I am pleased to say that my employment experience in China has ended on a good note. My contract was not clear about whether the university I have been working at had to pay me a one way airfare home after teaching for one semester, so I was prepared for the worst. I will name this institution because they chose to interpret the policy in my favour and also gave me my holiday bonus. So today I had the equivalent of a thousand Aussie dollars delivered to me, refunding my fare home and giving me the holiday bonus. Fine people. Thank you to the staff of Huazhong Keji Daxue, Wuchang Fenxiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuchang Branch). I wish you all well for the future.
I must say my experience at that University has been entirely satisfactory. Senior staff were cordial in their relations with me and whenever I asked for help they tried their best to accommodate my request, within the limitations of the system they must work within. I particularly thank Professor Gu, for hiring me, Professor Li for being such a helpful and friendly supervisor, Mrs. Liu whose generous approval of financial matters is noted above, Rocky and Amber for being the best foreign liaison officers I can imagine, as well as the staff responsible for classroom equipment who gave me so much help operating the computers for me and helping me change rooms when I needed to use special equipment. Thank you also to teacher Wang, Emil, Ann, and others for your friendship to me.
Goodbye to all of you and you can be sure it is with regret that I faced the realities of my health condition and asked leave to return home.