Jingdezhen is a lovely town - 1.3 M is a town here. It is the china captial - in fact the ancient name was "Chi na" and the English took it back and used the word for all things procelain. We have been in two shops already but even more interesting are the lamposts coverd with huge china murals, the hills have massive china murals placed in them. The town is all about the product. Clean and easy to transverse.
Today has been sightseeing and a spontaneous 1.5 hours of speech and Q&A to Sr Hi kids - they want to know about our music and politics and mostly how we feel about the 2008 Olympics. We sang Take me Out to the Ball Game as our contribution to both culture and athletics.
We eat 3 banquets a day - but in very small bites because of the chopstitck use. It is all delicious - not labeled but that is all to the good. Much of it comes with the heads attached...eyeballs and all. I've tried not to get on a first name basis with dinner...
Our rooms and classroom are modest but we seem to have all the technology we need and everyone is very organized. Tomorrow we have opening ceremonies, placement and Monday begin teaching. Ready or not!
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