Kunming according to Julia

## How does my partner discribe Kunming?

1.warm

Kunming is a very warm city. The tempratures are high the whole year and it is never really cold.

2.slow

The people spend their time slowly.

3.special birds

Seagulls, which are special birds spend their winter in Kuniming until spring.

4.national minorities

There are 56 minorities in whole China and 26 out of them are in Kunming.

5. rice noodles

In Kunming rice noodles are very popular. The backround story: A young man wanted to go to university. His wife wanted to inspire him and cooked the noodles, to wish him good luck.

I would like to visit Kunming sometime. Especially I would like to see the seagulls and sketch them into my little sketchbook. Furthermore, the relaxed atmosphere of the city sounds amazing. The rice noodles sound very tasty, so I would love to try them out. All in all, I think it could be a very nice and inspiring experience.

## School life

Firstly, in one class are about 41 students. They have 9-course subjects for example biology. A typical school day schedule and activities start at 7:45 and go to 17:15 within a two-hour break from 12:00 to 14:00. Then from 6 pm to 7 pm and from 7 pm to 9 pm. For doing your homework you normally need 5 hours. The options after graduation are to go to university, study abroad, get a job or do a gap year and travel around the world.

Three tips for a student from Goslar exchanging in Kunming:

It can be really stressful and challenging for students from Goslar, because of the long school days.

Secondly, students from Goslar should pack clothes that fit to the warm weather.

Thirdly, credit cards and cash aren’t preferred to use, but mobile payment is very common.

## A one-day excursion in Kunming

The day starts at 5 am, the students will take the bus to the West mountain where they can admire when the sun rises. At 9 am the students go to the lake by bus and eat rice noodles for breakfast. After that at 11 am they will go to the golden temple by bus, which could be really interesting for the students because of the historical backround. Furthermore, the students eat lunch in the south street and after lunch, at 3 pm they will walk to the golden horse green jade gate. In addition to that, they will walk, because of some religious and cultural things to the Haze temple.

How we can we make the excursion greener?

Firstly, we can replace the bus by a bycicle.

Secondlly, we can use our own containers instead of paper containers.

Thirdly, we can make food by ourselfs.

## Food

**sweet and sour pork**

For sweet and sour pork you need eleven ingredients which are chine, green onion, cooking wine, salt, starch, flour, egg, tomato sauce, vinegar, white sugar, and oil. It tastes sweet and sour. Furthermore, the color of the dish is red. We think the dish would be very popular especially to teenagers.

10 steps:

1. cut the chine into very small spieces.
2. add the green onion, cooking wine and the salt into a bowl (A).
3. put the egg, the starch and the flour into the bowl and mix it.
4. put the oil into it
5. fry it for one or two minutes
6. put tomato sauce, vinegar, white sugar, the water and the starch into a new bowl (B)
7. mix in the new bowl for one minute
8. put some salt and sweet vinegar in it
9. boil in a bowl (B)
10. mix the two bowls.

In addition to that tea, rice noodles and, moon cake are some eating habits in Kunming.

## Festivals

The festival David introduced to me is the "spring festival". It is usually in February, but the date actually depends on the stars. On this day the house will be cleaned and they buy new clothes, but also candles and sacred to decorate the house. They will cook a lot of dishes and the whole family will stay for dinner. After that, every family will set off a firework and stay up the whole night to pass the old year and start a new year. In Addition to that in the center of the city will be a fair and children get a red package with money in it. All in all, it´s a festival where you spend more time with your family.