Hello,

Just reading up on SAFEA contracts and am trying to determine if my contract is even valid! I am employed by a fairly well known international school in China. My contract is written in plain English but has a few ambiguous statements such as, "If you leave employment of _____, you may be subject to prorating or loss of benefits including, but not limited to, salary, displacement allowance, savings contributions, housing and airfare."

May be? Dear lord how lame am I that I signed such a contract.

Now though, looking at SAFEA regulations I'm wondering if I was supposed to sign a SAFEA contract in addition to the one written in English provided by my employer.

I am on a two year contract but given many irregularities in promises made and actual circumstances, I plan to leave at the ned of this year.

Trying to figure out what my legal standing is with regard to possibly having my school try to make me pay back any expenses or generally acting negatively toward me.

Suggestions, comments, helpful advice are all most welcome.

You might try the International School of Koje. Just be sure they have a certified U.S. teacher that could serve as your mentor. It's a very family friendly school.

For my Search bio I wrote about one of my best teaching moments. After that I added a bit about taking on a math coordinator role even though it was outside my comfort zone. Both of those stories were brought up during my interview. The school offered me a contract via email about 10 minutes after our Skype interview.

My Search recruiter suggested making it like a story, so I did.

Good luck!