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Kunming, China

My roommate got a really nice new camera, so he let me have fun with it around our neighborhood. Some pictures are taken by him or others. I actually attempted to take pictures of people so that you all could get a sense of the local population on a regular Sunday afternoon. We started off with lunch at The Chef's restaurant, so you can see his family as well. If you click on some of the pictures, I think you can see my descriptions of them. Unfortunately I don't think they are viewable on the blog post.

The chef's wife (with son)

The (notorious) chef's son

All of us in front of the restaurant

Today, there were of little kids dressed up like butterflies

Even boys were dressed like butterflies

He was shaking the leaves from the trees. Seriously.

People were standing around to watch

Standing around watching the leaves fall

Enthralled with the man shaking the dead leaves from the tree

Shaking the tree

She was really cute

Ilaria bargaining for bulbs at the Bird and Flower Market

Everyone wants to buy something

Knitting while walking or browsing the market

Some kind of root vegetable?

Grandmother and grand-daughter

sitting in the square

baby meets statue

Selling orchids

Selling sweet potatoes

Main entrance to the Hospital down the street

Family on a motorbike

One of the guards for my building complex

written by

agentsarainkunming on December 6, 2009 from Kunming, China

from the travel blog: CHINA

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i love the picture with you and the blackboard! miss you and we need to skype very soon. why don't you have your own camera miss Globe trotter?! BLAH don't you want to come take finals for me? i am currently writing a ten pager on ADHD. i bet you are eating noodles or at the market or teaching children English or something exciting like that. i'd rather be doing any of those things than sitting in the library for hours. SKYPE SOON!
-fruit

written by Hannah Stein on December 6, 2009

Hello Number One daughter,

What a fun introduction to your neighborhood and the people of Kunming! Busy, busy, busy - there's always something happening in the streets in China! Grrrrreat pictures - really gives us a feel for the place!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

XOXOXOXO
Yo mama

written by Jeanne Segal on December 6, 2009

Look, Jeannie signs her messages from "yo mama" just like mine does. I wonder where they got that from.
I love looking at the pictures, and the ones of your apartment, too - it looks like a nice setup! Although I sympathize with you on the no central-heating problem. I personally have heat, but also an apartment designed to keep heat out, not in, which is often problematic/expensive. Also having travelled and stayed in the south of Spain, like Andalucia, where they also seem to believe in eternal Spring/summer (ignoring the fact that 40 degrees fahrenheit is not exactly room temperature), i've definitely huddled through a night or two in multiple layers of clothing with an electric heater on full-blast. I also loved th picture of you & co. outside the restaurant! What luck to get free meals! Th emost I get is free tapas from the guy with the mullet who like my roommate at our favorite soccer-match viewing bar. ;)
I miss you, but it looks like your adventure is definitely worthwhile!! we'll talk again soon.
LOVE YOU!!!!!

written by Anna on December 18, 2009

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