Are there any websites like gokunming, but more welcoming to non-English speakers by including other languages? Or maybe say some websites like gokunming but are in Korean or Japanese?
Take your time finding an apartment. Try to find a place that's near a a a main road if you plan to travel by bus frequently. There are frequent traffic jams on the smaller streets.
Make friends with as many students as you can. If you plan to learn Chinese a language exchange with students will be much more useful compared to most Chinese classes offered by schools here. Plus they will be a wealth of information for shopping and eating...hehe
Find students from all over the country, "standard beijing" mandarin is far from standard throughout the country... personally I've only found it useful in Beijing... heh. Most younger people can understand standard beijing mandarin, but most people won't normally use it... especially outside of northeast China.
Try not to judge things for the first six months or so... that means staying away from foreigners who sit in bars and complain about how awful things are here, find a happy bar, haha. Spend time(even if it means skipping class) visiting the hometowns of students, and going on short trips to villages with friends.
If you don't like spicey food there is plenty of non-spicey food to be found in small restaurants. They may not look clean, but the big restaurants aren't much cleaner in the kitchens either. I've also found the small places are much more flexible in ordering the food the way you like it.
I don't have any information either, but you may want to consider they also have a sketchy www.mindsabroad.com website also. My best guess is they are nothing more than an agent that finds foreigners for schools and other programs.
A little searching shows that the minds abroad program has supposedly been established since 2006 and has "the lowest prices period", but their prices are actually on the high side.
But also keep in mind that most Kunming websites are severely lacking, and never updated...
I'm not sure what style of lock you have, but I'm about to get a new lock put in... but it's just the part where the key goes in, it's not the whole handle and all.. I'm told it should cost around 100 yuan for someone to do it. To buy the part online is something like 50 - 80 yuan.
I also plan on studying there. Which campus do you plan on going to? e-mail me at zanthrick@hotmail.com
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Cheese tasted great. Much better than other pizza joints.
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.
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.
Not bad. Pretty much what you would expect, but expensive for China.
Expensive, but decent bread. Other places are better, but not bad if you're in a hurry.
Kunming cracking down on 'uncivilized' behavior...again
Posted byThe traffic police will be the ones smoking in the corner and spitting.... while the cars will be parked down the center of the street, and cars going down the wrong way because they can't turn left due to said cars in the middle of the street.
Just saw it this week on a road just off of Beijing Lu.
Spring City's tallest skyscraper nears completion
Posted byLarge extravagant construction nearing completion... isn't that the sign when the bubble is about to burst?
Government undertaking aims to flush Dianchi clean
Posted byLast time I checked heavy pollutants can't be "flushed" clean. The title should be related to this: "the effort is expected to provide Kunming with another source of water in times of drought as well as generate hydropower."
Beijing Lu road construction to last nine more months
Posted byAnd they can move the bus stops into the bike lines like all the newly redone streets and free up two more lanes on Beijing Lu..... it's working so well. I heard the hospitals love it.
Yunnan official publicly proposes increased transparency
Posted byYes, because they never cover their license plate when they eat at fancy restaurants or drive around town...*end sarcasm*