11.15.2011

China {Revisited}: Semi-Wordless

 The scene we woke up to every morning at New Day. Absolute silence and stillness except for the man sweeping the entrance. 



 So thankful that Scot was there with me as I fulfilled my lifelong dream to stand on the Great Wall of China. Even more thankful that Pete, our guide from New Day, was there to capture the spontaneous picture!


 Chloe working it for the crowd of locals gathered to take pictures. After a whole morning of this, she had caught on and decided to play along. Sawyer was just being nice, but he was not so much into everyone taking his picture.


 As you can see, they drew quite a crowd.



 Dried fruit of all kinds at the Bazaar in Urumqi.


 Woman worshipping at the Buddhist temple.


 Random man at the Buddhist temple that was very interested in Sawyer
 and insisted I take a picture of them together!


 The local market in Gaungzhou- 
where you can get just about anything you never knew you needed......like snakeskin.


 Or scorpions (alive or dead- whatever your fancy)







 Sorting scorpions (very much alive)


 Um....your guess is as good as mine





 School children doing their morning exercises


The "trash truck"

2 comments:

rachel said...

jenna, thanks for sharing this! what a unique look at Chinese culture. i love it.

Football and Fried Rice said...

Wow, the scorpion sorting looks like loads of fun! Those women also look happy to have their picture taken! I wonder what they are thinking when we snap pictures of everything!