Meetings in Kunming

We are getting busy here and it's fun! It all started a Friday morning, when our toilet got stuck in our flat. Good start. We try to arrange it ourselves without any form of success. We finally ask our English-speaking friend P. we got by going often for dinner in her “Mark’s café”. Explaining what we need (what we thought we need) was not so easy, we finally found some materials but it didn’t have any effect. We finally had to call a guy whose job is to repair toilets. Our friend P. called him and introduced us to a teacher from the university who could speak English and help us with the guy in our apartment. Very nice guy.
Then we went out: we wanted to try the Friday night parties at the “speakeasy bar”. It was first difficult to get part of the crowd of Chinese and western young people. A. was pretty good at talking to people, asking them for advice. I was not in the mood. After a few drinks, D. went dancing and I went along. We had a lot of fun. Of course we found some familiar faces... Oh yeah, that’s because we began to go to the “French café”, a place where many foreigners go.
The next day, we met Dan and Tim. Dan has a blog (called suitcasing.com) and got recently a flickr.com account. I had him as a contact in flickr as he was in Kunming and that’s how it started. It was really cool.
At night, we had our meal at the “Mark café” which is not daily but is becoming a regular event. Our friend P. introduced us to a 25-year-old Chinese girl who is an English teacher and her friend. We had a little talk and agreed that she would show us shop (where A. and D. would find there size). At 10 am, we headed for the shops (in the French café neighbourhood) with her and another friend speaking good English. We had lunch at the “lake view restaurants” (“view on the green lake”). At night, we celebrated the friend birthday at the Mark’s café… another big meal. We’ll certainly exchange language course (looks like we could help in French).
After this hard day, we came back to the apartment to call our teacher for our project: we won the right to have a meeting the next day at 8:30 am. And a surprise visit of my teacher who explained me in more details the project... So today we went to the university for the first time and met the people. We will have a meeting Wednesday with the big boss. It's quite exciting but we have to be patient...
Tonight, as I was alone for dinner, I went to the Mark’s café and I did well ‘cause I got introduced again to a new person... I could go on and on like that. Once it started, you can stop it.
We have a plan to go to “the hump” on Friday to see a punk concert (?) and it look like I could get music band opportunities...