Bad Students and Hong Kong

I just found out I'll be flying to Shenzhen/Hong Kong this weekend to obtain a workers visa and physical "out of country." I hope to convince someone down there to let me move there instead of Shanghai. I've discovered the center we have in Shanghai is almost an hour from the city center and no one I've talked to liked it much. They loved the city itself, but they were so far away it didn't feel like they were living there.

Right now I've got a boring group of pre-college exchange students. They're all very rich and mostly not so bright. They're all heading to Pennsylvania for four years and we're trying to teach American culture in three weeks. There should be 10, but only 4 show to class. One put in his headphones for his iPod the moment my lecture began, two others were a couple. The male of the couplet was a good student, but he was distracted by his girlfriend the entire time... who made every effort to talk to him over me. She even started making out with him when I played the movie Glory.

The teacher who had them last week gave up and showed them Hollywood movies like Pirates of the Caribbean II.

"I wanted to explain the MPAA rating system, see..."

It was his last class before flying home to save money for a Chinese house in the distant future.

Rich Chinese kids who aren't required to go to class are just as bad as my ADHD students back home. Instead of arguing with you, they pretend you're not there.