The school I am teaching at, Jin Cai, actually has two campuses. I teach at the international division, where the students are mostly foreign. The students pay to attend although it is a public school. The Chinese government discourages Chinese citizens from enrolling in international schools (after all, our textbooks are all Prentice Hall and filled with American Propaganda, see chapter three, of Economics Principals in Action, which discusses the American Free Enterprise long before basic economic concepts of supply and demand are introduced). However, I do have some Chinese students who are able to attend internation school because their parents may have worked abroad and they attended a western school before, or because they want to attend a western university.
The video below is from Sports Day. For all the weekends I had to work, one would think the Chinese government does not approve of time taken away from academics. Nonsense! Nearly every school in China, and apparently some businesses, have an annual Sports Day. Two weeks ago, we had Sports Day on our campus where the English Sections competed against the Chinese sections. Last Thursday, we went to main campus (which was gorgeous) to compete against them. Main campus has perhaps three times as many students than us and they are definitely intense. First, they are more academically intensive as they actually have an acceptance rate below 100%. Secondly, they can kick our ass in sports. Their students told ours that they practice every day. Partn of their everyday routine is this stretching exercise in the video below, which was kindly sent to me by my friend/coworker/classmate, Ellyse.
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