Well, despite the best efforts of terrorists, airlines forcing me to buy a return ticket at the last minute, my credit card not working and then the plane getting struck by lightning, I finally made it back to China. I stopped off in Chengdu and picked up Laurent, then we both came to Kunming together. He stayed here a week and we did some sightseeing together, which was cool.
The city seems like a cool place - I am just starting to find my way around etc. I really like the university campus. It has lots of trees, flowers and shaded areas. We're about 15-20 mins by bus from the centre of town and the buses are really crowded. Yippee! That's only going to get worse with all the students returning, so I am trying to get hold of a bike so that I can be a bit more independent etc.
There are a few other foreign teachers here at the university, some older and some around my age. Everyone seems nice and quite a lot are new to the university this year, so there's a good feeling of all helping each other - any new information (which is kind of like gold dust in this place!) is quickly shared.
Anyway, here are some photos in and around Kunming. I'll write more soon about life here etc.
