Yep, its true. Our life in China is officially soap opera caliber. We've asked for a partial refund for Beach Chinese, for starters, for the month of August. This is because the owner basically fled to Shanghai and left us wondering what is going on, and while he claims he is coming back, we are not satisfied enough to wait around to figure it out. We have learned a lot of Mandarin so by that as the only measure of success, we have been successful here. For more details, such as the owner also bailing on his fiancee 3 days before their wedding and then she flew up to find him in another city etc, you'll have to wait for the made-for-TV movie.
Meanwhile the teachers are willing to work directly with us and directly with the kids if we want to. But we have visitors now and more travel planned to Beijing and Shanghai and Hong Kong, and my parents are coming over for 10 days or so of fun, so really it is all working out just fine. If it were not for the ridiculously large Niko Partners work load this summer, due in fact to it's own work oriented soap opera, we might actually be having a lot of fun! Right now it is fun, work, figuring out a new schedule and new plan for meals, and planning for our travel.
I might also have a mild case of post traumatic stress disorder from all of the soap opera stuff and from the typhoon, but it probably is just a little stress. Nothing that a bottle of CALIFORNIA wine couldn't solve, but alas the Great Wall Red that tastes like Sudafed really didn't do the trick ;-).
Still, we have no regrets for doing this summer adventure! As I type this, Oscar is marching around talking in Chinese as he plays airport and airplane, so really, I think this is a very cool experience for all.
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