Hello Michael Stewart, first things first who the hell are you? and how do you know me, my girlfriend Tharaen or the situation that we experienced in China?

I read your comments about Tharaen and you speak as though you know her, and you give me advice . .. me advice, when i havent even meet you . . . .

Tharaen posted comments about a school that we taught at for just over nine months, notice that i am using past tense her, meaning that we were there before you, meaning that the school could have changed once we left.

Her comments were not personal attacks, they were informative opinions on her time with Ming Shi American English school and warnings to any future teachers thinking of going there.

It amazes me that you feel it appropriate to make personal attacks about someone you know nothing about, then I imagine that you may feel you know her and myself from stories told by the other foreigners and chinese teachers and the owner, however i promise you that many of these stories are very one sided and untrue accounts. I say this as in our time at Ming Shi we were constantly told "things" about past teachers, students and current teachers that were just untrue, and this was proven to us by our own knowledge of the person and by getting to know our students very well, and you must agree that it is easier to believe your mature adult student than your boss who of course is interested in keeping you teaching and "happy".

Another great example is what happened after we left. When we were there we were always told how great we were as teachers and as people, by the owner, teachers and students, after we left we found that our names were tarnished and were being thrown around in emails by the "father foreign teacher" commenting on how bad Tharaen was as a teacher, how we set new teachers up for failure, stirred trouble amongst the foreigners and so on. We know this because we were then and still are now friends with the other foreign teachers who were still teaching there so they would send us the emails they recieved trashing us, and we would wonder what we should do with these emails, if Tharaen was a "little immature person" as you say she is then she wouldve sent abusive emails to the people saying abusive things about us, however we decided to leave the past in the past, and to just help warn other teachers of the possible perils of teaching with Ming Shi American English school.

So Michael, how are you finding MIng Shi now, is it still wonderfull, have there been any little incidents yet or are you still loving it all. I hope that Ming Shi fixed some of the errors and faults they had, and know this, any faults they did fix is because someone pointed it out to them as a fault.

The last thing i would like to say is that I did enjoy my time teaching with Ming Shi American English School, however it was not a perfect school, with perfect people, it was a very real experience of what China has to offer, similiar to the experiences had by many foreigners who decide to teach in China, and something that some unsuspecting people who expect what they are told to be what they get, need to be warned about.

I hope to hear back from you Michael

Regards the man who should do himself a "favour and get out" and who is deserving of such pity

Derek