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Forums > Travel Yunnan > I need help quickly

It is so easy to solve this problem seriously, contact a local tour guide, she will come at the airport with a sign and help your friend. Then you can instruct them about the hotel you want him to stay, how to change the money etc..and when he arrives in the aiport he can use her phone to contact you and everything will be smooth.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > I need help quickly

he will be in km tonight at 11.20pm?
He knows you should be at the airport but you cannot contact him to tell him you won't be there?
Contact a local travel agency who will send an english speaking tour guide, she/he will deal with everything.
It's probably his first time in China, let him have good memories. Good luck!

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Any qualified teachers in Kunming?

Teaching languages is actually a very complicated process that interacts with how our brain is designed, its mechanisms of retention, different approaches in learning according to personalities etc...I would say more than rocket science! If we analyze the design of software language tools for example they cannot be created by just some unskilled native speaker or somebody who got some years of experience working in a classroom.
But yeah so far the way to teach is still most like sitting, listen to somebody who can have some communication skills, doing some homework and no much more, and that's almost worldwide.
But are students really learning something? And what about China in particular?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Foreign Car models fined 10k for working w/o visa

@peter99 i think tonyaod explained pretty well,it is hard to understand what is really allowed or not in this country, you say government is cracking down on modeling show but there is plenty of that happening every day smoothly. if u have been living enough here you know that all is about guanxi, maybe they thought they had some good ones. i wouldnt be so judgemental without knowing what happened exactly.

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people predicting the fast bankrupt of these companies are probably underestimating the power of advertising..plenty of phone numbers and weixin account collected,ready to forward to the best buyer, isn't that similar to how Facebook makes money finally?

@fixit we are getting far from the point, I'm not saying that a teacher should only spend time with good students, I'm saying that the teacher should use his experience to advice all students according to their ability..if somebody is struggling with business but it's better in art why wasting time teaching him business? failing him has not to be intended as a shame but more as a service, closing some doors to be able to open others. teacher s ability shouldnt be measured by the amount of people he passes/fails but more about how good he is in showing a future successful path for his students.

@fixit now i understand why we have different views. in my opinion excellence is everything, one beethoven can inspire millions of musicians that will probably never reach his level but will surely get better because of him. the same for Newton in science, van gogh in art, the french enlightenment in literature and so on. they are genius, they are examples and can inspire for generations,that's why we study them at school. but they would have been nothing without an example to get knowledge and inspiration from. recognizing a potential genius and not spend enough time on him it's a negligence that would affect not only him but the entire society and its progress.

@fixit now I'm getting confused about your point..you are saying it is easy to teach every kid what they need to learn. i agree on this, we often realize that many kids don't need to learn English,piano or other specific subjects like business etc, so teachers job can be well done advising them to spend time in something they are good at, and possibly helping in finding a specific teacher for that. tiger was also telling you the same, why wasting time in class on people who are not good at studying when that time can be used to people who are good? i met amazing people who had a very low education but they were smart to dedicate time in what they liked and became an excellence in that (helping their personal growth aswell). then i met tons of graduated people who are still confused about what to do with their life because they weren't lucky enough to get proper advices.

@fixit i don't wanna turn this topic into a football conversation but i just don't agreewith you.,if you move ronaldo bale and benzema behind, then shift pepe marcelo and ramos ahead you won't get the same result,we don't need to be professional coaches to understand this. put the right people at the right place is the foundation of every successful team in every kind of project. you said you adviced a student to try to become an artist and he succeeded, great! thanks to your experience you understood what was his best quality and you adviced him well. That was the best thing you could do as a teacher,instead of wasting your and his time keeping him in class studying something he was no good at. showing directions is not giving up,discouraging or leaving people behind, it's just doing well the teaching job, helping students in finding their way and becoming adults.

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