Arrival in Kunming

Here it is, Kunming. We (I’m with A. and D.) slowly discover the city, exciting moments as we are going to stay almost 5 months here!
Kunming is huge and impressive. As D. said, very surprised, it looks like Las Vegas…
We arrived Friday night and my tutor FZ. was there as planned, despite our plane being a little late (30 min?).
FZ came with a car and a driver from university. He took us at the apartment: as it was the third day after Chinese New Year, there are still a lot of fireworks everywhere. The area where we live and the building is not looking good and to arrive in the dark with all these explosions (some very loud) was funny (for me anyway). But the apartment looks really good. We finally understood today (Saturday) that the apartment was the one used last year by our predecessors: we found the box my friend F. (which were supposed to be mailed by the already “mythic” PG.
FZ is very nice. He answered all our dumbest questions smiling and finally took us to have dinner (he came back when he found a pizza place still open (it was after 10pm). He said he would be away from the city for 4 days, taking some holidays.
Today we went down town to Carrefour, walking (we saw it on the road last night and decide to find it): we could have a tour in the city as well. We did eat at MacDonald but I had a “triangle wrap” or was it “wrapped triangle”, something definitely Chinese ;-)
We bought plenty of things to clean up the apartment: it was like the big spring clean up, we took a taxi back.

Here, you can see the modern-rich next to very old buildings and unclean places. The Chinese are really nice if you ask them anything. It’s just very difficult to deal with them. We can’t wait to improve our Chinese!
For example, impossible to get why the woman (one staff in Carrefour) didn’t want us to buy the red sceau and the blue washing-stick. She did say “bu shi” =“it’s not it” but wasn’t proposing something else….

We have the phone at home. You can find internet café at every corner….
Better go to bed if I wanna catch up with the jetlag: it’s 3am.