I haven't had much to put up lately, although I did go on a trip to Shaoxing a few weekends ago, which was fun, just really really cold. I didn't bring a coat to China because Shanghai's weather on average never is supposed to go below the mid 40's for November and December, although it was in the 30's last weekend and 70 today so the weather's never something you can really depend on.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, our program directors reserved the top floor of this restaurant for us and we were able to use the kitchen and given a budget to make dinner, which was a lot of fun, we tried our best to make all the dishes we remembered from back home, although you can't find all of the ingredients here. I helped make an apple pie, we couldn't find a pie crust so we were going to use graham crackers to make the crust but we couldn't find graham crackers either so we bought these other biscuit things that looked similar and did our best. We ended up using 8 sticks of butter for 4 small pies... it came out looking more like a cobbler than anything else, but it was really good.
The next morning on Friday we all left for Shaoxing for the weekend, it's a city about 3 hours West of Shanghai. That afternoon we toured two textile factories, Shaoxing is known for it's textiles so that was interesting. The floors are divided by what's being made, so everyone on the same floor is making the same type of thing. We kept making jokes that they knew we were coming so they told all the 7 year old kids to take the day off... not funny i know.
During the other two days we visited this 1,000 year old river town of An'Chang which I'll try to put pictures up of. We also visited Screaming mountain, took a boat ride to the hometown of Lu Xun, who's one of China's most famous writers.
All in all it was a lot of fun but we all got back around 5 on Sunday night and still had all of our homework to do, so it was also a very tiring weekend.
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