As we’ve reached the end of 2018, I’ve run out of time to write in any detail about our two weeks in Kunming (with a three day trip to Dali in the middle of it). So I’m just going to finish off this blog with a thank-you to all the people who made our trip such a wonderful experience. You can meet Jiang, Candy, Shirly, Jason, Anqi and Zhouyi in the blog archives for May, June and October. You can meet Anqi’s parents, Yuzhi and Jianjun, her brother Liujia and other family members in the blog archive for October. My November post is all about our meeting with Qianqian’s friend San Lang and her mother in Chengdu. And you can read below about the afternoon we spent with Qianqian’s students, our visit to the Nightingale Music School and the special evening at the Sichuan opera with Qianqian and her friend Shanshan.
I could write so much more about our two weeks in Kunming, where the staff at the Lost Garden Guest House became good friends and we particularly want to thank DuXi (aka Shrek) , and his friend Zhouyu who took us to Chen Li’s studio (see July post for our introduction to Chen Li in London) and arranged for Ian to play in a restaurant near our hotel.
  |  |
Du Xi is a photographer and when he had to go off to Japan, Zhouyu and her friend Rouyi took us to the new Yunnan Museum and out for “grab hands rice”.
In Kunming we also spent a couple of days with Xing Xing, a schoolfriend of Qianqian’s from their home province of Henan, and her friend Zhangjilai.
In Kunming we also spent a couple of days with Xing Xing, a schoolfriend of Qianqian’s from their home province of Henan, and her friend Zhangjilai.
Xing Xing took us around the campus of Yunnan University, where she and Zhangjilai are doctoral students. She is hoping to come to the UK on a post-doctoral programme next year but needs to pass an English exam to qualify for government funding. If anyone reading this has an interest in material metaphysics and would like to help Xing xing practice talking about this in English, please let us know!
 |  When we took the train to Dali DuXi had already put us in touch with hotel manager Lingling (aka Wendy, pictured left with her colleague), who arranged our excursion up Canshang mountain and looked after us in Dali. |
RSS Feed