Not sure how going out & raising hell affects teaching, but of course drunk/stoned people teaching ESL classes or overtly chasing/annoying students of the opposite sex, or perhaps of the same sex, in & out of the classroom, is usually a negative.
Well, perhaps I don't go to enough parks - Cuihu (Green Lake Park) is about it - but I haven't seen a lot of tents or a lot of green space. Cuihu on a weekend is sometimes a bit crowded, but it's okay and in a nice area of the city.
@ dudeson: Much of what you have to say might be useful for discussion if it were not consciously exaggerated and/or stated in wilfully insulting terms.
Is this correct, tiger? I have sent documents (not packages) by EMS but packed them at the local post office, didn't have to go to the depot.
I agree that the words racist, racism etc. are often loosely thrown around. Most definitions of 'race' are too vague to be meaningful, and the traditional one is simply false. In that latter sense, if you believe that 'races' exist at all, you are simply mistaken and have a racist outlook.
We all need to get over this crap, which is divisive in the worst way. For various historical reasons, clumps of gene pools exist, without any clear borders. For somewhat different historical reasons, socio-cultural categories have grown up in minds, and it is these categories, conflated with inaccurate ideas about genetics or 'blood', that are the basis for the inaccurate or vague definitions and for the practice of racism. Racism exists, but not race.
That's it. The ad appeals to racist thinking, and clearly promotes color prejudice. As such it is nasty, by whatever definition.
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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 countryside wedding in Lincang
Posted byAnd it was all good. Congratulations & best wishes always!
Yeah, a few more articles like this one, which connect real people in the foreign community with real Chinese people (despite occasional cultural unfamiliarities), rather than the simple recounting of relationships involving stereotypical misunderstandings on both sides that often appear in the forums.
Welcome to the new GoKunming!
Posted byI'm sorry but I don't find any improvement with the new format - I don't mean it's any worse, just that this kind of shifting of things around is more trouble than it's worth, both for the website folks & for the users. Add concrete content, okay; but don't bother with the appearances thing.
Wulong Quest 2013 or The Great Turtle Pull
Posted byReally, really stupid.
Lincang eyeglasses fundraiser
Posted byGood idea, hope people will contribute whatever they can - imagine being sent to school & not being able to afford glasses to see the blackboard! Elementary education may be free in China but there are seemingly minor expenses that prevent many poor in the countryside from taking full advantage of them - not exactly a level playing field.
Kunming: A New Perspective
Posted byIs there a 'search' button somewhere? If not, the site badly needs one.