Celebrity Status

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Dorothy and I made the mistake of sitting down to rest after a long day of hiking around an ancient city. It was not an actual ancient city, mind you, but was rebuilt as a model of one after the large Sichuan earthquake of 2009 destroyed the earlier city. Anyhow, we sat down and people started taking pictures of us, video taping us, and taking pictures with us. I'd say at least fifty to sixty people walked straight up to us, as if we were two metal statues of foreigners and took pictures of us. We were laughing up a storm. I wish I could have collected all of the pictures they took, but by the end I decided something- if you take a picture of me, I will retaliate in kind. So I have quite a few pictures of people taking pictures of us just for the last few minutes of our sitting down.

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Photos

Feeling very Chinese
They always do the peace sign in pictures... :)

Hyo and Libby
They are both year long students, who mother hen us new ones :)

Charlie and James
Charlie is going into the hotel business and is a semester student who is planning on staying here for a few years.
James is my next door neighbor in the dorms and is considerate and does not play his music loud. :)

Bernadette, Ming, Chuck, Michael
All semester students. Ming has family here, Bernadette is from Maryland, Chuck is from Nevada, and Michael is from Virginia.

Kelee and Helen
Kelee is from Canada and is in the year long program. Helen is my program director's daughter.

Comments

[Aunt Aimee]

I love your blog and your pictures! I think it is hilarious how much you are getting photographed! I would love to read the captions that they much put on their pics - "Large foreign girls visiting our city" ?? Hearing about all these cool things you are doing and seeing does make me wonder.....are you going to college there or just having the time of your life? :) I guess that hopefully it is both! xo

[Mer]

love you
i love you Taryn. i hope you are having still. i miss you so much i really want to talk to you after school but, yeah. i think that its so funny that you are now so famous now in China. i love you, Mer