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Waiting, as if help were not needed.  It is part of the bargaining strategy.  
   

Waiting, as if help were not needed. It is part of the bargaining strategy.

The tri-cycle taxis wait to bargain with the next student, to help carry the belongings to the dorms. They bargain hard. Chinese are very frugal with their money.
#85 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Introducing my 2nd year at TTC.)

September 21st 2007
The Campus of Taizhou Teachers College is once again busy with the hustle and bustle of academia and college life. Our upper-classmen have returned, each one year closer to their goal as future English-teachers in China, hoping to make the most of their remaining years, and salvage a satisfying career. (In China, teaching is not considered the most prestigious job by students or even society, an ... read more
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Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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