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Forums > Living in Kunming > yahoo mail and china

My Yahoo mail is screwed up this morning too - I can read emails but can't respond. Anyway, yahoo's idea of news reporting is a bad joke, weighed down by annoying advertisements and a lot of bs.

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Forums > Study > TESL, TEFL, TESOL, IELTS Teacher Training?

@ Napoleon: I get your point, but it seems to me that some familiarity of the teacher with the language of the student, and to some extent with the cultural attitudes the teacher can expect, is very worthwhile - at least I have found it so, as a language teacher. But I don't mean to exaggerate this.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2016 Olympics

On further thought, I well remember the importance of the raised fists of black American participants at the 66 Olympics. Behaviour within a game is one thing; the impact of the Olympic games within the highly-politicized arena of global affairs, whether intranational or international, is another.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2016 Olympics

Have the Olympics ever 'failed'? Criteria?
Sad to see the Palestinian athlete refusing to shake hands - I think the whole point of a game is that it is specifically just that - it is NOT politics, economics, warfare, etc. My argument against all those who claim that life is a game, and play it, or with it, that way.

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Note practical functional adaptation to forest regrowth and re-use of land for agriculture practiced by slash-&-burn (swidden) mountain groups before their territories were restricted, which required re-use of same land in much shorter periods - and they knew, through their cultural history, that this wouldn't work, and said so - but of course the explosion of the human population made continuation of these traditional long-period of regrowth practices impossible. Now they are blamed for being ignorant and ruining mountain slopes (in China, Thailand, many places).
Fact is, there are simply too many people.

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The Curmudgeon says: Maybe the Western dam experts criticisms of just about every dam in Asia are right.
In vis-a-vis arguments concerning fossil-based, nuclear and hydroelectric sources of energy, perhaps the shining truth behind them all is simply that this particular species of animal consumes too much damn energy for the good of the planet, including that of our particular species. Perhaps solar, tidal, etc. development will prove me wrong. In the meantime, walk, get a bicycle or ride the bus. Healthier and less socially divisive too.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.