More about Yuncheng TAs:

First and foremost, they are all dishonest and will tell lies even when it is unnecessary to do so.

Second, most are villagers who have studied English at Yuncheng University, the former Yuncheng Teacher-Training College.

Third, most are plain-looking. Occasionally, there is a pretty TA assigned to a young FT. She will be berated in the street whenever she assists you, so she won't want to accompany you. Passers-by will probably call her a traitor or a whore, even in Yuncheng City. The plain lookers do not like walking. They will sit down at the side of the street on newspapers while the two FTs have a chat waiting for them to recover. I don't think their sitting there creates a good impression among the locals.

Last but not least, if a TA is not a local in your county, she will probably run off to Yuncheng every weekend leaving you on your tod in the county. She will want to prepare the following week's lesson with you each Friday. Refuse to do so. Instead, tell her it will be done on Sundays, when she returns from 'civilisation'.

I agree with what you say.

Some more to say:

Some are former Yuncheng Normal College students, while others have arrived from Datong, Taiyuan or neighbouring provinces. They can be very wily. For example, one of them rented a room to locals while still residing with her parents. She claimed the rent for herself from the company. The company found out about her deceipt and fired her. However, she was reinstated within a fortnight.

If you befriend your TA, you can get to know all the gossip that has been passed around in Yuncheng about the other foreigners. Buying her a dinner once a month works wonders! She will prefer a doinner to a lunch because fewer locals will see you with her on account of the darkness.

Some of the TAs are very lazy, so lazy that they won't clear the PC of a foreign teacher's personal details, after having promised an FT to do so, thus allowing the new job encumbent to mine personal information! Don't supply the agent with your e-mail address. Open a 2nd email address. Chances are head office will carelessly compromise your privacy by e-mailing a general notice to all FTs, but showing the emails of all the FTs to each recipient.

Finally, some FTs ae dumb enough to wear high heels to school. One of them came a cropper when doing so. She stumbled badly on the stairs and was lucky not to have broken her (pretty) neck!