Forums > Living in Kunming > Gao Kao Weekend Gao Kao results are out today. Some are happy while most others are disappointed. 12 years of schooling summed up in one exam. Very few will retake the Gao Kao (less than 1%) to improve their score. Most will helplessly accept their score and base their entire future on this single Gao Kao score.
Now the students must choose a major and a school within the next 2-3 weeks.
Unfortunately, most English teachers are not aware of how important English is on the Gao Kao. English is 1 of 4 parts of the Gao Kao (both Arts + Science) for a total of 150 points. English has the same value as Chinese and Math. Total score for Gao Kao is 750.
In Yunnan, 80% of students who take the Gao Kao score less than 500. To get into a 1st level univ, a student needs at least 540 on the Gao Kao.
Students who score less than 500 on the Gao Kao are unable to pass the Civil Servant exam as the standards for Civil Service have also gone up significantly.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Real GK Meetup Thursday, June 23 at 1700. We had another successful and positive meeting last night.
Among the participants were Long-Dragon, Ricsnap, Tallamerican, JanJal and myself. Michael2015 and Alexz, we missed you guys last night.
Based on inquiries from prior participants, we are planning to have a meeting which includes wives or significant others. Once we get enough people who are interested we can better prepare for this event and our better halves can also meet and interact with each other.
At times, wives can feel isolated as being married to a laowai is not always easy - Haha! It will be good for spouses to relate and share expereinces with one another and perhaps even begin a support group among themselves.
From a military background, wives always played an important role and they always had a support group to help each other, especially for younger spouses who did not know how to deal with absent military husbands. In the case of Kunming, some spouses are not local and may feel alone without their families or they may need a shoulder to lean on to share concerns from a female perspective.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Real GK Meetup Anyone else wants to join? We are set for this week in the north.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者If ofo can throw away thousands of bikes and leave them destroyed on many city streets across China, then it must be getting (Stealing) money from somewhere.
It is impossible to run an UNsustainable business model such as this across so many cities.
Even the manufacturer of the ofo bikes should be happy to get those bikes back and repair them and then sell them back to ofo.
These bikes are littering the city streets and the city should FINE ofo for littering.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者society.yunnan.cn/html/2017-04/05/content_4780009.htm
You will not see a graveyard of the other bikes - only the yellow ofo bikes.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者Nothing has changed in hundreds of years - World's biggest drug dealers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/14066.html
Who can forget the most important mottoes of the US govt - Deny Everything - Admit Nothing or I Don't Recall.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者The only bikes I see being abused are the yellow ofo bikes because of the present system in place. It will not last much longer.