picture time!

I do not have a camera right now, and may not get one for a while. But I am providing some pictures other people have taken.

Before the chinese moon festival (mid-autumn festival), mooncakes were being sold everywhere. The day (this year it was on the 6th) is an occasion for families to get together, watch the moon, have a reunion.


This is a food stand on the street. I was hanging out with two tourists that I met, an Israeli girl (student) and a Vietnamese-Canadian man. Can you pick me out? Haha.


This is picture of me with a stupid expression. I had just eaten a meat stick, I think.


This is cuihu, green lake. It's near a few of the universities, and is a really cool place to hang out. It's easy to get lost in, and there's always some activity going on.


Just a picture of some of the above-said activity going on in cuihu.


On the day we were there, there was a stage and some kind of show being put on. The stage host called up some suaige, young handsome men, to participate in a contest. The contest turned out to be watching some sexy young woman dance scandalously and having each man imitate her.


A close-up of the girl... to re-state, it is not me with the camera!!


I felt a craving for choudoufu - stinky tofu.


Writing peoples' names. They do this in New York, too.


This is the woman who sold us some street food. At the moment, I can't recall what chinese minority she's supposed to me.


This is me making another stupid expression. We're eating some tofu-based food.


The other two thought this kid was adorable, so they took her picture.


Here is the three of us after our mini-tour of Kunming!


This is my "family." The second from left is my guma - she's my grandmother's best friend's daughter. Her husband is to her right, and their son is on the other end. His wife is next to him (I think she looks like a Chinese version of the woman in Being John Malkovitch and 40 Year Old Virgin), and their younger daughter is there, as well. We all hung out on Moon Festival night, and the son and daughter-in-law invited me to their (very swanky) apartment afterwards. I feel really fortunate to have some "family" in this city.