China

Chishui is the home for bamboo and there are full of bamboos. The life of the local people there depends on bamboo. They build their houses in bamboo, and the furnitures and for sure the handcrafts.

Walking along the small street in Chishui City, I was asked to take pictures for some old woman and her granddaughter. When I finished and showed them the picture, someone asked me to take pictures for her. She told me she never took any pictures in her life and she was 73 years old now. Then I told her I could send her if she wanted. But she felt very hesitated because it would cost me. So she asked me if it was expensive and still didn’t want to give me this trouble. But from her expression, it was that she wanted to see her face in these pictures. It was her neighbour who wrote down the mail address and gave it to me.

I am sure how happy she will be while seeing herself in the pictures for the first time of her seventy-three years.

Because of being too hungry, everyone just rushed for lunch and kept eating with the best appetite. It is quite normal for travelers to be easier to have a satisfactory meal.

We went hiking to see waterfall this afternoon. It started raining. Because we were all the members of the big travel group, even without any flag, we were still told before hiking to come back in one hour. It should be impossible, but I did it because I ran back. Unbelievable! Impossible is nothing!

I changed my mind to go to the summit of the mountain and then went back. However I enjoyed the hiking very much since I met one young girl. She went to the scenery spots to collect the empty water bottles for her tuition fee. So I told her that maybe she went with me to the park lot to see how many bottles I could find out. But I was not sure and said to her there maybe only one. But she smiled to me and said “Even one, I will go with you”. So I got some companion to have a run.

When running down, she was concentrated on those bottles and it seemed that she had very good eyesight on them. Sometimes I went to the rubbish bins for checking and every time it was empty inside.

Luckily, I found out far more than 3 bottles in the park lot. That was really a good news not only for her.

Her name is Xia Jin and she will go to her new school in Sichuan tomorrow.

Left to Chengdu at 6am, another bus was 6.20am. But it was always the same, the latter one would become the first one after departure. Unbelievable!

Fortunately, it was smooth to go back only with maybe totally one and half hour blocking. So I thought I was lucky!

Had to start work tomorrow, terrible!!!

I had no idea what I could do there. But thanks god, I met one girl from Beijing and we went to the monastery there.

I was happy to be in the monastery again to see the red clouds.