Last summer,I went to Sichuan--wow, a really heavenly-like place, yet at that time forgot to come here to share a bit.

Sichuan, locates in the west of China,with its captital Chendu, is famous for its production of Beauty! Yep! When I was there in Chendu, walking around I saw every girl was beautiful! Maybe because of its beautiful climate.;)

Sichuan is a good place for traveling, for its amazing nature,Well, Beijing for its histronical sense and Sichuan for its incredible natural scenaries.

The most exciting thing was--it's a place that giant pandas live!! they are soooo cute.

If you go to Sichuan, there are several places you don't wanna miss.
1. Visiting around the capital city Chendu---many to see!
2.Mount Emei&Mount LE.--for those who are interested in the religion of BUHDDSIM.
3.The Jiu Zhai gou Valley---this is a place that no one wants to miss!! It was named the world heritage by UNESCO in 1992, it's really incredible place,I thought I was in Heaven being there.
4,Wo long natural protected area--where pandas live,also strongly recommanded! There are many wild pandas!! They're abusolutely different from those are in a ZOO!!
5, Si gu niang mountain.---A newly opened scenary,which its name means four girls mountain.

Now all the tourist conditions around Si chuan is well built. I strong suggest that DO NOT join any tourist group,because it's easy to find a hotel to live and there a every type of vehicles for you to go here and there!

Yet here are some websites you may wanna consult.
http://www.chinats.com/jiuzhaigou/
http://whc.unesco.org/sites/637.htm
http://www.cts.com.cn/esite/jiuzhaigou/journey.htm
http://www.517sc.com/english/index.htm

This weekend I went home, it took me 7 hours to take a long distance bus!!
when i arrive home,it's about 4 p.m around the afternoon, so the school was just finished for elementary school and middle school.
I walked out, when I was on my way home from the station,I felt that I was almost back to my high school time;
well,after I went to college, only can go back home during vacations.

This time I suddenly decided go back on this weekend, and arrived on an usual friday afternoon, this made me felt so good---I felt that I still belong to this city! I'm not going back home far away, but just like a few years ago when I was still in high school---in the afternoon I finished my class, and walked home, to have a dinner with my family.

Today I read an article on Reader's Digest(Feb.2004, Asia Edition), titled 'The Secret Photographs'.
It's stories of a man called Li Zhensheng and his "secret" photographs taken during the period of The Cultural Revolution,when Li served as a photographer of a news paper. the 3 pictures on the book were really shocking me.Those pictures were not allowed to photoed at that time.So I really admired his courage!what kind of a person he should be?? hope can meet him and talk with him sometime.He use the advantage of his job so as to capture the history that we should never ignore.

Here are some descriptions from the article for the pictures:

"He photographed one high official compelled to bow on an unstable chair before a huge crowd, a damning placard hung about his neck and a towering dunce cap on his head. Black ink was splashed and smeared on the man's face until it ran down his body. Li writes,'I was using black-and-white film, so afterwards I could not distinguish between blood, tears and ink.'"---this is what I see too, at the first sight of the pictures, I thought it was blood all over the man's head....

"Red Guards shave the head of a provincial governor denounced as a "carreeriest" for having a hairstyle similar to Mao's; accused of being enemies of the regime, seven men and one woman face death by firing squad"....

Now china is open, and we know what we should know.As written in the article"Many of his photographs, once treasonous, have now been published in China, where the government acknowledges the terror of the Cultural Revolution somewhat more openly.A series of Li's pictures even won a national competion in the early 1990s."

The book he published:Li Zhensheng's Re-colour Soldier:A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution.

From Jan.13--Feb.9 I was in Beijing.Now have been back home for a few days and the school starts soon.
Well,I so miss the time in Beijing and so do my friends out there.
In BJ I felt totally leisurely and carefree, without any pressure.BJ is a big city while you got the feeling of small--people are slow, not too rushing and they're close;and you can see vendors everywhere.:)
I love BJ.

It's been a long time I haven't been here,suddenly want to come back here to write something---well, to share with ppl my thoughts.I'll be back soon...Got a lot to write about what's going on during the past 2 years.:D

Last Friday night in a Party of a Friend's home,I got to learn simle Sevillanas from an amazing French-spanish girl, it was sooooooo interesting and the dance is soooooo beautiful!!
Before I have ever watched sevillanas on video, and was attracted and that's one of the reasons for me to learn Spanish.
Anyone knows how do dance Sevillanas??? Anyone have ever watched the Video??? Anyone have ever been in Sevilla watching Sevillanas??? Tell me what you think!!!

I always found Hiking and swimming are good. But if these two can mixed together, then It would be perfect good. And that's what I did last few days in DINGHU Mountain, lies in the suburb of Zhaoqing, a city about 90 minutes on bus from Guangzhou.

The steams there, the rocks &stones there, the little water falls there, and the exotic flowers and trees there...on your way up to the peak, those are always accompanying you, and making you feeling like in a fairyland!!

I with 5 other girls lived in the youth hostel in the mountain, the second day we arrived there, I got up very early to go swimming in a natural form pool about 10 minutes walk. Because it was so early in the morning, only a few cleaners there clean the pathway, and it's extremely quiet. The water is cool in the pool, but after a few minutes, you become warm, and besides the pool there is a small water falls, So, can you image how is it like you dunk yourself in water and listening to the bicker of water and the sound of birds..¡­And also it's said that Dinghu Mountain is a best place to breathe anion.

On the top of the Mountain, there is a huge TING and several small TING , which is an kind of ancient cooking vessel. And on the 3/4 of the mountain there is a very old and large temple which almost 400 years old, and in the Temple there is a restaurant serves vegetable dishes , and it's absolutely good!! And also there is some kind of special tea from that mountain, which made by some purple leaves, but tastes like fruit tea. The Zongzi there is also very famous.

One day ,the other 5 girls decided go to Tixingyan, where I have ever been to, so I decided walking around the city myself, and a little but not quite surprised, I found a small Christian church there----I just walked and even passed the church, but suddenly an idea came to my mind, so I asked people passerby, 'is there a church nearby?' --and yes!!! the place I just passed, It is a church!!!(It's really small then if you don't pay attention, you can't notice it.) So I went into the church. and because it's only Friday noon, so almost no any people there, but only a worker of the church, so we had a nice talk through the afternoon.

It was soooooo nice staying in Dinghu mountain, so sometime in the future, when you get the chance to go there, and maybe you would see somebody cleaning the path of the mountain looks like it's me, don't hesitate to call out my name, because It probably is me!!;)

A wanna to be a cleaner in Dinghu Mountain's

Naomi

Almost a month I haven't added updates.....(now I'm haveing computer class...so.... I want to write something.)

Just now, I was testing my typing speed,(it was an exam),and only 224 letters/minute.

That's all....seems I don't know what to write after I haven't added updates since last updates.....

A pic by De Morgen/Panos. (Belgium )

This is a pic that I took On a moutain ,in Zhangjiajie,Hunan Province. The moutain is great...but took a long time to go down....(but it's worthy!!)

Last night I have taken my first class of poetry.---a seletive class.In this class we'll learn poetics(English and Chinese),Chinese classics and translation theones.

I think peotry is really wonderful.And has something to do with science----

See a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a flower
Hold infinity on the plam of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

----Blake(1757-1827)

This poem has the same thoery as Clone.


And I found some classics chinese poetries are really great,using a few words then can describe many !!
Here is one(has been tanslated into English)it's the origin of chinese poetry.

English

Bamboo bent;
Bamboo rent.
Pellet shot;
Pheasant got.

But I think after being translated,the poetry is no really the same---

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
---Shelley.

Poetry is,by defintion,untranslatable.
---Frost.


Any way...I love peotry,and peotry comes from our lives.

Universe's large,without limits.But mankind is sort of animal with strong curiosity,want to search for the secret of universe wholeheartedly:having ascended to the moon.then busy ascending to the mars.But facing this vast universe,when will be the end of searching?!Time and space,like two high mountains that couldn't be clambered up.But when climbing the mountains,isn't that kind of fun??The result is never important,as long as if only climbing the mountains absorbedly,working hard to uncover,maybe oneday,u'll suddenly find out in front of you ,there is a new world.Unconscilusly,you have arrived the other side of the mountian!!

Just now I found out that on the profiles,the"countries visited",Hongkong is also listed.Everyone knows that H.K.has returned to China(its autonomys).I recommend that should be changed in to "places visited!!

A not very pleased
Naomi

los países de Hispanoamérica donde se habla español(Those countries of hispanoamerica where speak spanish)!!

And also España,all are my dreaming places that I want to go!!Hope will visit all in future!!:)

But when we,the students go home,there are some kinda train that especially run for student,and there is no standing ticket,and very comfortable,BUT----very slow.OOOOpppps!!.