Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 10, 2006 20:32:02 GMT 7
Dear teacher and class,
Today I went on a trip with the waiban. It was for the foreign teachers in this university, so there were 4 Foreign teachers and 10 members of the waiban and their families. We had a nice day. The weather was very good. We drove in a bus to a place called Pucheng about 2 hours outside my home town. it was a nice trip. When we got to Pucheng - after only one wrong turn - we went out of town again to the mountains and saw the biggest Tang Dynasty tomb - Qiaoling.
View of Qiaoling
The way is guarded
Guardian animal - this one can fly in the air, swim in the water, walk on land and judge the character of people.
View from the top of the mountain - one other FT climbed with me - and the FAO sent the youngest (adult) member of their team to protect us!!
Symbol of the Emperor - originally used as a public notice board at junctions of major roads - people could write their grievances, suggestions etc on it.
Lunch - the early courses - any clue what the green vegetable with the red 'raisins' on top is? Picture of it on tree follows.
And the answer is - mugua - woodfruit.
After a very flash lunch we went to the Pucheng Museum - which is also a Confucian Temple. I love the way they forget to mow the roof.
Ringing the bell in the temple
Stone carved hitching posts for horses.
Close up of one of the hitching posts - I loved the shape and the use of the striations in the rock.
The littlest members amusing themselves
Children at the museum
Today I went on a trip with the waiban. It was for the foreign teachers in this university, so there were 4 Foreign teachers and 10 members of the waiban and their families. We had a nice day. The weather was very good. We drove in a bus to a place called Pucheng about 2 hours outside my home town. it was a nice trip. When we got to Pucheng - after only one wrong turn - we went out of town again to the mountains and saw the biggest Tang Dynasty tomb - Qiaoling.
View of Qiaoling
The way is guarded
Guardian animal - this one can fly in the air, swim in the water, walk on land and judge the character of people.
View from the top of the mountain - one other FT climbed with me - and the FAO sent the youngest (adult) member of their team to protect us!!
Symbol of the Emperor - originally used as a public notice board at junctions of major roads - people could write their grievances, suggestions etc on it.
Lunch - the early courses - any clue what the green vegetable with the red 'raisins' on top is? Picture of it on tree follows.
And the answer is - mugua - woodfruit.
After a very flash lunch we went to the Pucheng Museum - which is also a Confucian Temple. I love the way they forget to mow the roof.
Ringing the bell in the temple
Stone carved hitching posts for horses.
Close up of one of the hitching posts - I loved the shape and the use of the striations in the rock.
The littlest members amusing themselves
Children at the museum
Burke!