| At Sally's House |
[Apr. 29th, 2007|04:31 pm] |
Whoa, another update from Missie? And so soon? Well, I'm feeling motivated lately, and I'm leaving tomorrow on spring break. I thought it'd be pretty pathetic if I couldn't get my winter break report finished before spring break!
After I left Happy's house, I went to another student's home; her English name is Sally. I was nervous before visiting Happy, because we hadn't been close before, I didn't feel that way about visiting Sally, as we were already good friends. (I did get much closer to Happy through the course of my visit with her.)
( Click for pretty pictures! )
Remember! You can click on any photo to see more at my Picasa Web Album. This trip, especially, had lots of beautiful pictures. |
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| Staying at Happy's House |
[Apr. 24th, 2007|09:29 pm] |
Well, now that we're at midterms in the spring term, it's a great time to talk about some more of my in-between-terms vacation, right?
Right?
Okay, so it's been a long time. This term has flown by.
The rest of this vacation was spent at the homes of two different students. The first student lives in Fenggang (Dongguan), which is a suburb of a good-sized city near Guangzhou, and her name is Happy. In her home, there are: her father, her older brother, younger sister (April), and her little cousin (Jenny). Her mother came home for the New Year's holiday, too.
( Pictures and more behind cut! )
My final vacation post should be coming in the next few days. I say should, because I never seem to move as fast as I think I will on these things. I do want to get it done before I leave for the May (week-long) vacation, though.
P.S. I realized that I never mentioned: click on any of the pictures to go to my Picasa web album, where there are more photos. |
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| Chengdu, Part 2 |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|01:06 am] |
Sorry for the long delay, but I was trying to figure out a good way to bypass the filter on the school's internet. Apparently, most blog sites are currently not allowed. Grrr... They did this before, but only for about a week, and this time it's at about 18 days.
Anyway, I obviously figured out a way around that, it's just annoying, because I can't stay signed in, and I can't access friends-only posts at all, even my own.
So, I left off with Chengdu. By the way, there was a little bit that was cut out of the last post because of bit of wrong code, so if you wondered why I was laughing about the green goat, you might want to go back and reread it. :-)
One of the other things I did in Sichuan was to visit a town near to Chengdu to see the tallest statue of Buddha in the world. I was sure that I had seen another statue billed as the "largest", but then I remembered that that one was laying on its side, so the one I saw probably is taller.
Anyway, it's located in a town called Leshan (Happy Mountain, which, you have to admit, is a great name for a town), and through a friend, we got a local guide (Alice), which is always a wonderful thing to have!
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Don't worry, there's still more to my vacation experiences that will be posted later! |
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| Chengdu, part 1 |
[Feb. 13th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
Six lovely weeks of vacation! (I hear my friend Mirna groan)
Well, this update will be about the first part of my vacation, which was in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Most of you have heard of Sichuan food (almost all Chinese restaurants in America claim Sichuan (Szechuan) style food). It's very delicious, but I warn the foreigner (even those who may think that their tongues are tough) to be wary of native Sichuanese claims that "it's not hot".
I stayed with some friends from home, who have some lovely children, both of whom love to feed fish.
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| National Holiday Vacation! |
[Oct. 25th, 2006|09:44 pm] |
When I last updated, Karen and I were standing at the side of the road with a bunch of Chinese people, waiting for the replacement bus after the first one broke down on the way to Fuzhou.
Of course, the replacement finally did come, even though it was just short of the time that our fellow-travelers had told me they were considering the company's deadline. If they had taken any longer, we were going to call the police to bring us home, because we were literally in the middle of nowhere.
So, we got to our friends' house, and we spent a lovely, relaxing week with them. We saw some sights, but didn't stress ourselves out with trying to see everything.
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Also, another short video clip: They have these great Firework Lights all over in China, and I've never seen them at home. This is at the town square, Fuzhou.
P.S. I now hate Photobucket, and am currently enjoying Picasa. I kind of wish it wouldn't shrink the photos so much when I post them here, but I guess it's easier for readers who don't have fast connections. |
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