oh my wow.

怎么搞得？？？？
我真的会留在中国。很难以相信！
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我真的告诉ＣＥＯ我要工作在ｓｍｉｃ公司。我答应给公司三年。那么长！

Anyways...I'm converting to English. My story--

I had been questioning earlier whether I should stay, especially when teaching was so stressful for me. I was afraid to stay because it would hurt my beautiful resume that I worked so hard to fill with PR related work and internships. I decided to stay because I hadn't accomplished my goals I sought to reach in coming to China. I decided and told the school to keep me another year.

Three weeks ago, things were going down hill at school and they were holding my contract to work at the school next year until they had done an extra two weeks of observation of me to watch for improved classroom management. This all began after some of my kids had a fist fight and in the same week I was seen crying.

They told me they were looking for certain things in my classroom to improve. I cried.
My friend told me, "If God closes the door, he always leaves a window open." I didn't believe it...or at least I didn't see a better window opening for me that would make me feel settled. How could I leave China when I had prayed and decided I was going to stay?

But somehow this unfortunate situation led to an even better situation for myself.

Two Sundays ago CEO of SMIC Richard Chang approached me, gave me his card, and asked me to give him a call about working at the company.

The PR department had one opening--industry analyst. "Do you have any experience with industry analysis?" "No, but I can learn."
Richard asked me to commit 3 years of my life to training, learning, and working in order to do this job. I said yes.
Oh my gosh.
I said yes.
I didn't even think that long about it.
This seems to be a pattern in my life.

I'm in China--3 more years!