Well, I am unable to blog, blogger is apparently banned here or something, I cant get on. Lets see, I have been in china for almost a month, 28 days now I think. It has been one hell of a trip. We have been to some really insane places, seen some crazy shit along the way. We have been to about 40-50 rural villages. Barely missed a landslide, no let me change that, barely missed about 7 landslides. Its been pretty scary at times. One province we were in was especially scary. The roads were so dangerous. I am unsure how we were about to drive on many of them and we drove all over that province for a week straight, a different place each night. We are getting read to go to our last city, Shanghai. We leave tomorrow for it by plane. We have been here for about 8-9 days at a ceramic village making work. We have an exhibition at the university here and we did a symposium the other day at the college as well. It was the most familiar thing we have done so far. Odd how that works. They had a couple of really nice parties for us, one was hosted by the president of the university. We had a second party at the ceramic village and there they had the beijing opera perform and there was a guy who was making homemade noodles also. It was a really good time. We went to a really cool Buddhist temple and some Buddhist caves a few weeks ago. I truly enjoyed these sites. I took pics even though I was not suppose to. I hope I didn't get bad karma for doing so. These places were very special for me. We walked among the rice patty fields one day. One section of the country in particular was amazingly beautiful. I was so impressed by the way they were farming. They used every tiny little space that there was to grow stuff on the mountains. I have a lot of photos I will post when I go home so you can see for yourself what I am talking about! If you read an earlier blog about bathrooms, well, I have not seen the pigs below them or anything but have seen some insane ones. We developed a numbering system to rate the bathrooms. The system is 1-10 10 being the worst. Well, one I went to at an elementary school was easily a 25! It was insane, piles of shit that went over the are you were suppose to put your feet. The woman who went with me refused to speak of the experience for days it was so traumatizing. Ya, it was pretty bad. Second to this were a couple of village out houses I used were below I saw stuff moving from the maggots and who knows what. I have met a lot of really cool artists whom I have been traveling with as well as some really cool people who live here and other artists who are staying at the village currently. Needless to say I will be so happy to be returning to the comfort of my small rural town in PA in a few days. I have never been so happy to go home. I also look forward to eating some pizza. I like the food here but miss so good old fashioned american grub.
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