Blonde hair, blue eyes - and working on black labor market

With long blonde hair and blue eyes, Erika Andreasson, a 24-year-old from Sweden, is exactly what English schools in the city are looking for - except that she has neither a teaching diploma nor teaching experience.

Erika worked as an oral English teacher at Fidelity English School in Beijing while she was studying Chinese in a university in Beijing last year. She worked for the school for five months from April to September 2008.

She said she was told by the school to say she was a native speaker from the US.