Been 5 days of teaching plus out to eat with a gang of 5 every night. I'm tired. But there's another trip planned. This one to Yixing. No word on what we'll see. Just hop on a bus with other teachers and a bunch of students and go where it takes us. Come to find there are two key things to see in Yixing: Nature and purple teapots. We saw the former, were supposed to see the latter, but there were no purple teapots to be found, it seems. Yixing is known for caves and a bamboo forest that became known primarily because it was the set for a popular Chinese movie. We visited one cave, Linggu. It is set in a larger complex. Our tour paused long enough for a "native" performance. People in grass
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