China

I had the opportunity to go China from Nagoya with my friend Cho. She lived in Tianjin with her parents. I have pictures of me making gyoza with her mom and meet her dad. Her dad was a police officer, and I called him Kojak. Tianjin had a lot of dirt and sand blowing about. We were able to go to see the Forbidden city and the Great Wall of China. I also got to see a traditional medicine practitioner who took my pulse. He said that my pulse indicated that my blood was centered around my heart and didn’t flow through my body correctly, so he prescribed me a tiger skin medicine to help make my blood through my better. I declined as I did not want to try to bring that back through customs!

We also got to go to Beihai park which was founded before the US was founded!! Many of the Chinese people would get up early to do exercise in the park such as tai chi.

I was approached by a lot of people who wanted to take a picture with me because I am Caucasian. That was something that made me feel uncomfortable.

We left Beijing and took the train to Shanghai.