Aloha guys...my two cents Honolulu style.

I wanted to go to China to be with my girlfriend who lived in Jinzhou, near Huludao. I saw Yang's advert. It took Yang almost 4 or 5 months to process all of papers (simple case, white guy, male, certified teacher, TESOL, MA, gob of heenah heenah experience). First time, wrong passport number. Second time, wrong name. Third time, OK! This went on from late May until early October.

I arrived in Huludao on October 8. Yang told me that I had to make up all the classes from September. Something like 100 classes. I worked for three months with the schedule from hell. Yang was rude, unfriendly and uncaring the entire time. Then I got mugged and robbed in my building by a couple of Huludao thugs looking for easy laowai cash. I spent 10 days in the hospital. I had to make up 20 more classes. Another lady wrote that Yang came to school so drunk that he couldn't stand up. I was there on that occasion, or at least a on similar occasion.

The apartment s*cked. I also lived in that filthy seventh-floor walk up that someone else talked about here.

But this was the clincher. At Christmas, a day off under the contract, he told me that I had to dress up like Santa Claus, Andy Warhol style, and parade around the school throwing out candies and then stand in front of the school all day so that the locals could look at me and laugh.

No way. I gave him my bye bye notice that very day. I left a week later. I didn't bother to say good bye to him.

I am glad that he couldn't find anyone. He doesn't deserve to find anyone.