> well, is that prejudice or what? I don't know a lot of Canadians
> either but I will say my small sample(probably as large as doctor
> John's) have made me think that canadians are a very good(and
> healthy) group of people.
> ps I am Not Canadian myself - just a pro-Canadian american

Hi, ESL teachers:

I am a Chinese-Canadian. I have taught more than 15 years in China. 10 before I emigrated, 5 after my retirement from the Canadian Edu system. During my stay, I had never called sick for one day, even if I were really sick. I thought of the difficulty the admin might face, and the discontinuity in my students' learning process.

At the same time, I do appreciate the international spirit you experts all shown in rendering the service in places like most part of the orient where most of everything are much more under the the standards, and eventually be exposed to the dangers of getting sick. I believe whoever said about the canadian were just a joke. Canadians used to have lots of jokes about Newfies. So are the Americans. Ever since the War of 1812, the Americans are trying to get it back from the Canadians. No hard feelings.

Alex Wu