Last Couple of Days...

Last weekend was the national Qingming festival, a time when people pay homage to their deceased ancestors. We had a three day weekend, and my family and I went to Yan'an, the site of the end of the Long March of 1934- about a 4 hour drive from Xi'an. The trip was overall very fun, besides the lack of indoor plumbing and the fact that my family decided Yan'ans food is bu hao chi (not delicious), resulting in us not eating a real meal for three days.

I tried talking to my host mom about the Tiananmen Square massacre. She denied that anyone died, then immediately changed the subject, asking if America was in a "national crisis".

Apparantly in China the numbers 8 and 4 are unlucky, so if you have either of them in your phone number, you get money from the phone company each month.

I've taken a lot of pictures but have been too lazy to update them to picasa...