Dear Felix:

Thanks for the understanding you rendered. As a matter of fact. From the very beginning of my being in Yanliang, I had been ready to leave, but I slso wanted to have a survey of that school. Besides the earlier reasons, there were more:
1.Before I went to Yanliang, I had told them the train and time when I'll be there. The first night I arrived at Xi'an train station in the evening. I found there were buses later.They took me to an expensive hotel and let me pay the bill, The next day, I have to search my way to the school about 50 km away. No re-imbursement. Then I found they did have an apartment already ready for my coming.
2.The very first night, I had a class of two students.
3.There were almost nothing ready for me. I have to go to a store with them in the next evening after class for a quilt and a sheet.A couple of days later, two bowls and two plates.
4.A week later was the Oct. 1st. national day vacation. No one arranged anything for me.
5.I have to ask for a water boiler that was over a month later for me to get it.
6.Classes were not schedules. Many times told me 20 or 30 minutes earlier. It took 30 minutes by walking. Tax fares were never mentioned or re-imbursed.
7.Public schools usually never miss my birthday in Nov. Not the private one.
8.Mid-Autumn festival was nothing mentioned or done for me.
9.Since I always corrected students' penmanship, one day I found some first-year students' homework in a public school we catered were signed by their teacher as "aood!" (The 'a' was in capital looked like G),I mentioned that to the head teacher in that level, Mr. Wang, who, instead of apologizing for the mistake, told me that was the only way they taught the students, The capital printed and the 'slanted'. He even demonstrated. Then I found he mistook the cursive capital 'a' as the printed G. From there on, I heard the head of our school, Seldon Wang, mentioned that they, the students and their parents, preferred 'foreign' 'native' teachers.

By then, the school had already had some new foreigners introduced to my classes, I knew the school was going to
kick me out. And for the two months, I hadn't had my luggage unpacked yet. Then I told them I'll leave in Dec.

Sheldon, the chief, did give me a good recommendation letter, but this and all the private schools gave me a very poor impression which will never be forgotten.
Alex