Back on track

I have started my new job, it is one of the most expensive schools in China.
I have moved into my new apartment. It is very hard to find apartments here. My girlfriend has done everything for me. She found me the apartment and even put a computer in it.

I have been through a lot of fatigue, trying to cope with the culture shock of so many unexpected surprises. I should be ok here for atleast the next 6 months. I have a more relaxed scheldule now, and i teach good students who want to learn.

If i could explain China in one sentence it would be: China is a different planet!!!!!!!!!
If you try and give advice to somebody, they take it as an insult. Some people will respect you, others could care less about you. You have got to be bold and prove yourself. I don't operate like the chinese. Us foreigners are from the WILD WEST, and we let nobody walk on us!!!!!!!!1

I am tired, i better have dinner now.

Shanghai good update/Making a come back

I have just came back from Shanghai. What an amaizing city!!! It has everything and is so full of growing businesses. Shanghai is a s big as New York mabe bigger.

My training for my new job went well. I have just extended my visa for another 6 months. My new job starts soon and i will be moving into a new 1 bedroom apartment. No more messy roomates. I am happy to work for a better school and move on. Teaching children was not rewarding at all. I learnt a lota bout myself.

I have never met so many people that i dislike. Some chinese are fantastic, some are very two faced people.
Every conflict that i have had has been a result of cultural difference or misunderstanding. So it ends up not being nobody's fault. If you are impatient you can forget about coming to China. I have been absolutley frustrated of how they do things. Just one example of a 100, it took me 1.5 hours standing in line to deposit money into my account while people budge in line. This usually isn't that bad but it happned to me once.

Wenzhou investors are the most richest people in all of China. What they do wrong is they are not educated well but have too much money to spend. Shanghai people know they are like wolves when they do business sometimes. All that has went wrong has been not my fault. Every foreigner has had similar experiences. I have never encountered culture shock before. This is also my new challenge. It's the mentality of the way they do things that we wouldn't do.

The best of China is that everything is really cheap, and there are so many jobs for us. Just seeing a nice women pass on the street would make your bad day all that more cheerful. They are so kind and nice to talk to. They are so helpfula and go out of their way to encourage you. Forget about that China is a different country it is a different world. You can only know it from coming here. Forget about what you here on the news all the time. China is for sure the world's greatest opportunity and the biggest race that ever lived.

I am so glad that i have come here. There has been a lot of surprises good and bad. But things get better and better. I learnt a lot in Shanghai from a great teacher. Mabe i will move there in the future.
anyways, sometime i will post up two downtown shots of Shanghai and the nice women in my new office.
Keep it real!!

The good of the good; I am not backing down

I am not giving up, I am not backing down. Shanghai is a very nice city. It has a western way of doing business. I have learnt that the city that i live in Wenzhou is the hardest to do business. They have a very different way of mentality in doing business.

The city of Wenzhou is filled with millionaires. In order to make a lot of money you can't be upfront. I want to stay the course of a year there. I can always find a better way of doing things in Shanghai. China is full of jobs for us. I am not worried. I just have been in culture shock of the way they do business in Wenzhou. I have felt betrayed and rejected but this is normal at the beginning.

I have a friend here in Shanghai who studied at UBC and he agrees that Wenzhou is very different from China. I was born to travel and born to find myself abroad. I am not coming home to give up, i want to stay in China as long as i can.

The Chinese women are the most beautiful in the world. They are very nice to talk to. They are very supportive in my situation. I have made some good friends. My girlfriend stopped her shift
to take an hour bus to give me medicine when i had the flu. When i was let go from my job she was there to comfort me. She has spent a lot of time with me in support. She even sewed some holes in my clothes for work.

I AM NOT BACKING DOWN!!!!!!!!!!
I am a winner if i do not give up.

Rob in Shanghai.

A new Door of Opportunity

Just down below you can see Spain's Joaquin dejected from a free penalty kick to send Spain to the World Cup's Semi Final for the first time.

I have tried to express what i feel like through soccer photos. Everything is very unclear here in China. Business people are not upfront. If you are you will be poor. The business is similar to a mexican mentality. It has taken me two months to realize that. My eyes are open now. The thing is that the business people do not think they are not upfront. It is a custom to just smile and tell half truths.

I have met some super great people of support and others not. Teaching kids is really hard. I tried my best and my classes were active with new friendships. The kids have been acting out very undisciplined behaviour lately. Politicaly that wasn't good enough and nobody told me anything. I have been in great culture shock. It is all not my fault. The difference is between the two cultures. It has been a hidden blessing to move on to something better where i am appreciated more for who i am. Somebody that will give me a chance to support me and improve my approach. I have learnt that no matter how much you like the children you cannot hug them.

Life is about falling 7 times and getting up the 8th time. I knew asians were hard to deal with from Korea but i am surprised about how hard it is in China. It is all part of the experience.
Now i should be stronger from it. I have thought to myself am i good at anything? I couldn't make it in Vancouver, I tried construction, the navy and so many other jobs only to end up in a dead end to succeed. This is my major frustration in life. What is wrong with me i cry out!!!!!!!!!!!! Will i ever find my place in life? Or am i a person programmed for unemployed work for the rest of my life? It is time to arise to the situation of opportunity and work harder like my life depends on it. In order to do this i need a lot of support.

This is all i have to write now, I will write more later.
Robert in Shanghai.

What i have felt like these recent days

Not this again!!!