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Hunan City College, Yiyang 
03 NEGATIVE REVIEWS
COMMENTS: (SPIDERED)
The only lady in the Foreign Exchange Department who spoke English (besides the Director) left the same day I arrived last August. The replacement is the daughter of two teachers who lost her job in Southern China for some "unknown" reason (I was told it was none of my business) and speaks very poor English and understands less. The other person (who is responsible for apt. maint. and generally getting things done) speaks or understands no English. So much for communication! The pictures of the apartment sent me were of a nice, good looking and modern facility at their new campus site on the other side of the city. Imagine my utter surprise upon arrival to be housed in a 50 year old teacher apartment building with so many coats of paint the windows will not close. I understand (and did before I arrived) that the Chinese idea and concept of "clean" is quite different than that of Americans. However, the apartment had been slightly cleaned from the previous tenant who must have been a real HOG !! Dirt and filth everywhere....
..The ability to communicate with the office staff is almost impossible. I have been told to "get a student to help you" more times than I can remember.....but they are not in college to help Americans, they are there to get an education (or whatever they do)!! I've been told to send the office an email so they can read it and translate it to Chinese when I need/want something...I thought they were supposesd to be the people to whom we could ask questions??? The only person who is interested in providing any assistance at all is the Director of the Dept....who is having difficulty getting the 12 or so American teachers the University wants. He has provids me with much outside work every month with extra pay....nice addition to the salary...which is not bad for this Province. Oh, almost forgot...those promised Chinese lessons???.....sorry, but we don't have the funds to do that anymore.
Sorry folks, but I would not recommend this school to anyone..
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