Olympic English. Another dumb idea from the wife of the President.

I did an Olympic English event yesterday where I talked to about 200 teenage women about the Olympics.  Lord knows if they understood me.  At the end of the class, one student asked me what I thought about some European country not going to the Olympics.  I said I hadn't heard about it (I have found no information on the Internet about any country boycotting although I did read Sakorzy was thinking of it) and said it was a shame if they did.

The VP at our school, who happens to be the wife of the President of the school's mother corporation, wants the foreign trainers to move into different offices in the school in order to interact more with the Chinese study advisors whose English needs to be improved.  She wants this move to be done by the end of the week.  This woman just made my job very difficult.  To begin with, it was an idea that had been tried last year and was quickly abandoned.  This imagined interaction between foreign trainer and Chinese tutor never happened.  Some foreign trainers just ended up feeling isolated.  The Chinese tutors didn't seem interested in improving their English.  (Why don't they hire people who can speak English instead of pissing off the good employees with their dumb rules?)  The VP continued on with the Chinese habit of not giving us enough time to prepare properly for any of their hair-brained ideas.  The fucking Chinese always tell you things at the last minute!  Pardon my French.  None of the study advisors or trainers wants to move.  Some have told me straight out that they don't want to and won't. 

I will talk to the Chinese management today to see what I can do to come up with a better way of improving the tutor's English without pissing off everybody.