Monday, March 30, 2009

Everything's almost ready

I've bought my tickets to get from Beijing to Hangzhou (where Martha's staying). After I bought them it finally sunk in that I'm actually going to be going there. As I'm posting this I'm at 25 days left until I leave. That is going to fly by.

Now, I sent my flight confirmation to Martha so that she can see exacly when I'm scheduled to arrive, plus she'll know my flight and such. She sent me a bunch of links for things to see and do while in Hangzhou. One of the links is for a place called Farmer's Paradise (that's the rough translation that the website gave me). A while back Martha had gone there with her class and she said that it was awesome. It was a little like our Upper Canada Village so I thought "Awesome" and asked if we could go. She remembered! Anyways, I browsed through the site to look at the photos and it's really awesome. Today I got around to having the website translated and oh my god, I don't think a day there will be enough. Check it out.

http://ca.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zjnby.com%2F&lp=zh_en&.intl=ca&fr=yfp-t-501

There's tons of activities that you can do and they even let you participate with some of the more traditional things such as plowing the fields, and moving the water mill. There's archery, ox cart rides, something about canoes or carving them, a bamboo labyrinth, stilt walking, hoop rolling and those are only some of the activities offered! There's also in the modern ones a giant water ball of some sort. It looks fun even though I have no idea what they're supposed to be doing.


13 comments:

  1. What are those things?! People seem to e sitting inside... O_o All the activities you list sure sound fun! Although I'd LOVE archery, I don't think I'd enjoy plowing much... :P
    I'll mail the letter tomorrow! Hope it reaches before you leave for China! :D

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  2. God, waht a horrible photo up there in my follower's ID... ¬_¬ I sooo need to change it...

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  3. I don't know what they are but they look fun! And wet, it looks like you'd get very wet.
    I used to love doing archery at summer camp so I'm pretty excited to be doing it with an older looking bow. I rather enjoyed tilling during the summer so I figured if I can give it a shot the traditional way it'd be fun. Plus if I can get a good picture I can e-mail it to my boss and tell him to tell the guys that it's the new way to till the sandboxes. I'm evil, I know. >.<
    YAY for letters! Hopefully, I just realized that I leave in 3 1/2 weeks. I kind of stared at the calender in shock and was like "but I needs moar time!"(mostly for the paychecks) =D

    Follower ID? It's not that bad. And your name links you to dA! That's awesome.

    I'm also getting irritated that there's no reply button. Nor can I use HTML in my replies. *shakesfist at blogspot* Darn it!

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  4. *also shakes fist* Yeah, darn it! XD

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  5. The seem to be having... fun? XD

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  6. I already sent U the letter!!! XD It'll arrive in about 12 days, so wait 4 it!!! :D

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  7. Fotus: Whatever it is they're doing, it does look a little fun albeit confusing. I wanna do it too!

    Eni: I'll wait for it!!! I'll be sending yours out tomorrow if I can get myself to a post office.

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  8. Just wanted to take a moment a thank you for visiting my blog, taking a gander at my art, and being a lovely admirer/follower.

    Good luck in china! keep us posted of your adventures. China is definitely on my list of places I must visit before I croak....

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  9. Antonio, it's no problem. I actually found your blog through the forums on deviantART. You have some really nice pieces.

    China's been on my list as well so I'm really excited to be going. I'll definitely keep people posted on what I'm doing there. I even plan on putting some images here too.

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  10. Am soooo jealous!! 8D Although I got to pick tea leaves in the mountains, which was exciting, I didn't get to poke waterwheels, omg! That looks awesome!!

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  11. Those waterwheel things are one of my main goals for going to that village. It look so fun!
    Picking tea leave sounds really fun!

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  12. You people are evil, telling of all the things you've done or will do in China, while I can't move from my country, sob...
    Vamaena-chan, you'll have to take extra gorgeous photos dedicated to yours truly to make it up to me! XD

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  13. I'm sorry! I promise I'll take tons and tons of pictures for you!

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