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Restrictions that were never there, that is.
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Restrictions that were never there, that is.
@Liumingke1234 there brought another perspective or two to my pondering above, and also anectodal evidence on his own part.
Health hazards are bigger for older people, and while that would remain so in almost any country, many older and more experienced teachers will avoid countries like China (distrust on local health care and language barriers for most) where they may face age discrimination to begin with.
Younger teachers will not want to risk getting involuntarily stuck in foreign countries, or quarantined for weeks on roundtrips both ways.
Add political problems with USA.
Shortage of foreign teachers sounds guaranteed in very near term. Only saviour may be that economy globally goes down, and jobs disappear. China may still have jobs for those who can accept all above challenges.
More generically on topic of foreign teachers "on tour" in China (rather than living here like many of us), do you people working in education think the Covid will take a toll on that?
I mean, will it act as a deterring factor for fear of future pandemic or travel restrictions appearing? People worrying about getting stuck in places they prefer not get stuck in, and staying in home countries?
If there is such thing, will we see a new demand for native speakers being hired regardless of qualifications, or even lowering those qualification requirements by the authorities to answer to that demand?
Google translate is so familiar for foreign tourists coming to China, that blocking it together with other Google products would mean even more foreigners lost here - which, on the topic, would feed more anti-foreigner sentiment.
I don't know how Google's translate service operates technically in China (for example does it communicate with Google's ecosystem elsewhere, or does it censor translate results), but it wouldn't have been a tough sell for Chinese authorities to give it any necessary exception.
@AlPage48:
"information they post about visiting or living here does not match my experience here at all"
Ditto that. Then again they must build their view on the cities and places where majority of the repsective nationals visit, and those are Shanghai etc.
Scams on West Nanjing Road and petty thefts in places are (or have been - haven't been to such in years) a real thing, but nothing that describes life in Kunming for example.
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Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted by@sezuwupom : "JanJal is living the good life [...] Igor's delivers to your door."
You forgot to mention that I recycle and care for environment, which is why I would prefer to pick up my bakeries on my way rather than have someone on scooter deliver it wrapped in plastics. Even if it would leave the plastic maker and the scooter driver jobless. They could find new jobs in Just Hot, which I keep in business.
But I wish best of luck to Igor's. If location is everything, they have some catching up to do to reach out to potential customers like they are doing in this paid review..
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted byWent here one morning after grocery shopping in nearby Walmart.
No surprise, shelves were less than half-empty like they are in all upper scale bakeries I've visited in Kunming, specifically in the mornings before lunch.
They all seem to get stocked up few hours after lunch time, which for me is too late because I like to consume my sweets at home(=office) couple of hours after lunch, without making a separate trip for it.
Thus my staple bakeries remain from big and soulless chains like Just Hot, that have their donuts ready before 11am.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byThey also say time is a healer, and it takes time to grow. While time does get peope killed, it also helps greatly in reproduction. Without time, we would not have gotten where we are now - nor would we get to develop into extradimensional beings bound by neither space nor time, if we ban it now.
What I propose, is that we do not ban time, but instead develop ourselves beyond time, so that we no longer depend on it, and becomes indifferent to us.
On a related but more serious note, should humanity also develop beoynd organic in our feeding patterns?
For most people, things like "organic" or "free range" has already developed past hunting wild game and gathering roots and berries. For the minority that still practises such, our current methods to grow our food must appear as strange as eating protein grown in reactors would sound to many of us.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byA store we frequent for vegetables and meat is Q+Life in B1 level of TKP Shopping Mall (Beijing Lu / Baiyun Lu). My wife has bought for their green advertising, I cannot vouch either way but I'm satisfied with the quality.
It's official: Yunnan facing serious drought
Posted byWell, we are having minor thunderstorm right now. Earlier in the week my phone's weather forecast showed daily rain drops in Kunming from end of this week til end of eternity, Or was it just the two weeks ahead it can show.