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Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:15 PM
hello everyone,
i am now feeling rested and back to normal for the
rest of the trip. so, let's see....yesterday, we went
to a middle school. it was the best middle school in
the sichuan provence. private school and some students
stay over. (does anyone notice a pattern? we are
visiting the best of the best...!) anyway, a small
group of us went to the orchestra. it was really good.
we then went to downtown chengdu. there are all these
painted slogans all about town about keeping the city
nice and clean with integrity. we went to this
restaurant where they serve 20 "snacks" in small bowls
to each of us. they were all very different. one dish
was chicken feet. i tried a small bite. the texture
was too strange for me. there was also a kind of
"minty" noodle with bean paste rolled inside. at
first, it tasted really good, so i put the rest of it
into my mouth. by then, the flavor just was too minty
and too strange. like minty bread dough. ugh! the only
familiar thing was the fried sesame rice dough with
bean paste inside that you get at dim sum. yum,
yum...!
after that, we went shopping. we couldn't find the
night market (sadly we saw it on the way home) so i
got some cd's. there is no copyright here in china, so
many people are getting american cd's for less than $1
american dollar. also, they already have pearl harbor
and moulon rouge on dvd or vcd. (who knows if they
will actually be able to play them on american
machines). i got some techno. one dj mix by kelly chan
and i think it will suck.
today we went to the panda research base. we were able
to get so close to the pandas and the base wasn't busy
at all. they were so cute, especially the babies! i
tried not to take a whole roll of pandas, but it was
tough. the other interesting thing is that the panda
base didn't have the barrage of souveniers that the
other places have had. only some post cards and
picture books.
miss you all!
love,
ingrid
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