27/07: Continued from 7/26, read that first
Apologies for the spastic emails. Computer not always available and time constraints. Will try harder---
---a close call. They gave me tea and watermelon and I recovered. He had good TV reception, wide selection of channels, I heard English. I fed my watermelon rine to a chicken under the table, we bade bye-byes and I got home.
White men tremble when women touch. It's common here for young girls to hold hands and rub shoulders and play with the other's hair Doesn't bother the men, apparently. But you geezers bring an eye patch.
I get a little English every day from the tourists passing through I'm eating 2 meals a day at my new hotel I got someone to tell him to put everything in one bowl, meat, veggies, whatever, rice is separate of course., for supper. Breakfast is
an egg, porridge, pickled veggies mainly bamboo and lotus root, excellent veggie stuffed dumpling, and fried bread. It is the Chinese custom to order, serve too much, sometimes great waste of food left on the table. Distresses me. It's always delicious. The one bowl keeps him from giving me too much. Breakfast is about 30 cents, $4. for supper.
So, no books/newspaper, little English, lots of Chinese TV. Luckily, caught a US cop movie this AM, watched some Chinese Opera in afternoon. I think it is really good, wish I could understand, it requires much skill and practice.
Merchants on the street are beginning to treat me as human, not a cash cow, and that's nice. I'm still the only Caucasian. In the afternoon, I go down to the watermelon vendors, we dicker a new price every day. Settling in.
These tourists have come to see their history and are interested in preserving it. I am happy for it.The Cultural Revolution rubbed out a lot of history in people's minds, and progress is claiming many old buildings. We have done the same thing in the US teaching weird history. And city Manager Bob Bobb and the Criminal Councils did a good job of leveling fine old buildings in downtown Richmond, and don't forget HUD bulldozing Fulton and Randolph. "We gonna help the Black Man" I hope there's a Hell and they fry.
Lots of mosquitos, long pants at night. I dine on the veranda.
S.
---a close call. They gave me tea and watermelon and I recovered. He had good TV reception, wide selection of channels, I heard English. I fed my watermelon rine to a chicken under the table, we bade bye-byes and I got home.
White men tremble when women touch. It's common here for young girls to hold hands and rub shoulders and play with the other's hair Doesn't bother the men, apparently. But you geezers bring an eye patch.
I get a little English every day from the tourists passing through I'm eating 2 meals a day at my new hotel I got someone to tell him to put everything in one bowl, meat, veggies, whatever, rice is separate of course., for supper. Breakfast is
an egg, porridge, pickled veggies mainly bamboo and lotus root, excellent veggie stuffed dumpling, and fried bread. It is the Chinese custom to order, serve too much, sometimes great waste of food left on the table. Distresses me. It's always delicious. The one bowl keeps him from giving me too much. Breakfast is about 30 cents, $4. for supper.
So, no books/newspaper, little English, lots of Chinese TV. Luckily, caught a US cop movie this AM, watched some Chinese Opera in afternoon. I think it is really good, wish I could understand, it requires much skill and practice.
Merchants on the street are beginning to treat me as human, not a cash cow, and that's nice. I'm still the only Caucasian. In the afternoon, I go down to the watermelon vendors, we dicker a new price every day. Settling in.
These tourists have come to see their history and are interested in preserving it. I am happy for it.The Cultural Revolution rubbed out a lot of history in people's minds, and progress is claiming many old buildings. We have done the same thing in the US teaching weird history. And city Manager Bob Bobb and the Criminal Councils did a good job of leveling fine old buildings in downtown Richmond, and don't forget HUD bulldozing Fulton and Randolph. "We gonna help the Black Man" I hope there's a Hell and they fry.
Lots of mosquitos, long pants at night. I dine on the veranda.
S.
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