The conditions for Chinese students at home are those of strong competition, lack of promise and little room to move. Most jobs are in Shanghai or larger cities, and parents are aware of that. They also know the big money jobs are with foreign companies and that foreign companies need English. China to so many people is that place , that huge country that no one can manage and everybody ignores. Sometimes I think you could describe China as that big pink elephant sitting in the lounge room -nobody talks about it, but you know it is there.
China is a communist country set free onto the open market.
Well, that is exactly what this country is to me. Inefficient, charming, eccentric, over-powering and unhygienic, yet mesmerising. Sounds like a convention of contradictions, but it s true. However only those that have traveled on the crazy streets, heard the horns and seen the spitting will understand that this country is enchanting. You can hate this place and yet you can love it all at the same time.