Here is my sample writing for the job that I am biding for.
Amazing Thailand
Having continually lived in Thailand for a year now, a place I happily call "home", I have often wondered whether there is something about living in the kingdom of Thailand that changes you in some way. I don't just mean the normal change that we all undergo: old age with hair loss, sagging skin, stained teeth, and a sense of creeping senility. I'm talking about psychological change that brings about a major shift in your thinking
Indeed, We all know that Thais quite often think we foreigners are a bit ting tong: a picnic short of a sandwich (if I can invert a well-known idiom), and who can blame them when they see bald, fat, African men flocking to their shores to grope admittedly willing Lolitas a quarter of their age? Who wander round in various stages of stupor as well as undress, complaining about the heat, the food, or the traffic?
Given that Thailand is such an attractive place to live, it's not surprisingly that there are many who come here and decide to stay. Some settle here and, by and large, blend into their surroundings and assimilate with relative effortlessness; others outstay their welcome and are summarily deported; and yet there appears to be another group that persists in staying here (or frequently leaving only to return) while not really seeming to (a) fit in or (b) enjoy their lives here.
Such people whine continually about how difficult it all is. It is this latter group that, for me, is worthy of a few comments in this sample writing for they appear to get more eccentric in relative proportion to the time actually spent in the host culture. They are facing what I like to call the Hotel California syndrome or, as the words of the song succinctly express: "you can check out any time, but you can never leave".