I have a dream!

Whilst tidying up my blogs to direct my supporters to one place to view what I have written so far online, I was also listening to the Commercial Radio Hong Kong station and heard an artist relay how a dream had helped him launch a muscial.

It reminded me of a dream which I had carried for a long time. I was thinking of something along the line of a finishing school. If you don't know what a finishing school is, it is popular in the west when young school leavers will attend to learn how to dress and present themselves at work.

And that finishing touch is like a preparatory course as well. Surprisingly I am about to start with a preparatory school - a business preparatory school exclusively for girls here in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi Province. I wonder what's waiting for me there as one cannot expect much information from a China school. I don't have a teaching contract and instead an exchange of email was used to leave some evidence of a contractual relationship. I am not even sure what date and what time I am expected when I report to work in September. Anyhow, I will just have to walk across the street to get that piece of information from a lady teacher who happens to speak Cantonese.

Another dream I have is to end up in a writing career of some sort as there is no guarantee that a Chinese face can stay on a teaching job in China forever when white faces are always the choice of schools, students and parents. My Chinese English head teacher friend in Guangdong just told me that he had seen in his own eyes the termination of a Canadian-Chinese lady teacher most liked by the students. Well, having placed foreign teachers in China universities and schools for 4 years myself, I am not unfamiliar with this sheer stupidity and mis-conception.

So, this is why I have to prepare for another career just in case. When I get too old to present my face, I can still hide myself behind an LCD monitor and pound the keyboard to generate some cash to catch up with inflation. On this, I must thank this lovely and cheerful lady member at my Wednesday Midweek Evening Club (Shenzhen City) who reminded me that I should take writing as my career perhaps.

Listen up, I am heading for that dream career now even though my English is not of a flavor that fits native English readers. I'm working hard on it though.