Forums > Study > KCEL a profit-making school The problem with KCEL is they flat out lie to students to get them to sign up. Like promising classes they can't deliver, or saying they can easily switch schools if they want. Then after they get their money they make it hell to switch. Like threatening other schools if they gave the student a new visa. Or coming up with excuses why they need to pay more money, but were never told of this before signing up.
They are also a huge source of grey market visas for schools that can't provide a work visa, but the teachers don't actually study Chinese as they're supposed to. That's where your "mafia" like feelings probably come from.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Dropbox not working? I've had trouble with drop box for the past week. Google drive works even less often. About the only one that works 90% of the time is Microsoft One drive. Sometimes there is a significant delay(5 to 10 minutes) before it starts working, especially when trying to upload files.
When Windows Update and OS X update don't even connect I really wonder what they are thinking.... They even block or significantly slow down update servers for Linux... all 0.0001% of the population that uses it... Although they are probably targeting servers in that case.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Leaving These Forums Personally I think the forums have slowed down tremendously in the past few years.... So if there are no rants and troll fests to read then what to do while I wait for the VPN to connect... All possible offense intended ;)
Forums > Living in Kunming > Google services no longer working Also use something like adblock plus with a good privacy filter list, then add the usual suspects like Facebook and twitter. Most sites will load significantly faster after that.
I've also noticed the firewall seems to be using a white list approach too. Any site with https that isn't popular now takes at least three or four tries to open.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Bring, buy or rent a netbook? Yes, Lenovo tends to be better about prices on older models. But they're still always more expensive, and if you don't know Chinese you'll have to pay for another license of Windows... so what's the point?
He only has 10 days in China... might as well save money, and time by getting it before coming here.
American conservative group makes inroads into China's classrooms
发布者I don't think high schools and universities are going to have a week long session of role-playing. It will be just another pamphlet given to students along with the current material, and then likely never be discussed in class beyond a few minutes.
Besides that, discussing family values in high school and college is a wee bit late. Heck, in my rural conservative hometown we started studying sex education in 4th grade.
Another point is that the English should probably be "addicted to" and not "mentally dependent on"
Welcome to the new GoKunming.com!
发布者The layout seems a little unbalanced, but not bad. I think it's because some text that doesn't have it's own boxed in background seems lost, like it's just floating around. Forums need to be updated to have threaded posts.. a rating system would be great. Even if it would something as simple as marking posts as "troll/flame" or "off topic".
Yunnan news roundup
发布者I think the shortage of water is of usable water. I've heard that Dianchi lake is so bad that they can't even use the water for industrial usage. So I'm guessing, or at least hoping the water they use is ok for grass, but not for drinking... probably sewage water.
GoKunming Weekend Preview
发布者Hello Puppies!
Nice photo.
Kunming News Roundup
发布者haha... the schools "quarantine" is useless. Students regularly leave the school. There's even a path between the bushes where they leave.
Many students have already gone home. Supposedly they're all supposed to come back now and sit around to do nothing.
Plus they let everyone and anyone talk at the main gate.