The office which is on the same floor as my home in Taipei has just been bought by a 徐薇 Xu2 Wei2 school. According to my wife, this Xu-Wei and her English schools are REALLY famous in Taiwan, I’ve been here a few years, have heard of quite a few different schools, but I’ve never heard of this one, does anyone know anything about it?
We’re a little bit concerned about having a buxiban open 10 meters away from our front door, I worked at Shane before and know what a mess the kids and parents make messing around and such.
[quote=“Dr Jellyfish”]The office which is on the same floor as my home in Taipei has just been bought by a 徐薇 Xu2 Wei2 school. According to my wife, this Xu-Wei and her English schools are REALLY famous in Taiwan, I’ve been here a few years, have heard of quite a few different schools, but I’ve never heard of this one, does anyone know anything about it?
We’re a little bit concerned about having a buxiban open 10 meters away from our front door, I worked at Shane before and know what a mess the kids and parents make messing around and such.[/quote]
I know Ruby (徐薇) personally and by reputation. We’ve been on TV together twice. She runs a different kind of buxiban system altogether - LARGE classes, and very little teacher/student interaction. It’s a language mill. McDonald’s vs. Ruth Chris. Still, you’re right to be worried. She is a “famous” teacher, and can really pull in the numbers. (BTW, her English isn’t that great and her brother, who also works in her company as a teacher is the world’s biggest dickwad.)
Thanks for the heads up, so there’s the possibility of large amounts of kids running around, mike weilding teachers and a side-order of dickwad - just perfect!
If they really do make a lot of noise… then, saying as I’m not working at the moment, I might think about sitting on the stairs leading up to our floor, mess my hair up, drink beer and pull faces at the potential customers. My brother in law also thinks it’s a good plan, well the beer drinking part anyway.
Her English is not great is right, but she’s good at marketing and packaging herself with that girly lilting voice. (She’s in her 40s but speaks like a ditsy teenager.) Apparently, local kids really buy into that.
Come to think of it, I may have seen her one or two times whilst on my channel flicking adventures, does she speak a little slowly and kind of over-pronunciate things? Or have I just described about 95% of the Taiwanese English teachers out there?
We’re considering turning our home into a buxiban as well, just to spite them, give them a bit of thee olde Taiwanese passive agression act. Wouldn’t be too hard either, I could just put up a few red arrows up re-directing students to our place instead, I could sit outside my front door wearing a cheap suit and tie and my mother-in-law could be the receptionist/manageress - would be quite funny if I could actually be bothered.