Hummmm... why not just apply for a 6 month tourist visa? Who cares if you use some of that time to study? I think 180 days is the max you can apply for as tourist, so you are covered plenty. What your use your tourist time with is not important.

You can see some examples of my artwork and listen to some examples of my music on my myspace.

Iv tried to both give some examples of the width of my styles, but also try to not put up my most "upside down" ones. :)

As I am in Sweden for some time now and anyhow have been thinking about taking a cruse to Latvia, maybe we could meet and talk shop and toss some ideas around. :)

www.myspace.com/pernordin

My thought the moment I read about wanting to open a Salvador Dali café was "wow, cool.. build furniture and design the interior in the spirit of Dali, or even make if look like your inside one of his painting but not actually copy any of his work... cool place...". If I had the finances, Id love to do something like that!

If you dont call it "the Salvador Dali Café", but name it "The Pointy Mustache" or "Café of the Tragically Lethargic Toast Seeking a Poignant Memory" (hummm... actually I think I'll use that as a title for a piece of music) or something like that, there will be no issues of copyright (unless you decide to call it the "Café of the Tragically Lethargic Toast Seeking a Poignant Memory" which I now invented and plan to use as a music title... but the only royalty I would ask is free coffee when I come. :) Unless you franchise it out to others and build a chain on which Id like something more :D ).
Or why not "Dont Ants Like Irrigation" and just highlight the DALI or why not call it D.A.L.I or D-A-L-I, if you want to use his name without technically using his name?

The main thing is to make the interior look like you are inside one of Dali's paintings, and people will be interested and understand, even if its called "Not a Café". Humm... THAT would be a great name in his spirit. :)
- "Where are you going?"
- "Not a Café."
:D

PS... just for the record... I dont do drugs, I just have an absurd sense of humor, imagination and love to find solve problems like this one. :)

To make it a bit more clear, it was November 09 that I had it done. So the price is fairly up-to-date and they will remember me. :)

I got an infected root canal last autumn and flew from Sweden to KM to fix it. The cost is so much lower than here in Sweden, that I basically got a free vacation...

I had it done at Huiying Dental Clinic. They speak english well enough. They have an ad here on GoKunming (thats how I found them). www.gokunming.com/en/microsites/huiying/

I didnt get a "real" crown, as I didnt think it is needed, since I dont eat much "hard food" as the dentist put it (gnawing on bones and such), but settled for a crown made of the normal plastic used for modern fillings. I am happy with it and my dentist here in Sweden thought it looked ok on inspection. He had himself done the same type of "faux-crown" on another tooth for me a decade ago and its still fine.

So, root canal therapy and the simple "crown" (they can do real crowns and the most expensive / best quality one is actually made in Sweden).
I had 4 roots and it took a bit of work to find them. They called in a specialist for it. The whole job landed on a grand total of 560 RMB... yes, five hundred sixty RMB. But as I said, I opted out on a "real" crown. Mind you, the real crowns are _much_ (a few thousand) more expensive if you opt for that, but I am happy with my plastic faux crown.

When I got back home, my ordinary dentist wanted to look and x-rayed the tooth. His only objection was that he said the drill holes where a bit on the thin side for his taste, but had nothing to complain about. I guess the Chinese maybe have smaller teeth / thinner roots, so the dentist uses more delicate drilling there.

I can also add that the job on me was done in relative haste, as I had to catch a flight back home to Sweden. So given that he wanted more time than I gave him, they did a very good job.

So, I would not hesitate in recommending you to go to them and have them check you out and give you an estimate. You can tell him I sent you with my regards (Swedish middle-aged man with red beard and long red ponytale hair).