The past few days.
I’m too tired to write about it now, but briefly:
I left my traveling companion behind in a city called Menghai and took off by myself for Xiding, where there is a huge market on Thursdays.¬† We had to travel like two hours up a road that was unpaved to get there.¬† Xiding is basically just a street with a few houses, but on Thursday hundreds of people in native costume come to buy and sell.¬† I saw Aini, Ahka, Bulat (I think), Dai and Jinpo people.¬† I didn’t get a lot of good pictures b/c people weren’t that eager to be photographed, and I didn’t want to take people’s pictures against their will.¬† I mostly got long shots.
The day after I came back the other girl’s leg felt better, and we went out to this village called Jingzhen where we visited an octagonal pagoda, a Buddhist temple, watched monks gamble and play computer games, and then spent several hours chatting with a Dai minority family.
 
January 22nd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Hi, Mary Frances! Kelly (Slinkman) Kuglitsch here. I found a link to your blog, recently, on Bart’s blog. And now, I have started my own blog: http://cheeseheadliving.blogspot.com/
I had a baby five months ago - a daughter named Emma. Glad to see that you’re still having adventures in China. With all the buzz here about the emergence of China, and with all the Americans wanting to do business there, I imagine that you’ll be happily employable for the rest of your life on your language skills alone. Not a bad set up! Hope you’re enjoying life. Feel free to visit my blog. Very best wishes and thoughts from Milwaukee, Wisconsin!! - Kelly (:
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Howdy! I’m glad to hear from you! Congratulations on the baby!
I want to see your site, but Blogspot is blocked here.
I’ll have to try to find a good proxy server. I used to use Anonymouse, but now that is blocked too.