|  | | Qinggang Jialong Si | | | | | Well not much has been happening here over the last week and a half as we are all recovering from the H1N1 flue. We have not had any programs for this time and a lot of people are getting a bit board.
I used this time on catching up on a few things like washing my dirty socks and jocks and hunting down a few cool tea drinking thermoses (one Chinese custom I will take back to Australia with me). I also thought I better go and buy a little wood tiger for the baby that is born next year (next year is the year of the tiger) so I trundled up to the market on the other side of town but the bloke wanted 80 yuan for one. I told him to forget about it and went back two days later when it was a lot busier and lined up with the locals and bought one for 35 yuan (rip of merchant). I should have looked a bit closer at the tiger because when I got it home and turned it upside down and – WOWWWW - it is definitely a boy tiger that’s for sure - I will let Janine explain that one to the poor kid in 10 years time.
On Tuesday I decided to grab a few people and hop on a local bus and visit a small rural town 20 kms out of Lanzhou called Qinggang and the temple there called Jialong Si. It was pretty good as we bumped along the rutted roads and of course everyone starred at us as not many tourists go out there. I will put some photos up.
Yesterday we had our ‘internship’ – I put that in quotations as we didn’t really do anything. The trouble is our Chinese hosts left the organization of this too late so no one really was able to be placed in anything interesting or greatly related to their work. Myself and Nico (the Romanian guy that was the first to get H1N1) where asked to attend the school of management, which was pretty interesting for the first hour, but after that we all just sat around the table starring at each other, till our hosts suddenly received ‘important’ phone calls and had to go. However we are both going back tomorrow to each give a one and a half hour lecture to the International MBA students on project management methodologies in our countries – should be good and I will probably learn something.
This weekend two of us are traveling to Xian to visit the terracotta warriors – looking forward to it. Not sure about the overnight train experience thou……..
Only two and a half weeks left - where has the time gone….
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