This last Friday we had a class trip to
SiZhou. We went
on one of those high speed trains and it was so cool! Those things go like 270
km/hr. Madness.
So we got there and went to the SiZhou
museum, which I am sure is a really cool museum for a certain target audience
that I am apparently not apart of. So
that sucked, but then we went and met with the other guys and Dr. Riep and his
family. We all went over to this super big pagoda, which was really
cool and really tall. And then we went over to the Silk Museum, which was just
as cool if not less cool as the SiZhou museum.
The best part of the trip came next.
We went to the Humble Administrator’s Garden. Apparently SiZhou was a very
wealthy city way back when during Silk Road times and they used their abundance
of wealth to make all of these gardens. This place was easily the coolest place
we’ve been in China. It was gorgeous!! But everyone was just standing around so
Hannah and I went off and explored cause they were being lame. It was huge and
spectacular. Best $7 I’ve ever spent.
Then we just kind of wandered around.
We hung out in a park and saw an obscene amount of cats. Then we went and got
some GREAT guotie (pot stickers). Then we walked around and then went back to
the train station.
When we got on the train, my spot was
in the middle and there was only the lady in the aisle sitting there. I told
her that I think I had the seat next to her and she stood up to let me sit
down. But then instead of sitting back down she just stayed standing…for and
hour and a half instead of sitting back down by me. She just stood there with her
friend and they were both smiling and laughing at me and then I felt
uncomfortable so I was laughing at the awkwardness and we all just looked at
each other and laughed at their obvious racism.
View from the pagoda:
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Gotcha.
The spectacular garden:
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