Thursday, June 12, 2008

Jet-lagged and bored.

I wish we would have had a computer of some sort while we were there. There is too much to remember and I am already forgetting it as the minutes go by. There are some moments that I'm sure we will never forget, and I'm going to start an outline so others can possibly add on to it.

-We performed on CCTV, China's major news station, singing Thien Dung (or however all of the rest of you phonetically spelled it).
-We discovered what haggling was and that most of us are quite good at it.
-We toasted and were toasted by an entire room of people who then began singing to us the only English songs they knew (kind of) which were Happy Birthday and For Auld Lang Syne.
-I'm positive each of us had at least one near-death experience while walking along the street or trying to cross it.
-Some of us learned how to use a "hole."
-Some of us learned how very long we can wait for an actual toilet to use.
-We had our pictures taken at least once a day that we knew of, and some days it was more than ten.
-We drove through the Wutai Mountains on a tour bus barely short enough to make the precarious turns and bends of the mountains.
-We fell in love with a really old man who surrounded his life with calligraphy and his foreign friends.
-We experienced "smog" in Taiyuan.
-We were a noodle-making spectacle.
-We had Super and Amazing tour guides, capable of appearing at a moments notice or running miles to get us McDonald's.
-We ate things we were unable to identify.
-Some of us learned how to count to ten in Chinese!

Add more people, and specific stories would be awesome.

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