Well folks got back to the good ole USA from my China trip. It is great to be back going to another country like China gives one a new outlook on the life that we have here. It's great to be back, did not get to play any golf was in the south-western part of China just a few miles from the border of North Vietnam not much golfing in that part of the world.
So Halk... give us some details... What were the people like? What was the land itself like? What kinds of things did you see that made you go, "Huh!"? What was it like working with an interpreter?
What a great experience it must have been. Sounds as if you were in Yunnan and/or Guangxi.
Quite interesting place, it was some what difficult working through and interrupter, especially when the interrupter did not speak the very best English. I would say the one thing that just really got me was the working conditions, the company that I work for supplies equipment for the making of paper supplying equipment takes old card board and waste paper and makes new paper. Here in the US there are all kinds of safety rules that must be followed in China there are no safety rules, also there is no leisure time to speak of everyone works 7 days a week. My first encounter with China was Beijing spent the first night there that was quite interesting city very modern and almost western in some ways, the net stop was my jumping of point Shanghai now that is quite a city, but the real experience is when I got the Southwestern part of China it is very tropical almost desert like. I would say that the people that live there do not see very many westerns most of the people would see me and turn and stare that taken some getting use to but everyone was quite helpful and were willing to do what every they could do to help. I have been trying to recover from the 13-14 hour time difference today that has been difficult, but not quite as difficult as the food was in the part of China that I was in these people eat any thing that moves and some things that do not move. I will try to down load a couple of photos here shortly. All in all it was a great trip one that I will never forget.
Sounds like you had an interesting experience, Halk! I'm actually in Seoul, Korea right now. I haven't visited China but I can kind of understand what you're talking about when you say you can find anything that moves on a menu. When I went to a fish market in the city of Busan, I saw some interesting sea creatures for sale... usually live. In Hawaii, my favorite sushi used to be unagi which is fresh water eel. After going to that fish market and seeing fish tanks filled with dozens of live eels in each, I don't know if it's my favorite anymor, LOL.
Just posted a photo (in the member gallery) of the street that was just outside of one of the hotels I was staying at.
Speaking of food this was the first time that I have gone into a restaurant and go in a room in the back with wall to wall fish tanks and pick out the fish that you want for dinner. Also the people in the southern part of China are know for eating snake and also insects, did try the snake but could not bring myself to eat scorpions. The other thing I found over there that is somewhat disturbing to me at least is the tight controls on content that getting onto the internet it is control quite tightly by the Chinese Government.
Welcome Back Halk! How was the weather while you were there?
Thanks great to be back, in Beijing daytime low mid 50's night upper 30's-low 40's. Shanghai night mid to low 60's day mid to upper 70's and the desert area which was very southern part of China was mid 70's night to upper 90's day.
quite a diffrence in temps but also quite a distance from Beijing to the mid southern part of China about 2 1/2 hours by plane.
Here is something else quite interesting, where I was most of the time I was in China there are very few golf courses there was one driving range behind the hotel that look as thought it had not been used quite some time. I ask my interrupter if he played golf he said he did not it was way to expensive for the ordinary Chinese citizen to play golf. He said that it would cost him a minimum of a week’s salary just to play one round of golf. From what I could find out the cost was about $45-80 US dollars plus you rent caddy which is about $1.25 hour, you must (get this) rent a basket of golf balls from the course about $5.00 and then if you do not have clubs you have to rent clubs, all total the cost would be around $85-100 at one of the better courses. I would have loved to played a round but again this trip for me was a working trip spent every day I was there inside paper mills not much free time at all, if I get to go back I do plan on staying in Beijing long enough to play golf that is were all good courses are. From what I was told there are some top rated courses in Beijing.
October 27th, 2005, 12:05 AM
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