Nick Caponigro, May 16h
Since my last blog many things have been accomplished and the first week was awesome. The people here are so polite, it is amazing. Our partners are awesome as well; they do everything they can to make sure that our stay in Chongqing is as comfortable as possible. In this blog I will talk a little about out time in Chengdu and our market trip to the Metro.
On Saturday morning we arrived at the Panda reserve in Chengdu after one of the best breakfasts I have ever had in my life. The panda reserve was awesome. I have never seen a panda bear in person before so I was very excited to be there. The pandas are funny because they just lie around and eat bamboo all day, it’s great. Also I have never even heard of a red panda before so I was interested to see what they looked like. For those of you who were the same as me having not seen or even heard of a red panda before: they look like a raccoon, with the tail and all, but they are red and black instead of the normal color of a raccoon. After the reserve we went to an opera in Chengdu which was very interesting. I am still trying to figure out how they were changing clothes and masks right in front of our eyes without us seeing it happen. It wasn’t like a traditional opera that you would think of with the loud singing the whole time; rather it was more like a magic show with the colors and the illusions that were being displayed. It was very cool.
We went to the market today to get our ingredients and products for the international food fair that is being held this week. We are cooking pasta with red gravy (I refuse to call it sauce), and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hopefully they will be a big hit. The market we went to was cool because it had all western style products so finding what we needed was fairly easy. The food fair is on Wednesday this week so someone else will be writing about it and will let everyone know how it went.
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