Moganshan Lu- Art District

Here are just a couple pictures from Moganshan Lu, a strip in Shanghai that has a lot of art galleries, I visited it this past weekend and took a lot of pictures so I thought I'd put some up... All the pictures are either from walking there or inside the galleries.

Shaoxing Part 2

Here are some of the other pictures I took, mostly coming from An'Chang and Screaming Mt. There's drying meat hanging out, the pig head's my favorite, a lady making sausage and at Screaming Mt. a lady painting a tree trunk... I'm not sure why but I liked the picture, and finally some of the kids in our group by the lake by the mountain. If you have any questions about anything feel free to ask. Enjoy!

Shaoxing

Here are some of the pictures from Shaoxing, the first are from the clothing factories we visited, then the boat ride I took, there's a picture of me with Helen, our program's assistant director, next is a lady washing her hair by the river and finally one of me in the bonsai garden at Lu Xun's old  home.

Thanksgiving Pictures

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving, I'm not in any of them because I had to take them, just picture me there. 

Josh is making the apple pie, I also showed a close up of it. The hanging pumpkins had each one of our names on it, mine's a little left of the center.

Thanksgiving and our trip to Shaoxing

Hey everyone!!

     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.