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Chicken Busin' on the Yellow River + Beijing
... sense that we would in the Midwest. If a journey is more than an hour or so, they hop on the train. Now that doesn't mean it's always convenient, and over this holiday, and pretty much every other major holiday, if you don't get your tickets in advance there's a good chance you're not going anywhere. When I say packed I'm talking like sardines. The trains, the stations, the airports, it's even hard to get a cab on both weekends surrounding the 'off' ...
Afternoon Tea
... t observe this same liking, because cold drinks are few and far between here. They like to drink warm drinks, no matter what meal and no matter what weather. Sure it may be 80 degrees outside, but doggone it the Chinese are drinking hot water and hot tea!
In an earlier post I mentioned my stay with Chen Min's auntie and my lesson on properly serving Chinese tea. Well, on Saturday this same Auntie invited us to return to Zibo ...
The Home Stay
... wasn't much family there to experience. It was just Auntie and me, eating breakfast together and having a conversation the best we could. Our half broken English, half broken Chinese method actually worked most of the time, so the day wasn't bad at all. After breakfast, Auntie taught me how to properly serve Chinese cha (茶: tea). First, you must wash the leaves and the cups once by pouring hot water over the leaves as if brewing ...
Tourist Time
... enough with zoos, mainly because I've been to so many and I'm a little grown for them. Museums are just boring most of the time, with one exception being the Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri. That place was AWESOME!
So anyways, back to my rant about museums and zoos. On Wednesday our small group went to two local Zibo museums; The International Ceramics Museum, and The Ancient War Vehicles Museum. I will admit that the Ancient ...
Ganbei!
... on doing so much touring by foot, I would be coming home in a month much rounder than usual!
Our welcome dinner was extremely nice, and it was really our first taste of some formal dining traditions. The arrangement of the table was set up so that us visitors were seated in every-other seat so that a host could sit on either side. When the director of the program entered the room, everyone stood and welcomed him, ...
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