I had been working at Hubin Centre near WestLake at Yingtai shopping mall in Hangzhou for the last year, but I had noticed a decrease in the number of classes, that is 'no shows'. It was very close to Wulin centre, in fact, only around a 15 minute walk away. To specify the work schedule, I would have a maximum of around 21 classes each week, that is, between four to six per day, with a weekly meeting at 10am on Saturday. Most classes would be face to face classes, F2F, with a maximum of four people, though normally at Hubin, it was only two or even one attendee, with me taking most of the advanced level classes. Other classes were life clubs, which could have between 20 to 35, with many of the 'food' making classes over-subscribed, where they could use English freely, though it always resorted to Chinese. But they rapidly started declining in attendance and time on the lease on the space in the shopping mall was running out. The company had already decided not to rene...