It's not perfect and can be better, but good enough to have a good time. It's was drizzling yesterday. The top half of bright yellow taxi was clean, but the lower half was yucky. The road was muddy and we have to be careful not to be splashed. On top of that we have to wait a long, long time, more than half an hour for a taxi!
Took us almost an hour to reach the library - traffic jam amd detour. Since I did not fix an appointment, it was fine. The librarians were there and nice, so everything turn out fine. The museum had the float that was in the parade with the usual propaganda stuff. The museum woman was impressed by Huang Yao's book, which had the forward by Feng Yuexiang. Apparently he is popular in China.
They are all nice people and seem to be helpful but I am not expecting much. I think we do have enough material to make an impressive brochure for selling Niubizi exhibition. O, yes, the library welcomes exhibition of yeh2's work. Chongqing is the place for war resistance materials and exhibitions. But the city is so big, and spread out, not sure about how many people will turn out. The visitors of the museum appear to be tourists mostly.
The librarians told me there may be more materials on war resistance in Baipei, a place Huang Yao had also mentioned. It's 50 km away. After the morning experience to the library, I will wait for my friends to find out first whether it's worth going.
The rain fanally stopped and we went for a walk in the neighbourhood. There is a big bus station nearby, and we can see many people from farm. In fact we met many young people on the way, and they were from the farms. The vegetables are fresh and big. So are the fruits. The apples have apple smell! Many types of persimons. crunchy ones and small round soft delicious ones. We visited Walmart and the spread of fruits, vegetables, wines, tea, life fish etc is very interesting. Even has rambutans and durians. It is not big but with a great varieties of goods.
The food here tastes like what your friend, Christine, cooked for us in S. Africa - spicy and numbing the tongue and lips, lots of oil too. We finally managed to get a very good simple hot, mostly vegetables meal for lunch. We saw some dishes spread out on the table and asked for the same thing. They turned out to be the worker's lunch- delicious. Saw a deer hanging upside down outside a restaurant just now. Don't think I will be able to eat deer for a long, long time.
The people love their babies. Many of them have bamboo baby basket on their backs, but the toddlers were toddling around, chubby and rosy cheeked.
We even visited a lauching of new apartment complex. Very impressive. The guard stood like a soldier, saluting people going to view the apartments. It's about 200K for 60-70 sq m apartment and the whole area is nicely landscaped. No way do I want to live in Chengdu or Chongqing, I want my blue sky.
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