Day 9

It was back to lessons again this morning and we had the nice number lady again. This time we learned about asking the price of stuff like Coke and water and all that. Then we had the scary lady who wasn't all that scary today but some of her flash things were like a wierd Panda story she showed us. After class we went to the Temple of Heaven which was cool. The buildings were painted all pretty with blue and red with smart dragons and lions and stuff painted in gold! So we dandered around that for a couple of hours but we were all quite tired and had sore feet and sore legs and sore heads and so on so we decided not to stay on and follow Steven and his flag across the busy road to the market. The market was farely awesome too! It had a variety of jewelry, clothes, bags, shoes, technological stuff and lots more. Laura, Ruth and I thought we were pretty good with the whole bartering thing until we talked to all the other people and found out we were quite frankly useless. Nevertheless we had fun looking at all the produce but ran out of time to look at the fish market down the stairs. But all the others said it was cool with tonnes of types of wierd and wonderful fish. Anyway we got back on the bus and headed back to the campus. I fell asleep. We had dinner and were planning to go out but by the looks of things it may not happen as the heavens are falling and doesn't look as if it will stop! So anyway, we had a fantastic day although we were a tad on the tired side... as they say we'll sleep tonight! Oh and a nice thought for you all, it's just 9 days until you see our wonderful faces again!

All my love, Lynsey xxxx

Sounds from the lessons

Download singing_health_song.MP3

Cultural lesson - Download womens_feet_china.MP3

Download interview_with_lynsey_sights_day_9.MP3

Download learning_words_day_9.MP3

Photos of the day + more in the album on the right.

Temple of Heaven

Triple gateway

Local costume

Market stall

Number gestures

Comments

[mike and lilian]

glad to see you all looking so well and having a great time. we are very jealous. so pleased that your home visits proved to be better than expected.

[Mark]

Dear Thea and all the GGS students - as promised we're running a blog throughout our own Chinese Summer School back in Scotland which begins this morning. You can follow our progress, and maybe even use some of our online resources to help you with your Chinese learning. We'll be following your visit from Scotland and look forward to more photos and videos. Our Summer School blog can be accessed at http://pienews.blogs.com/chinese/.