Enjoyable summer in Kunming

I participated in the Minds Abroad summer program this year. Overall the program was very enjoyable. I appreciated my Chinese teacher, last year I spent a summer in Beijing and I found Kunming was MUCH nicer (traffic, pollution and esp in terms of weather).

I thought one particularly interesting part of the program was how it involved local Chinese students as volunteer and language exchange partners. Not only having a group of American and European students but also having Chinese students to social with was different from my previous experience. This particularly made the afternoon volunteering fun and also helped us communicate with the children in the migrant workers school.