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In Nanjing and doing well. Visited primary school yesterday and toured the city.

Internet is rare and not very stable so the posts are slow and spotty. We visited the largest primary school (2000+) in Nanjing yesterday. It was a beautiful school with very bright students. Certainly the showcase school in the area. Played a little volleyball in the gym with the students and the hoops broke out. Couldn’t resist. We made paper flowers n the traditional Chinese style and met the principal of the school.

There are 43 in our group here in Nanjing which is only 10% of the entire delegation. Maggie our tour guide and Master Wei our bus driver have done a wonderful job hosting us in one of the “smaller” cities, Nanjing has only 8.3 million people (that’s bigger than New York City) but is rich in history. Our hosts The Hanban organization treated us to a formal dinner last night that was quite the spread..

Today we visited the burial grounds of the ancient Ming dynasty and walked up the 392 steps of Dr. Sun Yay Sam’s mausoleum who was the first President of China and had overthrown the Ming dynasty. We also toured the Nanjing city wall which once fortified the entire city 1000 Yeats ago and took 200,000 workers to construct.

We had dinner near the local market and did a little shopping later. Everyone is quite tired but certainly a great group. For some this is their first trip out of the country and certainly their first experience with an eastern toilet. Fun and games! More later.

November 16, 2012 - Posted by hughharrisfca | Education