Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hey


Life is good in china and I am getting violin lessons a teacher's wife at my school I am doing every Monday for 3 hours it really fun and I learning because I am learning how to play an instrument in Chinese. The way my Chinese teacher says I should learn how to play an instrument and the way my American book says is really different. In China students usually of my age usually start at a more advanced level than the my book suggests. It is really fun. Here is some pictures of China.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

More pictures


This of my classmates and our new years party.

My first Chinese New year


pictures of me making dumpling on Chinese New Year. I couldn't roll my mine to well so everybody didn't really want to eat them but I thought mine were really good. Check my sliver chinese traditional clothes from Tang dynasty(唐装 ).

Monday, February 9, 2009

CHINESE NEW YEAR

I just celebrated Chinese New year for the first time and it was really fun. I loved getting together with all my family members and eating dumplings. I think I ate like 50 dumplings in one day. They taste so good, the ones I made tasted okay, but they looked really wierd, everybody besides me was afriad to eat them. Chinese New Year is a 15 day celebration, full of fun, good spirit, and fireworks. I think in the past 15 days I heard and saw more fireworks than I had seen my whole life. The works usually start art like 7:00AM and go until 2:00AM it is amazing, for 2 weeks fireworks were my alarm clock and my lullaby. This was the best Chinese New Year ever. School has started and fireworks are over. The silence is a little weird.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Myths and truths about China

Just couple things I wanted to say about China. Every body before I was coming to China was telling that I should buy everything in China, becuase everything is really cheap there, and I'm not going to lie I also had that impression also. We were all wrong everything is expensiive shoes, clothes, and electronics, though all made in China are all more expensive in China. The only thingsthat Ihave found to be cheaper here are electric and motor scooters. Also the price of fruits and vegtables are cheaper here. This realization came to me when I was talking with my host mother (in chinese), and she said in a chinese mind one RMB is equal to what one dollar is in my mind. When I saw a pair of shoes for 600 yuan I was blown away. China is going great I just a lesson on christmas for 4 different classes and performed chinese kung fu, gave a little speech, and read poetry in the new years performances. I will try to get up videos and pics soon. I hope every body had in the snow in seattle, no snow herebut it is freezing. A couple days of agoit was about -5 degrees F.Bye.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

My Favorite TV Show

BEIJING OPERA life is grand everthing is going really well. I want to share with my friends in Seattle something that has changed my outlook on opera.