October 7, 2001

• I just got a teaching job, but I think it was a little more than I have bargained for.  It's going to be very time consuming, I think.  I teach English to university students twice a week, 2.5 hours each.  I'm getting 70 yuan per hour, and this may be upped to 90 yuan per hour or more if I teach well.  We will be debating topics in class such as: human rights vs. the power of the government, which deserves more power, living with someone of the opposite sex before marriage, good or bad, gays and lesbians, good or bad, WTO and business in China...

  
  

  Such topics are really quite interesting, but I have to spend an hour or so every class preparing for it, finding new and difficult vocabulary, finding relevant articles off the net and drawing from my experiences as a Canadian born Chinese.  I want to do a good job, but alas, I was just informed that 70 yuan is on the low side of things.  My friend teaches corporates at a rate of 200 yuan an hour.  My enthusiasm has since waned.  Oh well, I guess I'll just have to look forward to the fact that most of my students will be young female university students.

  
  

  Short and simple.

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