Why choose to study in a university? I'm not sure the language classes there are better than those at some private language schools, especially since you are apparently not looking to get a university degree (1-2 semesters). Perhaps it's cheaper?
@Moderator: It seems that at least 2 comments have been removed. I sympathize (in my imagination), but I think 'derail' needs some explanation.
HFCampo: 1. What if husband is not an English speaker?
2. Should husband also learn Chinese to establish good communication? Especially if he is not returning to 'the west'.
Another point ought to be clear: tuitions in UK, US & elsewhere have gone ridiculous - I doubt if many Chinese students have to go into debt for up to 10 years after they graduate - talk about social control! Different ways to do it in different places, but 10 years of debt to pay off means you've got to go to work for the Man, or have no credit rating (probably the best solution).
If there were fewer damn cars there'd be fewer to wash.
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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.
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.
Too bourgeois.
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.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
A quick guide to Kunming's Metro Line 2
Posted by85 bus, as well as others, is particularly infrequent now from about 5-6:30, you might have to wait as much as 20 minutes. Thank widespread private automobile ownership here for that. 8 years ago you could get any bus anytime anywhere (before about 10:15PM) in about 5 minutes, and no journey within the city limits took more than 1/2 hour. Progress is wonderful - now, for several zillion dollars, the metro will make this possible again - just stay out of the automobile sewers, which spill over onto the sidewalks.
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
Posted byNo, just keep him locked up.
Snapshot: Saima Jie, Yunnan's Tibetan horse festival
Posted byControl freakery > annoyance & resistance > more control freakery > more...> ... > disasters.
As rainy season comes to a close, reservoir levels look encouraging
Posted byGood question - it started in May rather than late May or early June this year, dumped more water than usual all summer, and now we're in late September - a lot more rain in September than usual.
Things change.
Chenggong holds no-car day with eye on future
Posted byBe nice if they'd do this more often in the rest of the city too. And 'no car' days are nice, but they need to get serious over the long run.