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Texas ISD School Guide
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Just a Concern for English Teachers - A personal story
By:Trygia Borgia

Just wanted to get this out, off my chest. About 8 months ago, I received bombarding harassing emails from a stranger who turned out to be a Chinese "girl" (her gender is questionable due to her manly appearance.) who was acquainted with my ex bf. Well, as most people who have ever been in love know, "ex" doesn't always feel like ex when it has only been a few months, especially when the two of us were still speaking every day for hours and still clearly had strong romantic feelings for each other. We were still very close and we loved each other, regardless of turmoil and pain, in spite of conflicts. Everyone can understand the complexity, I think.
He was working as an English teacher at a Chinese college.

Back to the Chinese student--I will call her Ape Ho. Ape Ho was very obsessed with my ex, and he was afraid of her. She hacked into his computer and started writing to me, pretending to be him! She would write in broken English things like "can't talk u as much since I now with my girlfriend have nice day!" I did not respond back, I ignored her. Then she started sending me messages from her own computer "ARE YOU SHOWING UR BOOBS TO HIM ON WEBCAM?? and ''ARE U HAVING CYBER SEX WITH HIM??"

Of course immediately I knew she is dark, a mean, conniving thing, she's nuts, and she has the morals and conscience of a doorknob. Then she found my msn (obviously things are easy to obtain when you're nuts.)and wrote to me on there. She was obsessed with me too. I don't know why girls have to attack and try to hurt other girls when the other girl has nothing to do with whatever conflict she and a man are having. I was a stranger to her, I had never contacted her, I do not know her motive for harassing me. Maybe she was trying to make me hate my ex, trying to punish him for not wanting her. I was a threat to her trying to pursue him, I guess. She was insanely jealous of me. He wanted nothing to do with her.

After numerous weird emails, I finally lost my temper and told her off. She started stalking my bf and would wait for him after class and follow him home. His credit card went missing, his computer hacked into,his phone texts all read, money stolen. She told the entire campus they were gf/bf, she screamed at him and punched him in front of other students. My bf lived in an apt. complex at the time with thousands of other students, and often left his door unlocked. One Sunday evening I was on the phone with him, when Ape Ho suddenly barged in screaming at him. "WHY U NOT CALL ME BACK? I SENT U 12 TEXTS!! WHY?" Then she pulled the phone cord out of the wall and kicked it across the room, and attacked him. Another teacher across the hall came running in and physically removed her from his place. From the noises I thought she had shot him after the phone went dead. I was truly afraid something had happened to him. I called his friend who lived upstairs and asked him to check on him.

She flooded her Facebook with photos of her out of the shower to show me she took showers with my ex, wrote to me in detail of her many sexcapades, posted pics of various stuffed toys and gifts to make it look as if he bought her love gifts. She threatened to tell things to authorities, get him fired, she demanded money to not go to authorities. She basically ruined his life in China and he did not renew his contract for the following year there.

Lo and behold, she now is on the make for the new white, young American English teacher there. She is a very horny chick, promiscuous, she even posts pics of herself kissing other girls, because she is a pig and she's desperate for male attention. She will do anything for them.

I warned the new teacher about her, telling him to watch his back, watch his cell phone, his wallet, and to make sure he gives his gf a heads up in case Ape Ho finds her contact info and impersonates him. She clearly likes Caucasian American men over Chinese fellows. I do not think she is just out to get a green card, thinking all white men are rich. I think she believes whites are superior and she wishes she was white. She even calls herself "Britta" instead of her given Chinese name. She probably thinks "Britta" must be a cool White chick name because it sounds like Britney(Spears), not realizing that Brita is a friggin' water filter. Chinese think that the more Caucasian a Chinese person looks, the better looking they are. How sad to be ashamed of one's name and heritage. Needless to say, I can't stand her.

She makes me so angry I wish I could punch her. She doesn't care one bit about anyone but herself, and that makes a person frightening. I wish I could contact the school and let them know how dangerous she is to the overseas teachers. I hope she doesn't go to authorities and cry rape or some lie that lands the teacher in a Chinese prison. I have a hunch they would always take the student's side. Before her mad obsession with me and my ex, she had transferred out of another school due to male conflict, and right away at the new school she tried to get into another white teacher's pants, but he somehow managed not to become the target of her lust and rage. Her next target, my bf was not so lucky due to his naive, quiet and friendly nice guy manner. At least now I won't feel guilty if something happens to the new teacher. I warned him. Her pattern isn't going to change anytime soon.


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