Saturday, September 09, 2006

I went to Harbin again for work, and it's already cold there!

Man I'm glad I don't live in Harbin anymore! It's already fleece and jacket weather, ewww. A few snapshots of the work trip:

Topiaries!

We went to dinner at a special Dongbei (northeastern-style food) restaurant where they have a floor show. It included:

A man playing the hulusi through tubes in his nose, quite a talent.

Let's sing old propaganda songs together, comrades! I remember seeing a show like this when I lived in Harbin before, and I couldn't believe people where allowed to do this. By this, I mean brazenly make fun of the old style Mao-worship.
Let's pull the silly foriegner on stage to sing propaganda songs, ha ha ha!

Scary, scary fat man who later sang a famous love song to me about an inch from my face while everyone in the restaurant went nuts. That's what I get for reserving a table in the front row, I guess!

And the Songhua River that runs next to Harbin. Lovely, isn't it? It was frozen when I was there. You could go down a 30-foot ice slide onto the river.

1 comment:

Kittiej4 said...

I just got back from the land of no internet (MI/OH) and was just running though all of your posts... they're Amazing! I'm quite jealous. (P.S. I don't have your non-UA email address!)