... and I'm typing fast with two fingers! Besides I only work as an english teacher. I was never trained as one - I'm trained as an educational multimedia developer (well, and primary-school teacher, but that was an accident). But I'm one of only about 2 1/2 foreign teachers here who has any education background at all. Or even tertiary education, which everyone is supposed to have but the schools are so desperate.

Re, the plagiarisation ;-) : It's a different cultural attitude. Traditionally, in Asia a good copy was considered a great work in itself. The current IP ludacracies could never have come from the East! I like to whinge (hey, I'm Australian!) but they are all good kids really. They work hard. It's just they are often pointed in the wrong direction by others. This Uni is a big improvement over the low-grade college I started at. Here the students behave and dress like students. Before I was teaching the Spice Girls - all 34 of them!

Here's another little story from the far east:

Chinese have a habit of fiddling with things on your desk while they talk to you. On my desk is a little tortice which springs open to reveal a 1cc hollow which is not good for holding much. It was a gift from a former Primary student in Aust - the sort of thing you get from a gum machine, but I really like it. Anyway, my students ALWAYS open it and pick out the odd item inside. Then they ask me "What is this?"
"A Kidney stone." I reply.
"What is that?"
I have a piece of paper in my desk with the translation written in Chinese.
The stone and the tortice are quickly replaced on my desk and they are very careful what they touch after that!