你们好!
This was my last week with my homestay family. It was a great experience and significantly helped to improve my Chinese.
I am now on a two and a half week trip with my group traveling around the Yunnan province. Some of the more famous cities we will be visiting include: Dali, Lijiang, and Shangrila.
For one night, we stayed on a Doaist mountain and had a lecture from a Daoist monk. We were able to go on a 10 mile hike with over 6 different temples a few hundred years old. I put my early morning riser skills to good use and was the only person in my group who woke up a 4:30 am to practice Taiji with the monk at the temple and listen to him play a flute for three hours. It was definitely worth and is a memory I will have for the rest of my life.
In Dali, I visited the famous and Three Pagodas. We also went to a tea plantation, picked tea leaves and roasted our own green tea! We also learned how to do traditional tie-dye of the Bai ethnic minority.
Tomorrow, I will be entering a rural home stay for five days. The family will not speak mandarin Chinese nor will they speak English so it will be an extremely interesting time!
Unfortunately, wifi is extremely limited here and I am unable to upload photos, hopefully next week I’ll be able to add some!
<3Elizabeth
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