Somewhere in Southern China

We had lunch in a village. As unusual we had another boxed lunch. This time we had some more eggs and the usual orange or banana. For the main course we has bread with a buttery flavor. The best part of the lunch was that we got to have Coke. After we has eaten our lunch the rest of the people went down to the near by village. We took pictures of the villagers and tried to communicate with them. Some of people were also playing with the ox that in a small pond. We then were on our way; our group was the first group to be off. So we biked and biked over hills and down hills. We had to make a right turn at a certain part. When we thought that we got there we went in an explored. We met up with Mrs. Buchners group. We went more into the village when we noticed that we went the wrong way! We had to go all the way back to he beginning and started to bike more. We went another few kilometers to the actually place where we were supposed go take a right turn. We explored the village while we biked. The scenery was very gorgeous. Then after a lot of kilometers and we met up with the other groups. We went another few kilometers till we found a small village. Since we only had 7 kilometers to go in a two-hour period. The villagers farmed clams. We watched them catch them and cook them for a meal. We talked a lot with them and "bonded" with them. After we had finished with them we went off more. We then stopped at a school. My group and another group went in. The other group asked the questions that were in the booklet and some other questions that they were curious about. When we had finished we spent some time with the kids. After we were off. We went no stop to our destination at the reservoir. Then we got there and had to lug our bikes up a big hill. We spent a lot of time there. When we had to go we got on the bus and rode off on the bus. We stopped a half-hour later to go to the basket factory. The teachers didn't want us kids to go so we stayed on the bus. After another half-hour we were off for the hotel. When we got there we took showers and went to dinner. That was the day.

Mr. How's group

4/21/98 Tuesday

H.K.I.S.

Virtual China

Morning perspective:

Today we had our second breakfast in China Overseas Hotel. From everyone's personal point of view the breakfast was much better the day before. As soon as breakfast was over we went on a scavenger hunt for a factory. In Tai Shan (the city we are staying in) the factory are much smaller than the ones in the U.S.A. They are as big as just only one room, generaly. We finally found a factory after a long walk. This factory was a printing and the making of cardboard boxes. To an average child this trip might of not sounder interesting, but if you are in the place where it all happens and study it in depth: then it becomes fascinating. There were olden German style printing presses, that had to be run by human labors We interviewed the manager of the factory, and he told us about the wages that his workers get paid. After the factory, we went back to the hotel, loaded the bus, and headed out to our destination. We met the truck that carried our bikes, and started on the trail. As we go along on our trip if there is a village that someone in our group would like to stop and take an interview, we are allowed to. So we found his village which had a hospital in it, but never got around to doing the interview. We bicycled out of the village and went to another one to eat our box lunches, and that's when the second part of our journey started.

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