I agree with the above. Kunming and Yunnan are great for cycling. Without stretching this thread past what it should be, you should just search the forums for one of the other, identically named forum threads. And of course, report when you are here so we can go on a couple of rides together.
buy a projector, hook it up to CCTV5, project across the road on your neighbour's facade. instant entertainment for the entire street.
Oh the newspaper is by no means wrong or trying to hold an anti-foreigner campaign. It is simply addressing a very real issue. Many English teachers are highly qualified and do excellent jobs. But there are others.
I know of one particular non-native teacher whose English was so bad that she was neither able to express herself clearly to native speakers nor to understand what native speakers were trying to tell her.
Yet she accepted a job as a kindergarten English teacher. You may well think: any English is better than none at that level, but however mouldable the brains of young kids are, getting them to pronounce stuff wrong in the very beginning and teaching them meanings of words that are incorrect is definitely not helping and unworthy of a salary.
It is the school's fault for not checking and I find the attitude of this person is very immoral but I know of more than just one student or traveller accepting such jobs. The low salary does not stop these people.
afaik, that's the Daizu 傣族 place on Jianshe Lu 建设路. Other than that the Dai are probably the ancestors of the Thai, the food is nothing like it. I go there quite often and enjoy the place even for its spartan interior. iirc the place does not have a proper licence and is therefore so cheap but also so basic. Anyway I know of few Chinese restaurants where I like to linger around long after eating.
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First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.
When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.
Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.
The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.
In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.
Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.
Super place. Really cool interior, lots of good beers and drinks, fun toilet inside the telephone booth, and an interesting clientele.
Cons: pretty hard to find, no matching glasses for the imported beers, and home brews need some work.
Teaching and support lamentable.
Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.
While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.
Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.
Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.
One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.
I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.
Kunming to invest in public electric car fleet
Posted byGreat news. I assume foreigners won't be able to make use of it, but I would very much welcome anything that brings down the number of cars bought and driving around on the street.
Way to go, Kunming. Perhaps you're a spring city after all. And what a timeframe!
Woman dies of bird flu in Yunnan's Shangri-la
Posted bythey're derivatives of the influenza A virus, not the common cold. The fact that they get names is because they are different diseases that both threaten large populations and need different treatment.
That they just called it a cold before is because medicine wasn't as developed as today and because, you know, a cold is just a cold, and no strains of it can be cured while its symptoms can be treated in the same way.
Report: Rubber plantations threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
Posted byAs indicated by Meine Van Noordwijk, it would be good to have a roundtable with the different stakeholders in the industry and perhaps create something like a 'green label' for rubber, making it easier for users and manufacturers elsewhere to gauge their impact.
National park system in the works for China
Posted byAlso don't forget that family names don't necessarily relate to the other meanings of the character.
In Hmong and Yi areas, if you see a 巫 or any other seemingly meaningless character, I would also argue that it's safer to assume transliteration of a Hmong/Yi word, as neither Mandarin nor Hanzi belong to these people.
Many examples can be found around Yunnan, but they're often most striking in Tibetan areas (甘孜, nothing to do with sweet stuff, just sounds like Tibetan Garze) and Dai areas (猛论, not a fierce debate, but Meng a transliteration of the Dai/Thai Mouang which means village).
Wild mushroom season arrives with a friendly warning
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