tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76062984962265478982024-03-13T02:05:13.964-07:00An Oregonian in Chinasomberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-16605606366143597732013-06-11T20:51:00.002-07:002013-06-11T20:51:59.255-07:00Back in the States?!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So I made it back! I know I need to tell the story of our "graduation" and last days in China, but for now I will just say that I'm surprised how hard it was to leave. But I returned to Oregon in the midst of early summer, which is really, really, gorgeous. Also, my family and strawberry season, so good stuff all around.</div>
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Sideways view from our front porch in the morning.</div>
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Running "in town"</div>
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More running "in town"</div>
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Driving to the airport! So I was home for 5 days, and then off to Santa Barbara for my internship with Sonos. Though upon arrival I had no idea what I would be doing, thank to my Mom I had already found an awesome housing situation, so I figured no matter what it would be an awesome summer. But this sort of weather and company was hard to leave.</div>
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Zach had driven my car down to SB for me, and then he also got to visit his friends, so good for both of us I hope. I arrived and was greeted by my fantastic housemates, got a tour of the house, unpacked (you know me), and woke up to some... gray skies. But my housemates took me out for Brunch, which was delicious and filled with wonderful company. After brunch they took me on a quick tour of Santa Barbara, including the Mission, where we saw this plant!</div>
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We also went to the courthouse, which had been mysteriously rented out "for a company event" but no one knew the company name. We watched them set up from the tour and speculated, but no conclusions were reached.</div>
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The next day, Monday, I started work! After orientation we got shown to our desks. But it turns out it's not very practical for me to work away from my team, so I ended up sitting in Paul (who is at the Apple Conference)'s seat. Today I finished getting adequate permissions and software, but now I have a working build and am ready to start! PS: I am Soooooooo happy I get to use a mac for work (and a nice one!) </div>
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Today I joined a housemate for dinner at The Natural Cafe, which is amazing and I highly recommend it. We sat outside so we could also watch the farmers market people walk by. This was some delicious pizza. </div>
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I also got some flowers! </div>
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Alright, well, it's 20:50, which is pretty much bed time for me. I'll write more soon, I don't know if I'll change the URL, probably not, and the blog will just morph into me taking pictures of food and running views in America... and Yes, I will try to do a "reflective China post", but no guarantees :)</div>
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Ahh it's hard to believe, but only 3 days left until I'm back in the States. Needless to say, my feelings are mixed, but for now a catch-up post!</div>
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Delicious strawberry smoothie! It gets really hot here sometimes, which means my erhu classes are positively sweltering, so after class sometimes I go to this shop for a delicious cool beverage. </div>
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I made cinnamon rolls with my roommate! Here they are baking. While we were making them my roomie was really confused, but once they were on the pan she recognized them :) </div>
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We also made Baozi! But we didn't have a steaming apparatus, so we constructed one out of chopsticks. </div>
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This is a picture of our last Language Table meal. Delicious items all around.</div>
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And then it was my Birthday! So I had erhu class (since it was a Friday), and the new song for that day was "Happy Birthday"! Which meant I told my teacher, so then the receptionist suggested we all take pictures together, so we did! Which is good, since for my last class (tomorrow... ) I think I'll be too saddened by the thought to take smiley pictures.</div>
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My teacher and I!</div>
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My best friend from high school had told her mom (who lives in Shanghai) that I was in the area, so her mom invited me to come stay with her for the weekend, but since time is ticking, I could only stay Saturday->Sunday. So I was off to the train station early Saturday morning. It was super hot and muggy, so I figured I'd buy flowers for her mom when I got to Shanghai (at a flower shop I'd found near the subway station). After a sweaty bus ride in strange morning traffic, I decided to splurge on the faster train to Shanghai (1hr not 2+) so after waiting in line for awhile (people kept arguing that they weren't given the ticket they wanted) I was off! Once at the train station I transferred to Line 2, for another hour, but it was air conditioned and all, so not bad. Mama Yu was too on the ball for me to sneak over to get flowers- she called me while I was still on the subway with 30 min left, she was already waiting at the subway stop for me! After a very warm reception, we dropped my stuff off at her lovely house, and then went to see the sights and eat delicious things!</div>
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We imbibed delicious things at this place!</div>
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Tour of Shanghai by night! Mama Yu even pulled over so I could take better pictures!</div>
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On Sunday we took pictures of me throughout the house- me in the guest room!</div>
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We went to a supermarket which thad many sorts of items from other countries, including my 2nd favorite sandwich compliment, Sun Chips!</div>
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My favorite Ginger Ale!!?!</div>
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And then we got what was possibly the most delicious Brunch I have ever eaten. After I was bestowed with many food items to bring back with me, we headed off to the subway and I started my ride back. Mama Yu was so nice to me! I had the best time in Shanghai, and I hope to repay the good times some day. </div>
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And then it was finals week! Not much happened, we did make burritos, including hand made tortillas, after an epic quest to find cheese. So tomorrow we have our graduation ceremony, I have my last erhu class, and then Sunday is packing and all, Monday morning 3hr bus to Shanghai airport, then the flying back starts! </div>
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Well, as could probably have been predicted by my trend of posting increasingly infrequently, it's been awhile. I've been up to all sorts of wandering, and a lot of writing for classes, though I have yet to make significant progress on reading 铁凝's short stories, which I need to do for my June 1st thesis proposal due date. I've been practicing playing my erhu, I learned how to change hand positions last class, which was exciting! But anyways,</div>
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I discovered my love for this fruit, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_rubra" target="_blank">Chinese Bayberry</a></div>
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I have been trying out different kinds of , though usually I have no idea what the fruit flavors are. This one I like because it has mulberry!</div>
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Sunny times! Also, the guy stretching in cameo pants is also playing a flute. He stretched and played for 1/2 hour</div>
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Our fan in our room. The A/C is noisy and not very effective, so we just use our trusty ceiling fan.</div>
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We went to a fan making factory!</div>
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All of these tiny golden specks are hand painted characters. It's really impressive.</div>
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And.... the less impressive offering painted by yours truly. In my defense, I was in a hurry to get to my erhu class. </div>
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I went to a student activity center to interview people for class!</div>
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And I found Ovaltine! Still not able to drink it, which is a pity because the nutrients would surely be an excellent supplement to my current fare of PB&J for most meals. </div>
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At the top of a hill I was running up and down, I met a Chinese man whose English was very good, and we chatted in English and Chinese about his work. Needless to say, I abandoned my hill running to talk to him, and hike around the mountain. </div>
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It was nice to see the sky again! If this weekend was any sign, when I get back to the states I'll constantly exclaim about the blueness of the sky. </div>
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The next morning running, got a lot of strange looks but the air was so clean!</div>
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We took a boat to a nearby island for some sand filed not-fish scented beach time, </div>
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But of course there was a lot of trash, so I spent awhile picking it up before napping and eating copious amounts of PB & J. After utilizing a somewhat inefficient search methods to gather trash, being asked whether I was a local, being again asked if I was local, being told I had an "unusual spirit" and having lots of pictures taken of me, I managed to locate a trash bin(after being asked even more questions) , and after a couple loads I managed to place all the items I had found in it. I didn't take pictures of my piles, as I figure you guys can imagine, the most unexpected item I found was maybe a winter boot. There were a lot of plastic bottles. And styrofoam. I got some oil on my hands. </div>
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My new favorite fruit! I'm still not 100 percent on what kind of fruit it is, but I like it. Oh! And Lizhi are almost in season, after a long time I will once again feast on my favorite fruit! But right now they are still expensive, 1 lbs is 40 kuai, about 6 dollars. So I bought 5 and shared 2 and ate three with relish. Yum. Much to look forward to!</div>
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Which was nice, as this was the sort of hiking I was looking for. And eventually some sort of signs started to pop up, maybe there had been a race there recently? The Ascis logo was on them, it looked pretty official, so I was reassured on was on some sort of route.</div>
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Eventually I emerged from the wilderness, and started heading east to get back to the lake/bus routes. It appeared that I had entered some sort of a resort by way of a back route, so I tried to quickly make my way out of the premises. As I neared town, I saw this house, which also had its own large pond with those some nice stone walkways over the water, all really old looking. Of course they probably have a terrible mosquito problem in the summer, but I think it would be worth it. </div>
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Skip ahead a couple days, Spring Break is over, we're all back in the daily grind, except an easier version since it was our first week back. I was running on the track the other day, and there was this man, maybe 60 years old (hard for me to tell) and he was doing pullups, which I was impressed by. And then, he started doing those pullups where he would lift his entire body up and then continue up until he was vertical and upside down. After some googling I'm still not sure what that is called, but I found a video which pretty much sums up the early morning scene on the track, (there is a different area with more pullup bars). Excuse the music during the video (rap, so if you're young turn the sound off : ) ), and imagine all the people doing the exercises are 40-70, and that everyone but me is proceeding about their business. Video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0c40RHaPU" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Last Sunday I decided to walk to the West lake, since the weather was fantastic, and do my reading outside instead of living in my dorm room. Once I got there all the benches were full (of course, it was a Sunday) so I sat down with my back on a wall and with a nice view of the lake. I started reading and right away, I noticed shadows on the ground by my feet. It turned out that a foreigner reading characters was a rather remarkable event to the people walking by me. And so, they would gather around and watch me read, sometimes remarking to each other that I was in fact, a foreigner. Eventually an old man started to ask me some questions, but he had a very heavy Hangzhou accent, so I have a feeling I didn't always answer the question he had asked. He lapsed into silence, and stood by me watching the lake/observing the people who would gather around me. He started introducing my background to people who had gathered, but sometimes they couldn't understand him either. It was nice that he was there, it meant I actually got some reading down, and that when a large group of guys would come by and start asking "do you have a boyfriend" type questions, he sort of stared at them, and they moved on. But after about 40 minutes of this, I realized I wasn't going to get much reading done there, so I asked the old man if we could take a picture together and then I started walking to a more remote part of the lake.</div>
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I eventually settled here, where there was a chinese flute player playing some lovely Chinese melodies, and got down to my reading. It was amazingly beautiful, with the weather, environment and flute player. Plus it was sort of an island, so there wasn't anyone walking by.<br />
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So one night we were studying in our common room, and it was discovered that the Backstreet Boys are coming to Shanghai, while we're all still in China. Of course, the concert is during finals week, which sparked some controversy, but everyone was really excited. Eventually Tao Laoshi decided to move around finals so everyone could go. Well, not me, since I'm not sure who they are/I was probably listening to NPR when they were popular instead of them. Maybe I'll tag around to Shanghai, we'll see. </div>
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Adorable baby with the look I often see on Chinese people's faces when I walk by.</div>
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The classroom was very similar to an American classroom, 32 kids in this one, which was 1st graders. We stayed for a Math and Chinese class, both which I liked alot. The kids had to formally greet the teacher, keep certain postures during class/while reading, and had to stand up when answering questions. But the math class was great, it focused on concepts and was already introducing division. It was also lively, and there was no gender divide when it came to answering questions and whatnot.</div>
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After class I was swarmed by students, and I wanted to take a picture of this phenomenon, but they noticed my phone, and so I took a picture with some of them instead.</div>
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And here is a new vegetable market I went to! </div>
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<br />somberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-56692221625986727502013-04-12T07:30:00.002-07:002013-04-12T07:30:53.835-07:00Pizza and HikingIn an unexpected turn of events, I did some new things in the past couple of days- first off, we made pizza!<br />
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The cheese was expensive but hey, it was pretty good cheese. Though at this point my cheese judging capacity is probably impaired by the cheese deficit I have been experiencing. We made some for our roommates too! We being Maia and I, the only remaining students over spring break.<br />
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So, at this point you may be thinking, "Homemade pizza in China, how can one top that?"<br />
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But first we had to get there. Which proved to be a little difficult, as the articles we had read to "find" the routes, did not include maps, just rather vague directions. So I knew which mountains we wanted to climb, but had no idea on how to get up said mountains, which meant we asked people for directions a lot to get to the trail head, and then asked for more directions along the way, for good measure. We went into this cool cafe(?) to ask for directions.<br />
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Super super nice. You can see Hangzhou in the distance if you look closely.</div>
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Tea Fields! And Maia climbing up. </div>
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And that's it! I need to start doing my homework, the end of spring break sort of snuck up on me. </div>
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Last weekend I met up with a friend from Andover, Joel, and his friend from Beijing, where there are both studying abroad. I always forget how nice it is to talk to someone from Andover, and spend some time reminiscing, it reminds me I'm not the only one out there whose friends have heard way to much about their high school. </div>
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We went to a Starbucks after trying to meet up and go to the Tiger Spring. Some communication confusion meant we were on different ends of the lake, and then we found out the spring closed earlier than we thought it did. Plus we couldn't find taxis, we suspect because it was changing shift time. Anyways, so this is the view from the Starbucks! It's really really nice.</div>
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Joel noticed a terrace on the second floor, so we moved up to get even better views! That lighted up building in the distance is Lei Feng Ta, the Pagoda I went to a couple weeks back with Nikki ++ . Of course now that the weather is so nice, the mosquitos are out, but despite the small swarm hovering in the air around us, we didn't get bitten. Joel had a flight out at 22, so we tried to find a place to get a quick bite to eat, but everything looked fancy, so Joel asked one of the street vendors where he had gotten his food and we got pointed in the direction of some more reasonably priced options. And they were off! Maybe we'll meet again in the summer, I hope so at least.</div>
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So I decided to go for a sunset run to the West Lake, on the way I saw a protest! There were tons of cops and everyone was filming this, I couldn't understand what they were saying but I showed a recording to my roommate and she said they want higher wages. </div>
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You can see Hangzhou, the city! I'm on the North side of the lake, the city is on the east, and there are mountains on the south and west side. </div>
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And that's it! I haven't been up to much, cooking, erhu playing, running, researching who I want to write my thesis on, reading Harry Potter, sleeping.. Oh! Today we're going to try to make Pizza, we'll see how that goes, and Friday we're going to the mountains for an adventure at the least, and hiking at the best.</div>
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I drank this, not sure how the rice would be incorporated. Of course, there was black rice just sort of mixed in with the strawberry yogurt. It was different, but still good.</div>
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And my erhu teacher! So adorable. So patient. I will practice so much this week(spring break!), hopefully my fingers will be able to move one at a time instead of sort of involuntarily moving as a group in the near future.</div>
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This is the tea my tea teacher gave me! Notice how big the leaves are. It is the best tea I have ever had. It is from 安徽 Province, and has a light flavor, not bitter and not sweet. Sorry my description is so basic... The bad news is my teacher told me it was an expensive variety, the good news was I re-seeped the leaves 7 times and until the end the flavor was pretty consistent. When my teacher and I go to a tea store, I'll see if I can find some more, or maybe something similar. It's really good! You should all try it if I manage to locate some :)</div>
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At long last! I try the famed 龙井茶! Notice the slender smooth leaves. This is right when I got my tea, so the leaves are all still at the top. As they become more saturated, they sink. You add more hot water at your discretion- there is pot kept heated over a small flame by all the tables. </div>
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Some one else's tea. A lot of the women at the tea house preferred to drink flower teas, and the guys to drink green tea.</div>
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I noticed the typo while at the tea house.</div>
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One of the reasons people prefer to come to 青藤 tea house is because it's located right next to the lake! So I went for a stroll after my leisurely afternoon (leisurely other than the interview part of course)</div>
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Then I ventured into a McDonalds to take this picture for you guys. McDonalds here are "high quality" and offer things that look like Starbucks should have.</div>
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On Friday I went urban hiking and walked past a bookstore. So I went inside, spent way too long, but look what I found! </div>
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Running to the lake yesterday, I took a new route which I like better. The view is gorgeous for pretty much the entire run!</div>
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Also found while "hiking" some delicious snacks. I noticed a lot of people were crowded around a booth, so I approached and asked one of the customers what their favorite flavor was, and they offered to let me try the kind they were buying, reassured me that this was an excellent price, at which point the vender noticed me and gave me a slice to try. It is very good, and next time I'll try more flavors, I think I was too flustered to think to try more at the time. </div>
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As I perused this sign, I was swiftly surrounded by older ladies asking me if I wanted to buy tea/come to their houses and drink tea. Some of them were assuaged by me saying no thank you, but some of them were more persistent. I have yet to try this famed tea because I'm too wary of being cheated, but I hope when the new harvest comes out I'll go get some. </div>
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In the park/historic site, well worth the 5 kuai of admission.</div>
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So on the way back I didn't have any spare change/I wanted to see what the countryside looked like, so I walked back to where I needed to change buses. </div>
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I also ran into this memorial hall for heroes who died in the 1911 revolution. It was a serene place, and the first memorial hall I've seen, so it was a surprise to walk past it on the way back to the bus stop.</div>
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On Friday we decided to trek to a western style restaurant, which necessitated a bus ride, during which we met an older woman with the best English I have ever heard a Chinese person speak. She had studied English at Beijing Foreign studies university, and then taught English at Zhejiang University. We all exchanged numbers so maybe we'll see more of her.</div>
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On Saturday I took the bus to the West Lake so I could run around it and then run back, and I saw this:</div>
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On the way back to the bus stop we walked along the lake</div>
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Today I went to my Chinese tea research teachers house with Maia my teachers 1-on-1 student, but first we got foot massages, which was great, especially since one of my legs has been acting up, presumably since I spend forever sitting down in my customary leaning against everything position for many hours. I know, I should just stop, but I default to that position. Anyways, after the foot massage, my teacher made us food! </div>
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Her she is, with her husband and their 6 month old baby boy!</div>
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For my Hangzhou research class this week, one of my assignments was to go to a tea museum and interview visitors and the staff. Unfortunately getting to the museum required about 100 minutes of public transportation and 2 bus switches, but my roommate came with, so things couldn't go too wrong. Luckily people seem more willing to be interviewed in Hangzhou, so I got some good answers (if all pretty much what I expected to hear) to some questions about their tea drinking habits and the number of people who visit the museum. Some visit highlights:</div>
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So gorgeous! Hopefully next weekend/soon I'll come back to this area and bring a book. </div>
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I'm at the museum!</div>
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Oh! By the way my roommate is not featured in my pics because she had a bad haircutting experience, so now her bangs are not level. I mean, I think it looks fine, but she is waiting for them to grow out more before being featured in any photos. </div>
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Friday morning, before my weekly 10am test, I decided to run to the east lake. The weather was spectacular. The area I ran to had more wild life than previously. But I had to run along some main roads for awhile, during which I encountered signs such as this! (at least there are some nice looking flowers too :) And a traffic cop standing on a pedestal in the middle of the intersection! But my picture of that wasn't too good, so it isn't featured here)</div>
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We went to Mexican restaurant!! It turned out to be rather good- I got a burrito, though a little pricey, ~6 american dollars compared to the 1 I usually spend on a meal.</div>
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I had solo ventured to the east lake after our mexican food adventure, where I wandered around the lake while reading. When it started getting dark I decided to head back, but after waiting for buses back to campus and seeing that they were all packed, I decided to try the subway. Which was also packed, but slightly less so. Picture below- notice that the tv screen is airing footage of adorable kittens/guinea pig interaction. This is common during busy hours, and I really like this. It's hard to be annoyed about how many people there are when such adorableness is around.</div>
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In short, we went to Wenzheng two weekends ago! (Bc CET gave us 200 kuai reimbursement for any travel we did that weekend, and I find money irresistible, so instead of exploring Hangzhou, we were off!) My roomie had a dentist appointment, so she couldn't make it, but I went with 2 roommates + 1 Chinese friend and 2 other american students. It is an old traditional city, one of their traditional handicrafts is dying fabric- traditional method seen below.</div>
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More blanket shai-ing! Apparently if one doesn't do this, it is considered strange, as I was repeatedly asked by my teachers and other chinese roommates whether I was, so I did. My blanket then smelled like the sun. </div>
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A couple things I realized I hadn't written about: 高琳's mom's brother brought her a live Chinese New Year rooster, which sat tied up in the bathroom until 高琳's Dad killed and plucked it. Also, I received this handmade luggage tag and more baozi and mantou than I could eat for the trip.</div>
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After an exciting day of travel I was greeted by my adorable new roommate(佳丹) who immediately handed me an electric water bottle-like-thing and insisted I eat some fruit. After a few days of orientation, we've all settled in! There are only 9 foreign students, we all live in double rooms with a Chinese roommate. We also have our own bathrooms(with toilets) and hot water heaters, so pretty much really nice.<br />
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Part of orientation was foot massage!<br />
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And my view this morning! </div>
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So this was a lackluster post, but I'll post again with more info about my schedule etc :)</div>
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After dinner the making began! Here is on of the many fresh pieces I was given to eat, despite the fact that we had just eaten a very filling dinner :) Cute baby (and 高琳's mom)!<br />
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OK, so to make this food, they start steaming huge pots of rice every morning. The steamed rice is then scrapped into pots, and the pots of rice are tossed onto an angled table which has a funnel like head leading to the rice grinder. The grinder slowly releases the compressed and ground rice in the form of a stream of baobao! It's really hot, and someone has to cut the stream into chunks, then toss them onto a table, where lots of people (me too!) roll them so they don't stick to the cloth while they're so hot. Then other people carry the "cooled" baobao to a tray to cool further. Your hands get really hot but it was fun. There were lots of jokes about how I was the american working in a Chinese factory, and that we should go into business together- a joint US-China venture. Also suggested, somewhat inevitably, that I marry into the family. During the night one of their dogs, still a puppy, fell into their toilet and proceeded to evade capture for awhile, until he was caught and bathed. During the night one of the implements used to scrape the cooked rice into the grinder fell into the grinder, which meant the grinder had to be disassembled- while this was happening I learned how to play that game with a string/loop (cat.. something? I don't remember) from the small boy in the picture below and 高琳. This is the family photo!<br />
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That night I learned how to play sichuan mahjiang and went to my first bar! Which wasn't actually a bar, more of a tea shop, because after mahjiang with one group of friends, we met another to say goodbye/discuss their lives since they were leaving the next day. As usual, I was not allowed to help pay for our overpriced tea. </div>
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These are the Miao(?) people, famous for their silver works. One of the many ethnic groups you see in Yunnan regularly!</div>
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Our last restaurant excursion! Gaolin carefully considers what is vegetarian. The menu had some really good chinglish. </div>
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We met other friends for dinner, mahjiang and wandered around their old high school/middle school. Morning was packing a pictures, which I haven't uploaded yet. Anddd now I'm waiting in the airport in Kunming, after the 4.5 hr bus ride from WenShan. Though I'm excited to start a new semester/get to know another city, it was really hard to leave 高琳 and her family. Frankly, we were both crying a lot for a while, our only consolation was that we both said we'll visit Dalin or another city in the future when we have disposable incomes and free time. She really made my time in China super excel</div>
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We woke up to a gorgous day, and I for one could hardly believe how clean and warm the air was! We joined "little black" (高琳's friends nickname, as his skin is so dark) and his two cousins for a stroll around the lake/park, and found some lunch. Then back to his apartment to collect baggage, and then off to his friends hostel. Though initially somewhat dubious about it- it was located off an alley off a main street, on the 6th floor, and showed no sign of being anything other than an apartment- it ended up being clean, cheap and convenient. The proprietor gave us a set of keys, we chatted for awhile (as par Chinese tradition, we called her 姐姐 or "older sister")and we were off to have dinner at a russian style restaurant. </div>
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The next day we went to the zoo in search of cherry blossoms (a sight everyone had assured us was a must see) but as you may discern by the lack of photos, they weren't actually blooming yet, seemingly contrary to most denizen's beliefs. But it was interesting to see all the animals/zoo. Not many were very well cared for, and most had cages which were way to small.<br />
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We walked around the city, then studied some Chinese and English. The next day I accompanied 高琳's mom on what I thought was a trip to play mahjong, but turned into an adventure in which we accompnied a cousin to the police station to report the theft of her bag(lots of smoking, and some heated discussion took place on the safety of the city) and then to register her new car (I think? Still not sure what happened, but they fed me a strange ice cream bar and some sunflower seeds, so that was fine by me.) That night most of the family that lives in the area came over for dinner and mahjong playing, which I observed, but did not yet dare to participate in. The next day we went out for KTV with 高琳's friends, as little black's cousin was having a birthday. I was asked to take many photos with people, and also to go to a different room (there were two rooms filled with people, KTV loudly playing, people smoking cigarettes, and lots of drinking) to introduce myself. Apparently, introducing myself would usually consist of me drinking with them, but since I don't drink, fruit juice was procured for me (watermelon!) and so I knocked my juice with lots of beers, and everyone spoke very slowly and simply in common Chinese to ask me questions. At one point I was asked if I could find an American boyfriend for one of the girls. I was repeatedly asked whether I had any of the Chinese social media accounts (still don't) and also asked what I thought of the people of 文山, to which the only appropriate answer seemed to be "very friendly/welcoming!".</div>
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This morning we went to see a tower on the East Mountain. The original one had been there for a long time, but was destroyed during WW2. This new one was built about 20 years ago. </div>
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Since Spring Festival is quickly approaching, lots of people are walking around with live chickens. Really a lot of people. The city is suddenly full of chickens. This seems to be the preferred method of carrying them, though one morning while running I saw a man walking his- he was call for it and it would come, but its memory was short, so he had to do this every few steps.<br />
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And a new fruit for me! Initially unsure about what it was, it proved to be delicious (a sequence of events exceedingly common for me now- I'm rarely sure about the nature of the food I am eating, other than being veg of course) </div>
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This is the view from the top of the tower! Well, one of them, it's 360 degree view, so I had to pick and choose. As you may see, though 文山 is rather off the beaten path, it has developed very quickly, and is pretty big.<br />
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Since it's sunny here, 高琳 doesn't want her skin to get dark, so the umbrella is a must. She is very surprised that I don't like using it, and that I luxuriate in the sun. This was also when I tried sugar cane! Really cheap, but I think it is too sweet for my tastes. As 高琳 pointed out, it is what is used to make sugar. </div>
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We also went to a Chinese bookstore, where I got a book of middle school essays (高琳 says they are written very well, she says reading them makes her feel as if her writing should be better, I feel the same) and some calligraphy books. Speaking of which, I'm off! Hope this finds you all well! I'll try to stay more current in the future :) </div>
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My last days in Beijing were super busy, as we had two finals- two oral reports which we should at least partially memorize, and a written portion. As we learned a lot of characters in 3 weeks, it ended up being a fair amount of work. But here is photo from our last real lunch.</div>
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To top off all the studying, we also had to prepare that afore-meantioned skit! But it ended up being very enjoyable, starting off with the MCs performing an adaptation of "California Girls" with Beijing related lyrics(all in Chinese of course). A choice line translated is, "One month without seeing sunshine", which had us all laughing. Hard to capture the show in one photo (especially since I didn't take that many), but here is one of the first section of C section's skit.</div>
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Last run in Beijing! After several days of heavy pollution, it cleared up just in time for a last good run.</div>
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Graduation! Here is C class, (separated into 3-4 sections usually) and some of our teachers too. </div>
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It was with mixed feelings that I left Beijing. On the one hand, the air quality is hazardous for most of the time, but other than that and the other usual problems big cities have (wealth discrepancy ), I found myself really liking the city. But we had a flight to catch, so after a bus/taxi combo adventure, in which we thought we would miss our flight, we made it to the airport an hour early. And then it turned out I had missed a 7 when entering my passport to buy the ticket, which could have ended badly, but they said it was no problem. Though you can't see the sign, we made it through security.<br />
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The plane we took may have been bigger than the one I came to China on! And they fed us for free! Because our flight was delayed a bit, we ended up landing in Kunming around 2:20am, and got our bag around 3:00am, which meant we missed the last bus to the city. Instantly swarmed by cab drivers when we left the terminal, we settled on a female driver, who after some haggling agreed to drive us for 70 yuan, about 11 dollars. The new airport is rather far from the city, and to drive either way also requires paying tolls, so this was a very reasonable price. Additionally, after driving us to Gaolin's friends apartment's address, she waited with us until the friend appeared. And so, at around 4:00 am, we met her friend (who was from her hometown, they had been classmates through elementary and middle school, he had been watching over his cousins since he started his break, and would be leaving to 文山 the next day) and settled in for some sleep.<br />
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And so I arrived in the land of warmth, rice noodles, and clean air! More coming up.<br />
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So, on 26th, we went to a "rural village"about 3 hours drive from Beijing. Though this town was indeed in the countryside, we were told that the Chinese government had given the villagers money to move their houses from the landslide prone slopes they used to be on. Instead of building traditional style Chinese houses, the village leaders decided to turn their town into a tourist destination- people can pay to stay with a family, eat delicious food (they even sent some of the villagers to cooking school) and relax in the countryside. Nominally, we were there to interview the residents, but our family only had one person at the time(the husband was off gathering __ for spring festival) and to make sure we felt welcome, she spent all but the last 15 minutes in the kitchen, preparing an extraordinary amount of food. All in all, she seemed very happy with her new life, and after talking to classmates who had gone to other houses, they said their people seemed happy too. But as we discussed with our teachers, this is a sign of an interesting time for China- in which some city people begin to grow their own food, and the traditional farm life is a tourist draw.<br />
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After returning from this adventure, Gaolin and I went out to see a movie! We got popcorn (kettle corn) which was delicious. The movie was pretty good too :) </div>
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Sunday I visited Mimee's family again! We hung out, ate, went to a Sam's club, and ate some more. They were truly fantastic to me, I really enjoyed discussing some America vs China issues and playing with the cousins. Makes me wish I could stay in Beijing longer!</div>
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After trying credit cards, hangers, screwdrivers and various other tools, the handle/locking mechanism was finally pried off, and our classmates were freed! Needless to say, we decided to call it a night and return to our other studies. <div>
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Our calligraphy teacher in action! He's lived in Beijing his whole life, and after not understanding him for the first 3 meetings, I was finally able to decipher his heavy accent and talk to him. He was very interesting, plus his voice sounded like it should be on NPR- I'm sad to leave his class. After 4 meetings, we were to write a 4-character idiom on white paper (a daunting task). He assured us no matter how ugly the final result was, most foreigners wouldn't be able to tell me had made a mistake, so we shouldn't worry.</div>
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Hmm this was Wednesday- as our afternoon cultural activity we went to the Chinese Capital Museum- This photo does a rather poor job of capturing how huge the museum is- it was taken while riding up a very long escalator. (Note: the word for elevator and escalator is apparently the same in Chinese(电梯= electric lift), and I've never realized how weird the English words are until I tried to explain them) I went around the pillar area exhibt a couple times, because there are multiple layers in it, but limited ways to get back to the normal exhibition area. Additionally, the escalators there only went up, some floors were inaccessible by stair, and the elevator appeared to be broken. But it was pretty neat to see some of the pottery etc, though sadly calligraphy and painting exhibits were both closed, and most of the artifacts were from the Qing dynasty (not <i>old </i>by Chinese standard, but old by American ones).</div>
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Thursday! So after a brief directional mishap, I met 高琳 at her school, we had our usual cheap and delicious dinner, then we were off to her performance at a Chinese New Year celebration. We had almost front row seats! Look at all those fruits and what nots. People passed around the plates so everyone could try some.</div>
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Ahhh pictures why did you load in such a strange order? Anyways, this is my new favorite bread based food item. It has red bean and walnut paste in the middle. Indescribably hearty and good. </div>
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Back to the performance! It was super packed, you may be able to see all the people standing in the back.</div>
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OK, so interspersed among the musical etc performances were these games, which were pretty funny to watch. The hosts asked for 8 girl and 8 guy volunteers, then had them pair up, all without anyone knowing what they were doing. Then the guy put on a blindfold, carried the girl, and he had to pop balloons tied to a chair while in this predicament, then pick up a pingpong ball. </div>
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Another really funny game- 1/2 teachers, 1/2 students, they both put balloons around their ankles, separated into two teams, then havoc ensued as they tried to pop the other teams balloons while preserving theirs.<br />
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And the best part! 高琳and fellow dancer performed a traditional dance. Very graceful. After they finished we made a discrete exit so I could study for my Friday morning oral exam!</div>
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You may remember that I was planning an epic journey to visit Mimee's family last Sunday. Not actually hard- just one subway line switch and a lot of watching other people on the subway. It was a success! Of course it snowed, but that meant the air was actually quite good. Mimee's dad wasn't around, but here's a picture of me with them, feeling like a tree.<br />
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After chatting for awhile, and a super delicious lunch, we went window shopping, a new experience for me. </div>
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There were lots of rice cookers! Upon our return to their apartment, I was gifted with a thermos, as my brief interest in thermoses while shopping had been noted, and they apparently had one they hadn't used. I have since discovered that this thermos has a seemingly magical ability to keep beverages warm. Six hours later I still managed to scald my mouth.</div>
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I got quizzed on my ability to recognize characters, and lets say I was quickly outpaced by an 12(11?) year old. Notice the complicated looking ones which are especially in focus in the photo above :) </div>
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And I saw Mimee's baby photos!! So cute!</div>
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After a delicious homemade meal (so sumptious!) and playing Dominos with the cousins, I got sent home with some delicious vegetables and a feeling of being very welcome. Some of the kindest people I've met.</div>
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And then back to the grind of school! Broken up by a trip to a bakery where I got this delicious and adorable bun!</div>
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<br />And below we have a photo of another of my new favorite things to eat- Blackcurrant flavored yogurt(?) ! Not quite like the yougurt we have in the states, you squeeze it out of this bag or use a straw. There is a mysterious air pocket on the right side, whose use I have yet to determine (any guesses?)<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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And then the not so delicious. Though I was tentatively fine with sampling this apparent Beijing staple dish, my roommate said we would put it off for another day, so I have yet to see if it is actually the worlds most disgusting food... </div>
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<br />Since my goal for the trip was seeing the wall and hearing silence, I struck out on my own. I over heard lots of German conversations- apparently there are a lot of German businessmen in Beijing right now? I inched down some steep stairs on my butt, (had been fine going up them)- reminded me of Pre-O! Ate my PB&J on a quiet tower while reading and drinking my hot tea. (it was a pretty cold day, but alright when you were moving) Upon our return, I ventured to the subway to get some dinner and tea, and now I must study! Tomorrow I set off on an adventure to meet Mimee's mom- wish me luck ;)<br /><br />somberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-42219062643247545372013-01-18T07:08:00.001-08:002013-01-18T07:08:44.107-08:00Air-pocalypse is over!Whew sorry it's been so long! A lot has happened-<br />
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The air quality improved! No more not being able to see buildings!<br />
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These are from my first smog free run!<br />
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<br />As a cultural activity we learned how to stuff dumplings in different ways, then we were judged on the beauty of our dumplings. We then boiled them, but unfortunately mixed up the veggie and meat ones, so eating them required a bit of cautionary excavation.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Yummy street food! I'm such a rebel, it was spicy and cheap and good. Also featured, some delicious dragon fruit- which I was going to peel (bc that's how my host family had eaten it) but my roommate gave me the most incredulous look when I announced it- she recommended cutting it in half and scooping it out. Which in retrospect makes a lot of sense, as that's what I do with kiwis, and these really resemble kiwis. <div>
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My super cheap cup with chrysanthemum tea! A regular afternoon event. Relish the sight of this Chinese beverage, those of you still in America :) </div>
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We went to the national library! It's the biggest library in Asia (?), and I now have a "readers card"! There are a lot of people sleeping in this library. Sorta like American libraries.</div>
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Free drinking water! The cups are made of paper. </div>
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In front of 高琳's college! We blocked the first and most important character, of course.<br />
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There is no hot water in her dorm (so for showers they have to walk to another building) so students like to keep their hot water outside after they pick it up, so they don't have to haul it up stairs to their room, then back down, and then up to class). Usually there are alot more than this, but it's almost break so there aren't many students around.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like my flavor crispy crispy</td></tr>
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Off to the cake shop/高琳's University's district, which has lots of other universities, and thus lots of students and delicious and cheap food items.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We ate on the top floor of the cake shop, which was built for short people like us. Zach and Frank would have been crippled by this ceiling height.</td></tr>
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<br />Tomorrow we venture to the great wall! Should be an adventure, I've been told to wear as many layers as possible by my roommate, she also gave me a heating pouch. I'll let you all know how it goes.</div>
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somberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-20438527294814983582013-01-14T05:47:00.002-08:002013-01-14T05:47:38.684-08:00First real weekend!Despite forgetting to utilize the 70块 (about 11 dollars) reimbursement we could have gotten if we had gone to historical sites, this weekend was fantastic! I would describe it as a "eating my way through Beijing" weekend, though there is still so much more to try/eat! (I promise I am eating mom!)<br />
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Of course I have been running a lot- here is a scene from the park on Saturday morning.. hmm just kidding, my video can't upload. It was a large performance in the middle of the park of traditional "red songs" and all the older people walking around were joining in singing as they walked by, as in the past they were mandated to have sung them, which made for a vibrant/immersive listening experience. This sort of stuff happens all the time in the parks, especially the bigger ones like the one I run in. There are always older people up to something in the park- taiqi, dancing (and I meaning ballroom type dancing, anyone can join in and everyone gets really into it), this sport that has a racket like tennis, but the ball is really heavy and the goal is to balance it, Chinese yo-yo, various martial arts, some sort of exercise that involves loud shouts every once in a while, and using the "exercise machines" which can be found in parks (I'll take a picture for you guys soon :) But here is a picture of part of the park! I was the only white person in the park as far as I could tell, and it was pretty full and it's a pretty big park. But not at all touristy I think, which means people aren't used to seeing white people I guess, because I always get a lot of stares, though it's been getting better- I think I'm becoming a normal sight there.<br />
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Though admittedly not today or yesterday, as the air pollution has apparently been "beyond classification" (?!) Here is picture from around 15:00 today. I don't think it looks that bad, but you can't see the sky at all/ there is no sun and there are no shadows.<br />
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But back to the good part- Food!<br />
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So I'm pretty sure the food/snack/dessert featured above is my new favorite food ever. 高琳 (my super fantastic roommate) bought it for me, it's sort of like a not so sweet pudding- the majority is steamed milk+egg whites, and then there are red beans and yellow beans on top!<br /><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm in China for real! Look at those lions! And jeans (Bridgette : ) )</td></tr>
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<br />That wasn't a food picture.. We went to 后海, or behind the sea, (yes, there is a 前海, in front of the sea), which is super touristy. And yes, there is no real sea, it's just a pretty big lake, but that's its name. There were more foreign people there then I've seen in a long time, as well as so many coffee places- there are 0 in my neighborhood, so everything was super expensive. But we did visit the first post office in China, which was gorgeous. I want to live there, even though it is tiny. I guess the most interesting thing was that you can tell Chinese people apart from foreigners by how we behave- I still haven't adopted the slightly aggressive way of standing in a line so common here, nor have I gotten used to people not paying heed to cars, and cars not paying heed to people. I'm sure I will though.<br /><br />
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We were going to get hot pot but the lines were too long, so we went here instead. All that soup for 12块 (about 2 dollars). So the way it works is you pick out the veggies etc you want and put them on a tray, then you go to the counter, get confused by the waiter's Beijing accent, attempt to reinforce you do not want spicey food, get questioned about whether you'll need a fork, get your spoon and chopsticks, pay, be questioned for exact change (which I almost never seem to have) and then return to your seat to wait for the food. Oh! You can also see the roasted hazelnuts we bought here- there are alot of roasted nuts here, even chestnuts! So good.<br /><br /><br />
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That's from.. not 后海 but someplace nearby- we wandered around before eventually taking the subway back home.<br /><br /><br />
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On to the next day! Sunday! So despite 木耳's terrible english name (edible fungus) it is actually one of my favorite things to eat- it's also a feature in many veg dishes, so this is indeed pretty fortuitous. This is at 高琳's university's cafeteria- it's the only open over break, she says other ones are more like a classic buffet cafeteria, but this one is more like fast food court. Even though we were eating pretty late, 14ish, it was pretty packed. When you come in, you pick up chopsticks and a stick to balance the eating side on, and then you lay them down where you're going to sit, and no one will take that spot.<br /><br /><br />
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<br />The above gem was found in 高琳's student shop, though now that I know to look for them, they're everywhere! Other before unseen food items I have now seem include, pea ice cream and a pre-made sandwich with red bean in the middle. That last one was pretty good actually, it's what I ate for breakfast today.<br /><br />
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So in China, foreign brands are considered better, so even though there are McDonalds, KFC, Sketchers and other name brands here, regardless of how expensive there are in America, because they are American they are considered better/classier. But since we are in China, these brands have been heavily influenced by China, so some McDonalds are actually quite classy, with a little dessert and coffee bar, dark woods and nice paint colors (or so it looked from the outside).<br /><br />
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I was told KFC's egg tarts are really good, and that I should use them as a baseline to compare others against, so my roommate and I ventured to KFC to get some. She says some of her guy friends will get the 6 pieces option, so they'll eat 5 egg tarts and she'll eat one. They are pretty good, but not as good is that 双皮奶. :) <div>
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Other than eating, we also went to get some calligraphy supplies for me, which was quite successful, and window shopped for a while. When we got back we both were feeling like we had a cold, and we had work to do, so we stopped for a dinner of soup, which I should have taken a picture of because they were both so Chinese! We got one sweet and one salty one, both were veg because 高琳 is so nice, the sweet one had all sorts of beans and dried fruit (called 8 tastes or something?) and the salty one had cucumber and rice. We also got a stir-fried lotus root dish and some noodles. So good. </div>
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One last thing- I am working really hard to improve my tones, so I went to my teachers office hours today and asked them to correct my pronunciation, and my teacher said I had the 8th best pronunciation (not tones! definitely not including tones!) of anyone he'd met. This is probably an exaggeration, but I remain pleased. </div>
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somberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-3822844683666081212013-01-11T04:21:00.001-08:002013-01-11T04:21:45.392-08:00Harvey Mudd in China!Guess who I saw in Beijing today? Tiffany! Admittedly, we planned the meeting, but it was still strange to see another Mudder in China. Ahh can't believe I forgot to take a picture, but if we meet again (which we should) I will. So this time I'll include pictures, but also provide some explanations for them.<br />
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Today we had our weekly oral exam and skits, our oral was one part lesson recitation (We covered three lessons this week, our teacher picked one, and then we recited with an outline to help), one part report on the topic "What differences do American and Chinese elders' lives have?" Here is my feedback sheet, hopefully next week I'll study enough for an A or A+ :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">冰糖葫芦- Apparently, a hawthorn encircled in candied sugar. Pretty good! The vender tried to sell it to me for 5块but my roommate got him down to 3.<br /></td></tr>
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We also tried to cook, but we only had a electric stove, and the bottom of the pots were pretty thin, so the bottom of the pots was glowing red for a portion of this adventure. But we made it out alive, and ate pretty well. Don't know how much cooking I'll be trying to do from now on though :)</div>
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somberimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02851679602786465193noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7606298496226547898.post-57861198609797060892013-01-10T03:46:00.000-08:002013-01-10T03:46:44.859-08:00Hello from China!Thanks to Pete's help! So I made it, I'm alive and well in my dorm room, my roommate is great, there is indeed heat in the room, and I have a test tomorrow I should be studying for.. But I'll give a quick run-down of some fun things/interesting things I've done so far!<br />
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Bought a cheap cell phone, some quaker oats instant oatmeal (not <b>at all</b> similar to the American version), got an OK cup for 3 块 kuai- (50 cents), been astounded at how cheap food is, frozen my face off running in the park, gotten lost in the park, eaten candied hawthorn candy, tried to explain I was looking for a converter in Chinese to a Chinese person, done well on some 听写s, signed a language pledge, tried to ask Chinese people about their retirement, eaten a lot of 饺子, drank a lot of black currant juice, studied a lot of Chinese.<br />
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