Forums > Living in Kunming > Is living in China hazardous to your health? After three years in kunming and another year before that in suzhou, ill give this one a go......
Simple answer: if you can't take pollution levels in kunming, china is not the country for you. Put in a months notice at your job and start again in another country.
Further reading: although kunming is by no means a "green city" by international standards, it takes the cake for Chinese ones. During my year in suzhou, I saw less blue sky days than I see in a month here, even kunmings worst pollution day would be a top tenner for the shanghai/jiangsu area of china. My other travels through this 'third world country' haven't given me the impression that there is any other city that would meet your standards as well. Other than maybe lasa,that has a total of zero jobs available to westerners. Sorry to break it to you brad.....but I think you should give it a little time and if you still haven't adapted just move on....pollution here is only gonna get worse
Forums > Living in Kunming > Books all expats in China should read The four classics of Chinese literature:
Outlaws of the Marsh- 水浒传
A Dream of Red Mansions- 红楼梦
Three Kingdoms- 三国演义
A Journey to the West- 西游记
All are over 2000 pages in English and available for about 80 Kuai a set at Mandarin Books. I reccomend starting with Outlaws, it's probably the easiest read.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Shane English School - Is it a good place to work? I worked for Shane for almost two years and I honestly can generally only say good things about the place. I auctually left to take a higher position in one of the schools Weekapaugh mentioned, but Shane is a great school to get experience particurally if you like working with kids. (which I did) Pay is reasonable, hours are too. I did it and I still dont regret it.
Forums > Living in Kunming > KONY 2012 What's the news, social implications of this video? www.nytimes.com/[...]
Watch the Video(English/中文): v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzYyNjY2Mzcy.html
Website:
www.kony2012.com (Cant access at this time, can they really block this?)
What to do:
1-Share this video with all your friends, foreign and Chinese
(If not for its message, at least for the impact its making and will make over 2012)
2- Discuss this with friends and on this forum.
3- Increase awareness and participate in the event if you feel motivated to do so
Forums > Food & Drink > Best snacks? Although a little hard to find here, definitely 肉夹馍(rou jia mo) also known as the chinese hamburger. There is a cafeteria style place on longxiang jie, about 20 meters down from the wenlin jie, jianshe lu intersection that serves them in the back left corner of the dining area.
卤面(lu mian) braised noodles are a good bet too, probably my favorite way to eat noddles, and a Kunming classic.
Quarantine creativity: Kunming film noir is now a thing
Posted byI might be wrong on this one, but it looks like San Diekman and Cames Jafferty to me.
Yunnan's Manhu band storming international charts
Posted byAwesome to see Yunnan being represented in the global music scene. Manhu is definitely a band worth checking out! I also love some of the bluegrass influences that come in on a few of the tracks! 加油!
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted byAlright, I guess I opened up this can of worms, and I would be wise to use some facts as opposed to some sensationalist character attacks and No, No, No's that seemed to follow my message. Furthermore, since I mentioned the name of someone I support as opposed to just bashing one without offering a solution. here we go.
1- 'Wall Street Pete,' being by far the poorest of all the individual candidates running is also has the third largest amount of individual donors at around 390,000. While this is far behind Bernie, it was only around 20,000 behind Warren as of late august. (www.nytimes.com/[...]
2- Buttigieg's campaign average contribution size to the campaign in Q3 was $32, and 98 percent of their donations were under $200. (www.newsweek.com/[...]
3- There is quite alot to be learned from what happened that put
Falling on the far left of the political spectrum and branding one as a 'Democratic Socialist' does based on what happened to put Johnson in power in the UK and I think a good editorial here supports this view www.nytimes.com/[...]
Whether it's Bernie, Warren, or really anyone but Biden they will have my support, and although I am someone who probably falls on the far left of the political line in the United States, I also recognize that the United States as a whole is not. I certainly agree that steps towards a higher level of social programs and support are needed in the US, but it needs to happen at a rate that the nation as a whole feels comfortable with, otherwise in the end, leftward leaning people are always gonna get walloped by the fact that 'Socialist' is still perceived as a dirty word in the US and there will be 4 more years of you know who. I'm not gonna bash Warren, Bernie, or even Klobuchar, I think they're cool. But pleas, jj123 and herenow, go ahead and make a pitch for the person you support instead of this trollish like fact-less attacks of the person I like.
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted byGood adivce, thanks GoKM! Buttigieg 2020!
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted byGood adivce, thanks GoKM! Buttigieg 2020!