Dynamic Yunan

Wednesday June 2, 2010

Today Class was a lot of fun. It is getting easier to listen and speak in Chinese for 4 hours. We went to dinner with the OU Journey to China group who is here for the week. We went to a really nice place where we had the Kunming traditional Cross Bridge Noodles. They give you a giant bowl with soup stuff in it, and plates filled with random foods, a lot of which we had no idea what it was. I took a picture, and will try to get them posted soon. Oh- they also put noodles in our bowl. It tasted really good, and I ate rose petals for the first time. Haha. The dinner had a small performance in it. The performance had 3-4 songs, girls dancing randomly, and guys randomly playing instruments. They were dressed in something like traditional clothing.

Then we went to what they called, “a bigger performance.” It was called Dynamic Yunan, and it was amazing. It was a show that was expressing the cultures of Yunan Province, which there are many. There was lots of dancing, drumming, and singing. They were all dressed in amazing costumes, and the show was just absolutely wonderful. There was this really cool little girl that was in it, and she rule the show for sure. The show is award winning at the Chinese Lotus Festival, or something like that. I definitely know why.