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September 15, 2007: Nancy's Notes: Jill, Julia and Chinese friends, Helen and Becky, went to Dinosaur World, a theme park with rides and fossils bearing unique Chinese names. A sign at the park announced, "If you are dishelved, you cannot go on a ride." Jill has joined the weekly poker game of ex-pats and Chinese at a local reataurant, and lost almost $2 her first time out. Changzhou turns out to be a city of about 4 million. Just as you would expect, people play mah jong and practice tai chi in the parks.
downtown Changzhou
temple in Changzhou
flowers from friends
October 2, 2007: Nancy's Notes: Jill has been calling, but the e-mails have been light. Recently J&J spent a weekend in Shanghai (pronunced shoung-high), where they shopped. The gym the girls joined does not have air conditioning. The daily temperatures have been in around 90°F. This is China Week, so J&J are on the road to Macau, a former Portuguese colony with major casinos, and Hong Kong. They made arrangements using a local travel agency involving a train to Shanghai, a plane to Shenzhen and a ferry to Hong Kong. I am in the process of mailing a box to China. As I understand it, I use a USPO International Priority Mail box (I had to order them), fill it with up to 20 pounds worth of stuff valued at several hundred dollars, declare it as a gift, and I can send the whole thing for $37. Julia's mother did it, so ... October 20, 2007: Nancy's Notes: The Hong Kong trip was a success and this weekend, J&J are off to Nanjing. The package I sent arrived with no trouble. Now we have to send an external hard drive because the hard drive on the new, and admittedly cheap, computer we got before Jill left seems to be full. Jill has stopped her Chinese lessons in favor of CDs and having, or attempting to have, actual conversations. November 1, 2007: Nancy's Notes: Jill cut short her weekend in the country after a bracing horseback ride. If she hadn't already felt ill from being a passenger in a hit and run dog killing vehicle, her bus ride home would have made things worse. She was told to expect a three hour trip, but it was seven hours long. And unfortunately, she had to beg for a stop en route so she could go behind a bush and ... Naturally, this brought forth laughter at the lao wei (foreigner, literally "ocean person" or someone from far away across the ocean - not always used in a polite way) and her bladder. Shortly after that, Jill found all the pictures in her camera had been deleted in error by a helpful American friend. January 23, 2008: Nancy's Notes: Like so much of what I am responsible for, this page has been neglected. Jill has traveled, shopped, eaten great food, and meet many wonderful people. Someday, I hope to update things. However, she has moved to Shanghai, enrolled in graduate school for the fall, and has hosted her sister for a Christmas visit. We plan our own trip in the spring - details to follow.
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