Thursday, August 03, 2006
Hell Yes!
Welcome friends! Sorry for the confusion with the second blog, but I think you can understand why. Don't forget that if your parents want to see what I'm up to, send them to my other blog: mikesadventuresinchina.blogspot.com. So anyway, I'm starting to finally get the hang of speaking Chinese and picking it up in class, just as we are finished?! I really hope that where ever I end up teaching I can take a Chinese class while I'm there so I can learn more. On Wednesday we took a class field trip to a waterfall. It was an hour bus ride outside of the city (we even had to change busses once). The ride there was pretty cool because we got to drive through a lot of Zhuhai and then outside of the city some. As we got further and further out we were all thinking, "Where in the hell are we going?" We were definitely out in the
middle of nowhere. I'm talking rice paddies and banana fields. It was actually very cool though to see rural China. It is amazing how some people can live on these little farms in wood shanties with pretty much nothing around them. Our bus dropped us off at a dirt road along the sketchy two lane road we were already on. It was funny because walking down the road to get to the waterfall there was a shanty with a bunch of dogs outside and at first we were joking about eating them. Then we started to get afraid of them attacking us and getting rabies. Because Michele had gotten the rabies shot and none of the rest of us had (she was attacked by viscous monkeys last time she was in China) 
we were trying to make her go first. The dogs didn't move a muscle and it was all just us being afraid for no reason. When we got to the waterfall park it was amazing! It wasn't just a waterfall, it was a waterfall the fed a miniature water park! It was absolutely beautiful. A swimming area made out of stone, fed by a waterfall with bamboo surrounding the whole thing. We then hiked up the waterfall and the view of the valley from the top was ridiculous. Its kind of funny in China because it seems like everything is a mountain or a valley, nothing in between. No hills. Flat, or mountain, that's it. It started pouring rain and we were told our bus wasn't coming to pick us up until 4 so we hid under a shelter. Michele thought we should start walking back at 3:30 so we did and luckily we did because we had to run down the road to catch the bus because it actually came at 3:40 and another one wouldn't be coming for an hour. That is the story of waterfall field trip adventure. (Picture below is of Pablo and Chi at the top)
middle of nowhere. I'm talking rice paddies and banana fields. It was actually very cool though to see rural China. It is amazing how some people can live on these little farms in wood shanties with pretty much nothing around them. Our bus dropped us off at a dirt road along the sketchy two lane road we were already on. It was funny because walking down the road to get to the waterfall there was a shanty with a bunch of dogs outside and at first we were joking about eating them. Then we started to get afraid of them attacking us and getting rabies. Because Michele had gotten the rabies shot and none of the rest of us had (she was attacked by viscous monkeys last time she was in China) 
we were trying to make her go first. The dogs didn't move a muscle and it was all just us being afraid for no reason. When we got to the waterfall park it was amazing! It wasn't just a waterfall, it was a waterfall the fed a miniature water park! It was absolutely beautiful. A swimming area made out of stone, fed by a waterfall with bamboo surrounding the whole thing. We then hiked up the waterfall and the view of the valley from the top was ridiculous. Its kind of funny in China because it seems like everything is a mountain or a valley, nothing in between. No hills. Flat, or mountain, that's it. It started pouring rain and we were told our bus wasn't coming to pick us up until 4 so we hid under a shelter. Michele thought we should start walking back at 3:30 so we did and luckily we did because we had to run down the road to catch the bus because it actually came at 3:40 and another one wouldn't be coming for an hour. That is the story of waterfall field trip adventure. (Picture below is of Pablo and Chi at the top)
# posted by Mike @ 9:41 PM 
