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Forums > Living in Kunming > Student Visa Crackdown

Yeah, I do... because the police warned my wife and I that they are dirty. The education bureau warned my wife and I not to take them to court after not giving me classes even though I had an obvious case against them. They also bullied another school that was going to give me a visa after I refused to continue taking classes there; oh wait, they didn't give me any classes

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > China Eastern. Why bother??

Lately many airlines have had unspecified delays or it's often "due to traffic control." My wife said it's because the military gets full priority. Which isn't as bad as it sounds because usually they are responding to a natural disaster somewhere. That's what I tell myself when I get in a 3 am anyways ;).

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Student Visa Crackdown

This has happened before, but usually your school just has to clear the vacation first. Push come to shove they tell you to call in sick and obviously don't use your passport at the hotels.

Your school probably just pissed off the KCEL mafia that always bullies other schools since their management knows nothing else.

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Forums > Study > New method for learning Chinese

Nothing new, but still effective. If your school isn't doing something similar when teaching/previewing vocabulary then you should find a new school.

Save your money, and just search online for "mnemonics."

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Medical exam: rather in Europe or in Kunming?

Traditionally people studying at private Chinese schools would come on a tourist visa. A few years ago the private schools themselves would even recommend it since many students didn't show up. Win for both since students could shop around when they arrived and not get stuck at some school with terrible management like KCEL.

But with the visa reforms I have no idea now. I know in the past the government occasionally stopped the practice, but usually only for a few months.

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Huh? How is Yunnan distinctive from rural areas in any other country with a centrally controlled economic system(which is pretty much any "modern and developed" country today)? How is The Brother's Jiang expanding everywhere in Yunnan different from Starbucks trying to expand in Yunnan?

Do you think Iowa has lost its distinctness because of all the Mexican and Chinese restaurants that have opened up? Oh wait, even though they almost all serve the same food, and their suppliers are almost all the same... it's so much better because they all have a different name... cripes, it's just marketing.

You can go to any city in Yunnan and you will see the same products being sold in all of them. What does it matter if the name of the store is in Chinese or in English? Does this somehow prevent you from speaking to the people who work there? Does it stop you from taking your time? It's just a marketing symbol, get over it.

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Cheese tasted great. Much better than other pizza joints.

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Excellent salad bar. Hamburgers are usually ok. The fancier dishes were a little lacking.

Giving it a 4 stars for the salad bar. If you were going there for "fine dining" then probably best to go somewhere else.

The store also has some nice imported food(though obviously Metro is cheaper for some things). The freshly baked goods are nice too.

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Seems to be pretty hit or miss. First time I went there the pizza and hamburgers were great. 2nd time the pizza was terrible, and the hamburger was ok. 3rd time the pizza was ok, but people were smoking inside by the time we left. Guess the no smoking policy is not enforced.

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Not bad. Pretty much what you would expect, but expensive for China.

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Expensive, but decent bread. Other places are better, but not bad if you're in a hurry.