Hello Everyone...
Leap-frogging a bit with blog entries-- I am in Chennai India about to head south for some fun in the sun... but still have more blogs on China and DU course to up-load before I get to this part.
Anyway Christmas is coming... so download Skype onto your computer (www.skype.com) and give me a call!!!! I would love to hear from you over the holidays!
My india Cell phone number is: 9176192805
Love to all!
Carrie :)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Up-date
Hello everyone.
I have been safely in India since December 2nd. While diligently recording my travels in my travel journal, I have been without internet and now that I am taking my DU course, time. Rest assured there are several blog posts that will be coming soon. (I have about seven posts to finish up for China, and then INDIA!).
Love you all,
Carrie :)
I have been safely in India since December 2nd. While diligently recording my travels in my travel journal, I have been without internet and now that I am taking my DU course, time. Rest assured there are several blog posts that will be coming soon. (I have about seven posts to finish up for China, and then INDIA!).
Love you all,
Carrie :)
Monday, December 1, 2008
Tiannamen Square and Mao
The people here in China really love Mao, as Jeremy explains, Mao helped modernize China to the superpower that it is today resulting in making the country literate and bringing women into the work force. Sure he ended up killing a couple million in the process, buts 1.5 million in a land with billions of people?!
With that said, Tiannamen Square isa place filled with opposites and contradictions. If the stones of that square could talk, they would let out screams of pain and anguish, and cries of rejoicing and cheer, and hours of militant training and ceremonies and gatheriengs filled with hope and trepidation. And now it is swarmed with tourists and people selling postcards, candy, and wanting to take your picture for a price. The indescribable contradictions and opposites were a bit much for my empathetic body to absorb. So yes, I came, I saw, I took pictures, but I won’te be coming back anytime soon.
With that said, Tiannamen Square isa place filled with opposites and contradictions. If the stones of that square could talk, they would let out screams of pain and anguish, and cries of rejoicing and cheer, and hours of militant training and ceremonies and gatheriengs filled with hope and trepidation. And now it is swarmed with tourists and people selling postcards, candy, and wanting to take your picture for a price. The indescribable contradictions and opposites were a bit much for my empathetic body to absorb. So yes, I came, I saw, I took pictures, but I won’te be coming back anytime soon.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Food in the City
Food in the City
Jeremy and I are both great eaters, and to my delight he took me on a culinary tour of Beijing. It was great having a local take me to all the best spots, and a considerate friend who catered to my culinary palate and steered clear of meats and spicy foods. With that said, Carrie entered the land of decadent eating and ate till she was full EVERY TIME.
Some of the Highlights:
Chinese noodles, a Beijing staple. This is common lunch grub
Japanese all you can eat and drink sushi joint. I broke my vegetarian and non-drinking habit hard core here, eating all the sushi and fish in sight and washed it down with five shots of Saki and had beer for dessert. It was really good, really decadent and to both of our surprise I felt really fine the evening and day after…
Local Dumpling Dive
Dumplings are a family tradition in China. To celebrate the New Year kids go home and make dumplings with their family. Dumplings are a bit labor intensive, so it makes for a great opportunity to come together. Since it takes a bit of effort to create the dumpling there are restaurants in China that specialize in just making dumplings, offering a large variety of dumplings to choose from. Jeremy also explained that in China pork is not considered food, but a seasoning—like salt, and they put it in EVERYTHING, small quantities to add flavor.
Hot Pot
Similar concept to the fondue, except instead of Chees it is like a soup broth that you do your dippin gin.
Dim Sum
Lika a fancy Sunday brinch with presentation, atmosphere and servise as important as the food served, we enjoyed steamed cake (which was very nice and moist), dumplings and great veggies.
Hot Pot
Lotus root salad and hot pot dippins'
A happy Jeremy enjoying an American Sunday Brunch.
Tree fungus- a delicacy
Hong Kongnese meal-- complete with Jo- a rice porridge. Yum!
Jeremy and I are both great eaters, and to my delight he took me on a culinary tour of Beijing. It was great having a local take me to all the best spots, and a considerate friend who catered to my culinary palate and steered clear of meats and spicy foods. With that said, Carrie entered the land of decadent eating and ate till she was full EVERY TIME.
Some of the Highlights:
Chinese noodles, a Beijing staple. This is common lunch grub
Japanese all you can eat and drink sushi joint. I broke my vegetarian and non-drinking habit hard core here, eating all the sushi and fish in sight and washed it down with five shots of Saki and had beer for dessert. It was really good, really decadent and to both of our surprise I felt really fine the evening and day after…
Local Dumpling Dive
Dumplings are a family tradition in China. To celebrate the New Year kids go home and make dumplings with their family. Dumplings are a bit labor intensive, so it makes for a great opportunity to come together. Since it takes a bit of effort to create the dumpling there are restaurants in China that specialize in just making dumplings, offering a large variety of dumplings to choose from. Jeremy also explained that in China pork is not considered food, but a seasoning—like salt, and they put it in EVERYTHING, small quantities to add flavor.
Hot Pot
Similar concept to the fondue, except instead of Chees it is like a soup broth that you do your dippin gin.
Dim Sum
Lika a fancy Sunday brinch with presentation, atmosphere and servise as important as the food served, we enjoyed steamed cake (which was very nice and moist), dumplings and great veggies.
Hot Pot
Lotus root salad and hot pot dippins'
A happy Jeremy enjoying an American Sunday Brunch.
Tree fungus- a delicacy
Hong Kongnese meal-- complete with Jo- a rice porridge. Yum!
Ode to the tree trees of Beijing
Ode to the Trees of Beijing
Joseph Campbell studied the myths and religions of the world and did an amazing ob finding the same components that are threaded between them. One common thread is the worship of the animal or food crop that sustains life of the people of that culture. In India it si the cow, for the Native Americans of the plains it is the buffalo, the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, the salmon.
I am here to say that for the city of Beijing, it is the tree (they just don’t know it yet).
The trees here in Beijing get easily ten times the amount of karma credit then the trees I know back home in Colorado. The amount of work they do in a day, flitering China’s air is more then any tree I have ever seen! (So if you want to become a tree that gets good karma credits faster—go to China!)
Okay, so the air in Beijing is bad, windy days and days following windy days the air is actually nice.
But China keeps on driving, and operating their facgtories and burning their vast supply of coal that is the diertiest type of coal around… So it is up to the trees to get the cleaning job done.
And to this, I thank you, I worship you, you you tired, poor, overworked, underpaid, overstressed beautiful, strong, caring always giving, unselfish trees.
I notice all that you do.
I notice that you look tired and sometimes lonely when you are a street corner, all alone without another tree in sight.
I notice the amazing difference in the air quality when I stand next to you.
I do not take for granted the parks where you gather and create pockets of utopia for my lungs to drink among a city of polluted haze.
I notice you
I applaud you
And I LOVE YOU
I will walk on your side of the street any day.
With love and the Deepest of Gratitude,
Carrie
Joseph Campbell studied the myths and religions of the world and did an amazing ob finding the same components that are threaded between them. One common thread is the worship of the animal or food crop that sustains life of the people of that culture. In India it si the cow, for the Native Americans of the plains it is the buffalo, the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, the salmon.
I am here to say that for the city of Beijing, it is the tree (they just don’t know it yet).
The trees here in Beijing get easily ten times the amount of karma credit then the trees I know back home in Colorado. The amount of work they do in a day, flitering China’s air is more then any tree I have ever seen! (So if you want to become a tree that gets good karma credits faster—go to China!)
Okay, so the air in Beijing is bad, windy days and days following windy days the air is actually nice.
But China keeps on driving, and operating their facgtories and burning their vast supply of coal that is the diertiest type of coal around… So it is up to the trees to get the cleaning job done.
And to this, I thank you, I worship you, you you tired, poor, overworked, underpaid, overstressed beautiful, strong, caring always giving, unselfish trees.
I notice all that you do.
I notice that you look tired and sometimes lonely when you are a street corner, all alone without another tree in sight.
I notice the amazing difference in the air quality when I stand next to you.
I do not take for granted the parks where you gather and create pockets of utopia for my lungs to drink among a city of polluted haze.
I notice you
I applaud you
And I LOVE YOU
I will walk on your side of the street any day.
With love and the Deepest of Gratitude,
Carrie
CCTV (China TV)
CCTV
It only took four days in Beijing before I got to be on China T.V.!!! The television show is called “Common Ground,” and the topic for the day was “how the outside world viewed China and specifically Confucianism. This topic is right up Jeremy’s (my host in Beijing) alley as he has a masters in Ancient Chinese Literature. He loves, lives and breaths all things ancient about China. We sat in the audience front and center and got to ask questions to the speakers. (I am really glad they didn’t ask me, because I don’t know a lick of Chinese!)
It was great to see this part of China, by the end of this show the resounding theme was that this topic is much too broad to fit into one television episode.
~~Jeremy, do you have anything to add??
The China Central TV (CCTV) Tower-- you can see it for miles (when the pollution's not bad)
Some Chinese ads-- they love their spa treatments...
It only took four days in Beijing before I got to be on China T.V.!!! The television show is called “Common Ground,” and the topic for the day was “how the outside world viewed China and specifically Confucianism. This topic is right up Jeremy’s (my host in Beijing) alley as he has a masters in Ancient Chinese Literature. He loves, lives and breaths all things ancient about China. We sat in the audience front and center and got to ask questions to the speakers. (I am really glad they didn’t ask me, because I don’t know a lick of Chinese!)
It was great to see this part of China, by the end of this show the resounding theme was that this topic is much too broad to fit into one television episode.
~~Jeremy, do you have anything to add??
The China Central TV (CCTV) Tower-- you can see it for miles (when the pollution's not bad)
Some Chinese ads-- they love their spa treatments...
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