Today was an extremely physically exhausting day. The professor and the travel agency knew that we would be tired and thus, breakfast was served later than usual, at 7:30 A.M. I forgot to mention, during the entire two-week study tour of our trip, all our food, travel, and lodgings are paid for. I will not have to pay for food until we get to Beijing. At the end of this study-tour, however, I do have two five-page papers due. After breakfast, we rehearsed for the morning’s performance. At around 10 A.M. we watched as both Dong and Han government officials and other members from the neighboring Dong villages came to view the performance of song and dance that the villagers had been practicing for. The theatre was a small, dirty, little area in a back
... read more