My Cranky Foreign Teacher

Rob, my foreign teacher, is a very cranky geezer (Just so you know, "cranky geezer" is quite an offensive way to describe someone, and literally means irritable, crazy old man. It is normally not used unless you are on very good terms with the person concerned and want to poke fun at him). At least from the perspectives of his Chinese students, he is a very eccentric man. He holds a Ph.D in hHistory, so undoutly undoubtedly, he loves history the subject as well as politics. He talks about this love and his opinions on some political affairs with us in every class, which makes us feel very bored. We can't help wondering if every man who comes from New Zealand is the same as like him. I wonder about that too.
But why is he like this? Why are there not so many people do less people in China love history or politics so as much as my professor and study them everyday? In my opinion, it's because many Chinese people have become the slaves of their lives, while Zelanian people New Zealanders have not.
So many people are the slaves of life, such as slaves of the housing,slaves of children, which means they devote so much time to buying houses or raising children while that they neglecting to enjoying life and cultivate habits.In China, qiute a few people some people are relatively poor, especially those of the young generation who were born in the countrysides but are now living in some metropolises cities. They can't count on their parents to give their money to buy pay for their houses.They are the bread-earner of their families.The price of the property in China is so high and even that it takes someone several dacades to be able to afford that their own home. Not just the problem of housing That is not all. Besides housing prices, the price of basic necessities commodities is are becoming climbing higher and higher too. I am just a university student, but I have to do some part-time jobs to raise support myself. Even though doing part-time jobs is very common for students in Europe and America, but in China, it is not so common quite uncommon. I love dancing and playing the guitar, but because of the high price of everything, i have had to give up on them for months. Now, i don't know whether i can will be able to dance or play the guitar again.
How pathetic we are! Hopefully, one day, we, the Chinese people, can live as like Rob (either "can live like Rob" or "can live as Rob does", combining our life and hobbies together (unnecessary to say combine.... together since combine tells you that two things are being put together already).

Hi Zerlinda, great work here! I agree with you that it is sad that so many people have fallen for material trappings and live their lives as puppets. But cheer up! I think that if we believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel and work hard to achieve a worthwhile goal, things will turn out better and our lives on Earth will not be wasted.