Rick Mundt's China

Chapter 54 Apartments at the Number 19 High School (August 2010-June 2013) My colleague Mary Cardinez, from the Philippines, and I were the first foreign teachers at this school. Guan Jigang was the Foreign Affairs person at the Number One Foreign Language School when I was in Luoyang the first time. Between then and when I returned now, he had gotten a job as one of the Associate Principals at the Number 19 High School. He is the one that wanted to have foreign teachers at this school. There wasn’t a foreign affairs person at the school until Mary and I came. Zhao Fei was chosen for that position. She was an English teacher. She was great. I always hoped that Mary and I didn’t cause too many problems for her. Being Mary had been in Luoyang the previous two years and I had been in Luoyang for two years in the past, I’m sure it helped being we were not foreigners that just came there and knew nothing. Our apartments were like new. They had been remodeled for Mary and I. New furniture a...