An Inside View Of Life In China, From An Outsider
Tags: Adventures
My niece, Sarah, is living in China, teaching English to young Chinese students. Let me know if you are interested in reading more and following her adventures and I'll send you the link. She is quite the adept writer (it's a New England thing).
Here is an excerpt from her Journal "These boots are made for walkin', And that's just what they'll do" and, when you read it, keep in mind that Journaling can be politically sensitive in China. She includes pictures in some of her postings. Here you go.:
So! As I was wandering the city, I sort of stumbled across a big honking Buddhist temple, set in next to a hospital and behind a small plaza. The plaza was lined with stores selling Buddhist stuff- candles, figurines, incense, monks' robes, beads and larger-than-life statues. It was kind of wild, and when I asked one of the shopkeepers, she told me that they were basically all temple supply stores, but no, I shouldn't take pictures.
So you have to imagine it.
But! Inside the temple was okay, as long as it wasn't indoors. It's probably something to do with photographing the representation of the Buddhas, but nobody's ever explained it to me.
The first bit is a stone. A big stone, with Japanese written all over it. I don't know what it is, but other folks were taking pictures, so it must be interesting.
My niece, Sarah, is living in China, teaching English to young Chinese students. Let me know if you are interested in reading more and following her adventures and I'll send you the link. She is quite the adept writer (it's a New England thing).
Here is an excerpt from her Journal "These boots are made for walkin', And that's just what they'll do" and, when you read it, keep in mind that Journaling can be politically sensitive in China. She includes pictures in some of her postings. Here you go.:
So! As I was wandering the city, I sort of stumbled across a big honking Buddhist temple, set in next to a hospital and behind a small plaza. The plaza was lined with stores selling Buddhist stuff- candles, figurines, incense, monks' robes, beads and larger-than-life statues. It was kind of wild, and when I asked one of the shopkeepers, she told me that they were basically all temple supply stores, but no, I shouldn't take pictures.
So you have to imagine it.
But! Inside the temple was okay, as long as it wasn't indoors. It's probably something to do with photographing the representation of the Buddhas, but nobody's ever explained it to me.
The first bit is a stone. A big stone, with Japanese written all over it. I don't know what it is, but other folks were taking pictures, so it must be interesting.