women bu shi nuli, er shi laoshi

So, our lives are getting very exciting, though not exactly in the ways we wanted. Basically our school is starting to turn into "Mutiny on the Bounty," with our boss as the slave-driving captain (hmm...employees unhappy? Maybe I'll just not pay them and threaten to sue them and all their relatives to the nth degree. That'll show them.) However, it is turning into be a good lesson on the differences between America and China when it comes to workers rights, and who knows? Maybe we'll be the first school to form a union in China, or start an investigation that leads to a citywide crackdown in corruption in foreign language schools. (Don't worry mother, I'm not going to do anything too crazy).
Other news, we found a new apartment, which is very centrally located, and really really nice (maybe one of the nicest apartments I've seen). We are renting a room from a hard-driving Chinese business woman. On the surface she seems a bit lihai (formidable), but she is starting to get friendlier, so I am not quite as scared of her as I used to be. The first time we met she didn't crack a smile once, but I think part of that was putting up a front. We will be moving today or tomorrow, so it will be a big change, from living in a 3 bedroom apartment by ourselves, kind of on the outskirts of town (well, not really the outskirts, but on the side of this mountain kind of in the east, so it feels like the outskirts). Between our school and moving and our visa, life has been busy.