The city that we are staying in is called Changsha with a population of 2 million. It is a very large, noisy and dirty city. The Chinese seem to build things very quickly but still need to do some work on city maintenance. The traffic is unbelievable.... the pedestrians DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY! If you need to cross the street you follow the locals and if in the middle of crossing, things do not go well, just freeze until you can move again safely (A lot different then the Old Port). I (Tom) took a walk the other day to see if I could find some diapers with tape (no tape on diapers is another story), and walked buy a local restaurant with the catch of the day still living in the front window. It looked like you could have a choice of sucker fish, long neck turtle, snake, or ugly fish.
We went to a local government embroidery factory. It was amazing the items that they hand embroidered. The factory was about two dozen women in a room with no heat, stitching away. We purchased a few items and I think we are going back today to purchase a few more. The women in the factory stitch all year long for about $3,000 USD, so I do not need to explain how inexpensive the beautiful items are.
Fireworks are very common here. I do not understand why, but they light them off in the street first thing in the morning and all during the evening. This is an area with very large high rise buildings and fireworks are going off everywhere. I am amazed that the city does not burn flat.
Emilia is doing well but seems to be grieving a bit. It is so sad when she gets into one of her sobbing cries and you know she is missing her Nanny. We did find out that her Nannies called her DanDan. When you use that name she really takes notice. We have been calling her RuDan or Dan Dan and will work into Emilia when we get home. We have been told also that she was a little trickster. She has a smile that will light up the room.
Tomorrow we leave Changsha and fly to Guangzhou. We will be staying there until we leave for home. We are so ready to move on to a new location and closer to getting home.
We went to a local government embroidery factory. It was amazing the items that they hand embroidered. The factory was about two dozen women in a room with no heat, stitching away. We purchased a few items and I think we are going back today to purchase a few more. The women in the factory stitch all year long for about $3,000 USD, so I do not need to explain how inexpensive the beautiful items are.
Fireworks are very common here. I do not understand why, but they light them off in the street first thing in the morning and all during the evening. This is an area with very large high rise buildings and fireworks are going off everywhere. I am amazed that the city does not burn flat.
Emilia is doing well but seems to be grieving a bit. It is so sad when she gets into one of her sobbing cries and you know she is missing her Nanny. We did find out that her Nannies called her DanDan. When you use that name she really takes notice. We have been calling her RuDan or Dan Dan and will work into Emilia when we get home. We have been told also that she was a little trickster. She has a smile that will light up the room.
Tomorrow we leave Changsha and fly to Guangzhou. We will be staying there until we leave for home. We are so ready to move on to a new location and closer to getting home.
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Tom,
Nice building your posing in front of I think I saw that in a movie.
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