Trip to Shanghai

Just spent a week in Shanghai to get properly certified to teach here. It turns out that teaching without two years of experience or without going to (and passing) this week long class is illegal and the PRC will ship you home if you don't have the certification.

Everybody in the class had already been teaching. I'm an illegal worker and I'm taking jobs.

Seriously, one guy in the class had been here three years, and had never once had a problem. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

I'm getting settled into my apartment. When I got back to Suzhou after the class I met my roommate, who is Australian and who is not insane, which is a quality I look for in a roommate.

There are no open container laws here. It's so strange for a guy from a dry county (no alcohol sells period) to see people walking down the street in suits drinking clear alcohol (possibly baijiu) at 10:00 AM.

They don't have wishing wells here.

These two pictures are from when I was lost in Shanghai.