Today my friend Michelle (Jiang Ying) called me up and suggested we go visit an old school friend of hers who lives in the rural outskirts of Chengdu and has a one-month-old baby. I agreed. The village was centered around a brickyard where two guys were packing bricks one by one with a hand press that resembled a huge waffle iron or play-dough kitchen. At the new mother's house, chicken plucking and fermented rice were on the menu. I avoided both, but had fresh eggs and a nice visit. Michelle brought her a breast pump. Later, we walked out to Bei Hu (North Lake), where we boarded a raft and punted in the mud to our hearts' content. Dinner was rice porridge, some fabulous eggplant and gross bitter melon. The End!Oh, also, a picture from the fall on Flickr.
2 comments:
nice shirt!!!! also, i noticed you're up to 196 photos in flickr. fyi: without a paid account, if you upload over 200, some of your older ones get deleted. you're only allowed 200 at a time. so be careful, or you will befall my fate.
(it's been so long since i ate eggplant......)
Thanks for the compliment (and the shirt, as a matter of fact.)
The shirt, for the dull of vision, says: "YALE. The Harvard of Universities."
And as for Flickr.. Oh no!
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