You Don't Want a Grenade Blowing Up Beside Yer Face

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Hello and thanks for listening to the SMKY podcast. In this episode, I meet most of the other foreign teachers who were to be my colleagues for that year. It was also out first meeting with the Chinese management, and we laowai were ill-prepared for the cultural expectations of such a situation – and it showed. 


The centre of Changshu, its pagoda and Yushan mountain in the background



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