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After Shanghai lockdown, new career in Singapore gives Canadian teacher hope
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Canadian teacher Jonathan Garcia landed a job in Singapore during the first week of April, when Shanghai's lockdown started.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JONATHAN GARCIA
Faith Pang
SINGAPORE - During the recent Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai, Canadian teacher Jonathan Garcia, 37, would always check on how his fourth-grade students were doing before they started their daily online class.
"It was ridiculous how some of my students weren't getting any food but their parents were doctors or lawyers or engineers," he told The Sunday Times while he was still in Shanghai.
