Tuesday 24th August, 2021 1600

So remember I was admonished/lectured/ordered to return early and I refused? No sooner am I back than they put the school start date back a week! Also after all the flapping about me applying for my permit ie deadline yesterday - suddenly it can wait a bit. It does hack me off that everyone mithers me and it's their job to know the regs backwards yet I know more.

Last night thanks to Ibuprofen I got over three hours sleep before pain returned.

Jody has just left for the PSB. where a couple of foreign affairs girls from the school are doing paperwork. She has been asked as a teacher and as she has good English.

Why?

A load of the Uzbekistani students were rounded up in their dorms this morning and taken into custody.

Their student visas expired months ago and they should have gone home to renew before returning but they said flights were too expensive. They were granted no less than three extensions but are now taking the piss. The police have had enough.

I suggested she rip into the students - who by all accounts think it's a joke - for embarrassing the school and also putting their permission to run an international programme at risk of being revoked. They cocked a snook at China's laws - they don't apply to us - and now face consequences.

My guess is deportation, a fine, no graduation and barred from returning to China for five years. Serves them right, I have no sympathy - and I did teach them all!