September 2004. Hubei Province. China. Three weeks in. I was sitting in the back of a van with the other foreign teachers – in total there were six of us in Dan Jiang Kou (DJK) that year. We were on our way to a city called Shiyan for our medicals. If everything was OK we would each be given our Foreign Expert Certificate. As my time in China passed and I met more and more foreign teachers the word "expert" for many of them became questionable if not downright laughable. Basically, the only criteria needed to come here and teach … Continue reading Working in ‘Communist’ China