Chinarchy

Just Remember It’s China This Sh*t Happens All the Time

by McCoy | 02/24/10 | 2 comments

For the pure irony (that is, I think it’s irony) of it all I’m going to write this post from my placement company’s office. Today has been the most absurd day ever. If we ever forget why we started this blog I think we can look back on today and remember why (although from talking to various people I don’t think we’ll ever forget).

Anyway, today I sat around waiting to hear from the school that Anderson was basically accepted to last night. We were in close contact throughout the day going back and forth on what was going on here in the recruiters offices as well as in the school itself because nobody would tell us anything.

Here are a couple of the conversations that occurred throughout the day:

10 am New Teacher who interviewed with me and Anderson yesterday talking to one of the recruiters: I don’t really think that this is for me so is it okay if I go home? (this was her 2nd day in China)

1215 pm McCoy: I heard the phone conversation this morning. So the head recruiter is going to go down and talk to the headmistress of the school?

Anderson: Forget all that I’m pretty sure the guy under her is about to be deported, and I’m taking over for him. Wait you don’t think that the recruiters…

McCoy: No way. Right, no way?

Anderson: Well we both thought it right?

McCoy: I’m just going to assume that they don’t have that power.

1pm McCoy: So what’s going on [recruiter].

Recruiter: I can’t really say, but you know the guy you met yesterday who used to work for us? He’s being deported.

McCoy: Okay… What for?

Recruiter: Well he got really drunk and broke an ATM. He paid for it and the bank and cops were fine with it but the government has decided to deport him.

130pm Teacher during training: Is there any Chinese mob that we have to worry about?

McCoy (under my breath): yeah the government.

2pm Anderson to McCoy via Gchat: okay teacher 1 is here, and she’s introducing herself to teacher 2… who is about to replace her… wtf…

210pm McCoy via Gchat: is there a Chinese mob somebody just asked

Anderson: government

What is important to recognize here is that the first conversation of the day was a girl explaining how she was in over her head. And then the rest of the day happened.

So I am going to end this post with an explanation of the title of this post. I told my friend, who has been in China on and off for the last 4 years about this. All she could say when I told her was, “just remember, it’s China, this shit happens all the time.”