#127 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Part 4, Yining, Xinjiang)

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December 12th 2010

Published: December 12th 2010

I have been able to recover one of my lost TravelBlogs, an entry I had prepared for publication many months ago. So as not to confuse this journey to the West of China two summers ago (2009) with last summers travels (2010), this 2009 journey was an official visit by the administration of Taizhou Teachers College to our Sister College in Yining, Xinjiang, in the far North-West corners of China. ... Read Full Entry

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Hans J. Schneider

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After 38 years as a Foreign Language Teacher and Foreign Language Dept. Chair at Coral Gables Sr. H.S., and A.J. Professor of German at the University of Miami, I have left Florida in June of 2006, where my home is in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. I have just signed another year's teaching-contract (my 8th year now) with Taizhou University in the city of Taizhou, located about 3hrs north of Shanghai, in Jiangsu Province, CHINA. I thought it would be informative for others and rewarding for me personally, to log the progress of my efforts from beginning to end, as a Travel and Photo Jo... full info

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Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 5

Balls of Cheese are drying on the roof of the kitchen.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 6

Mr. Xu is enjoying a delicious cheese ball.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 7

Grandma is proudly showing me her outdoor kitchen facilities.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 8

Here, little has changed over the centuries.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 9

The family Yurt

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 10

The interior of the family Yurt

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 11

This Yurt is available for travellers.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 12

The guest Yurt is more fancy with handwoven rugs.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 13

The guest kitchen

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 14

The one-child policy of China does not apply to the 56 minorities of this country. This Kazakh family had 3 children.

Visiting a Nomadic Kazakh Family, Photo 14

The oldest child, the daughter, rests on the furs of the slaughtered sheep and cows. No pigs for this minority.

We continue our drive through the Yining Mountain Countryside.

Our next destination in these beautiful region of Yining, in the Western mountains of Xinjiang, is a camp-ground, where our dinner is being prepared. As you will see in the following photos, I was not really prepared for what was waiting for us, or how truly fresh our dinner would be!!!!

On our way to dinner, we pass some friendly Kazakh faces.

The next 3 photos are taken from the windows of our van.

On our way to dinner, views from the van.

The horse in this region is still the preferred mode of transportion, and the way to their Yurts are reached only on dirt roads. We too had to share these dirt roads in our van.

On our way to dinner, views from the van.

These shy young ladies are surprised to see a western face in this beautiful region of China.

A dinner invitation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 1

As we arrive at our next destination, dinner, this man emerged with some parts of slaughtered sheep. I began to have an uncomfortable feeling about our dinner.

A dinner invitation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 2

At the entrance, this was the reality of our dinner. As honored guests, two sheep had just been slaughtered.

A dinner invitation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 3

A black sheep is being skinned on the ground. These next photos are not for vegetarians.

A dinner invitation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 4

A second sheep is loosing its fur on the hooks.

A dinner invitation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 5

This man certainly seemed to know, what he was doing.

A dinner invitiation at a Kazakh camp-ground, Photo 6

I am so glad, I was not there for the actual slaughter.

12th December 2010

max
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.........great life in China...man

12th December 2010

I did like the scewers of mutton-meat, but the image of a sheep did not leave my head.

anonymous
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haha,you did like why you will eat it~~~~~~~~~~!

12th December 2010

Jacky
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like
very happy see your pic, thanks hans .

13th December 2010

Celia
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Schneider! Haven't commented back in a long time, but I'm so happy to have this forum so that years after you left for China we can still keep up with what you're up to! We miss you so much here everyday and you really did eternally change our lives and made us better people. So happy to see you continue your enlightening travels and thank you for continuing to share them with us. You'd be proud to see that all of us that you left as juniors at Gables are almost out of college and ready to see what life brings us next (or almost ready, anyway). Love you! Thanks for keeping up with the blog :) -Celia

17th December 2010

Huang
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i just wanna say hi
i have no idea if u can notice my comment or recall me， i just wanna say hi to u. i was one of ur students at Taizhou Teachers College and i have graduated there for half a year. i am keeping improving my english though it seems to have no effect.to be here ur blog,it seems that i am back at our school with u and ur fat cats.....ahahah

30th January 2011

Vintotal
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Magnificient.
This is so stunning. I wish so much to visit this regions so rich of tremedeous landscape, cool climate, but inhabited with warm people. Thank you for showing us your journey!

9th April 2011

June
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Sehr interessante Photos! Leider kann ich nie den Sayram See besuchen, der liegt zu weit in der West. Ist das Rohrwasser (Wasserloch) aus einer Bergquelle? Die kleinen, gehorsamen Pferden koennen vielleicht gar nicht so schnell gallopieren wie ihren Europaeischen Vervandten. Ja, die Kochherde sind primitiv, ueberall in dem Land, Generationen waren ganz abhaengig davon, um allen Speissen zu vorbereiten, auch nur Stroh oder Holz wurden verbrant, sehr umweltfreundlich! Und, aufgespiesstes Lambfleisch schmeckt zwar lecker, der Toteskopf mit den Totesaugen scheint schon grauslich.

15th May 2012

frans Emmery
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Yining
Hi Hans,very nice pictures,i have more or less the same because we have a house in Yining.I am from Holland and work sinds 2008 in Azerbaijan as manager in a new pianofactory, (gilanpianos.com)The funny thing is when you are in the urgur district in Yining it looks like you are back in Azerbaijan on the country side.People are the same,killing sheeps the same but the food by the Urgur is way better and ofcource, the chinese food, the best for me.Still 1 or 2 years working and then the rest of my life i am in china to live and to travel. Wish you all the luck.

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