11Jan/094
You Know You’ve Lived in Kunming Too Long When…
1. You bring beers to business meetings- in the middle of the afternoon.
2. You complain when you have to pay more than 8 yuan for a Tsingtao at a bar
3. You think the notion of working more than 20 hours per week is crazy
4. You have heated discussions about which cafe serves the best cappucino
5. You refuse to eat anywhere that doesn't allow smoking
6. You develop a strong dislike of virtually every other city in China
7. Everyone knows you....in Dali. And Lijiang.
8. Your Chinese atrophies
9. You lose the ability to relate to people who don't live in Kunming.
10. You begin sentences with, "Back when I lived in the real world..."
January 11th, 2009 - 14:12
Man, sounds great. At the end of the day, I belong in places like this.
Although, I’ve never even been out there, It’s been on my list of places I need to travel to for a long time. Hopefully this summer of next winter…
At the same time, I’m about to make a move in the other direction and head back down the Changjiang to Shanghai. There are definitely benefits, but I’m sure there’ll be times I pine for the slow life.
January 12th, 2009 - 16:07
“8. Your Chinese atrophies”
A friend of mine spent some time studying Chinese in Kunming and that’s half the reason he founded the “Freeze Your Arse Off” school of Chinese study- find somewhere small with very few foreigners in the north, that way you don’t have anything to do but study (and you minimise the negative influence from the local dialect).
And re. point 4: Seems the only drug Yunnan doesn’t do well in is ethanol. Gotta love a province that produces coffee. And pu’er tea… that’s good stuff, too.
January 21st, 2009 - 08:38
9: When your blog entries grow less and less frequent…
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