Anyways, since my last post, my brother and our friend Payton have both returned to Beijing and it's been great having other people my age around. My brother and I went and hung out with Payton the other day and had some huge laughs. My brother also told me that I am apparently boring and not very pretty either...thanks brother, I love you too. But no worries, I got my revenge when we played Nertz, I am after all the Nertz champion!!! At least I am when I'm not around my friends back in Katy, cause they can definitely hold their own.
Moving on. My mom, Ron, Alex, and I made a day trip to the countryside yesterday to visit the farming family that my mom lived with when she was sent to the countryside for re-education by the government during the Cultural Revolution. They live in a typical countryside home without any real heating system, but what they do use keeps you very warm so it was comfortable. They served us a HUGE meal (I've had a few too many big meals during this trip already and I know there's more to come) and by the end it didn't even look we'd touched any of the food. Typical Chinese hospitality, so nice!
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| Beginning of the meal |
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| End of the meal -- did we actually eat anything?? |
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| Mom, Alex and I with the family |
Other than this stuff, I've just been hanging out and attempting to get on Facebook...I haven't been very successful. Also, in two days, my mom and I will be traveling by train to the Sichuan Province to see friends and pandas :) Super excited! More later!
