several northern, southern and internal and even wu-dang masters teach there. They have several masters of note between lev 5 and 7

Yeah you r right. It was a little bit of dissapointment for me not to find any monks in that temple or anything that would remind me somehow of a monastery except the massive chinese style front entrance gate. During my stay there were wu shu, shaolin, ba ji, sanda (chinese kickboxing) and ba gua groups. I stayed one week in wushu but after freaking acrobatic lessons, i switched to more grounded and gentle traditional shaolin group, which i enjoyed a lot. It was my first acqaintance with the martial arts and pretty much enjoyed the outline of the course. It was basically all day training starting from 5 am till 4.30 with meal breaks. The red coloured rules posted on website were not that strict at all and we would ocasionaly drink and smoke at the academy without any problems. The closest city is hour ride on cab where we used to get massages for just 40 kuai, buy food (food at the academy wasnt that healthy, pretty much all deep fried and greecy), get other necessary things.
I liked location very much. The academy is situated on the top of mountain from which you can see the valley, tiny villages, rice and corn fields. Just outside of our gate there is a Ye he ancient castle, which was built 40 years ago for some movie. Now it is a museum and there are many tourists coming onthe weekends. They always asked to take picture with me, so after five days of constant photoshooting i started asking for money in order to avoid that torchure... huh. All the students were cool, everyone from states or england, iceland spanish and me the only russian!
The thing i didnt like was the slow method of teaching. In one month of training i learned only one dao form, tantuei spring kicks, and half of tai chi 40.
There were mandarin and chin na classes which i never attended. I looved meditation classes, very simple and effective method involving gardening of dan tien, reversed breathing and trea poses.
I realy enjoyed this training. I guess i was looking for some different type of vacation, so whatever this school offered was quite satisfying and if i have an oportunity to return for another month id go for it!