noreen), who was my other foreign teacher. Sad story that I am still annoyed/upset about that the principal didnt think she looked "foreign" enough so fired her. That is the true reason although we had been told a series of bullshit about other reasons why??? I understand it is his business but the circumstances were just awful. I am not going to detail them here but enough to say that as of that day I do not trust the principal now.
The school went to a lot of trouble to dress the place up. And importat people came from head office and around the place. Names I do not know, and also because no one told me what they were or who they were. .. Oh yeah that is another thing I will tell you about sometime soon ... the Chinese communication ways.

Today is offiicially day 14 of my new job. Things seem to have settled quite a bit but a lot has happened in some ways and not a lot in other ways. The actual work I have had to do is minimal so far.
This is a brand new school/franchise so there are not a lot of students yet. I won't bore you with the details of how it works but my role with the students is small initially. So up to now I have spent a lot of time on the internet chatting and surfing the net (as they say here). I know things will pick up as we get more students.
Also there has been little structure about the office. There has been no head of the Teaching Dept until yesterday. And that has made it difficult to understand what they want me to do. The school is a franchise and sells its product to students based on "the franchise system" of learning. So far I have not been asked to go to the training in Hangzhou to know what the hell is the system??. So that is a bit frustrating, I just make up some basic stuff in any class I have had to do. Not hard really because they think everything I say is good because it is English. And the English level of most students is basic at best. Good place to be huh?
So everyday but 2 each week I got to work at 1pm til 9pm and fill the FT(foreign teacher) spot .. so far. I do hope that I will be complaining I am so busy at some point in the not to distant future ...