Monday May 8, 2006

ok, well, i'm at an internet cafe right now, and it sucks because i can't check my e-mail! they have some kind of censorship over here. anyways... here's an upate on what i did. unfortunately, i can't put up any pics 'cause i can't get the USB thing to work on this computer.

Sunday
- Visited the Grand Canal and Tai Lake..
- At Tai Lake, we did a habitat assessment... meaning, we described the environment of where we sampled. it was pretty cool, but the only thing was that we spent soo long getting there. took about 4 hours to fnially get there, and then it took 3 hours to get back..
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Monday
- on our way to Zhoushan Island...
- we stopped off at Shaoxing and took a boat ride in a canal, it was cool. i'll upload some pics soon. We ate lunch at a really expensive-looking restaurant... good food. tried their local wine .. they call it "cooking wine". I was sitting with the profs (Yuxiang and Steve) and some other chinese profs... so we had quite a few bottles of it. i ended up sitting beside steve, and he kept filling my glass.. the stuff tasted like soya sauce! he kept caling me "urbane"... still don't know what that means, even though he explained it to me. and now i call him "dapper/sartarian"... gotta look up those words too.
- so we had to stop in Ningbo for the night because we were having some bad weather... so the profs didn't want us taking the ferry to Zhoushan Island... the hotel is SO NICE and they have a real toilet! again, i'll post some pics later. we have all this food and free socks/underwear in there too..haha. what else... oh ya, tomorrow we might nto be able to go to the island again because there's supposed to be a thunderstorm... and the profs don't awnt us to go 'cause if ther is a storm... we might get stuck on the island for a few days... which is not what they want. but there's still a ton of stuff to see here in the city... we're going to check out some fish farms and take samplse by the ocean shore... sounsd cool.
- oh ya, and today we also went to this ancient chinese library... err, i'll post pics later.

so, that's my update. e-mail me and let me know what's up with you guys!