China, the Nanchang and Tonggu Post
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przedOur second last stop on our tour was our most important: Nanchang, the capital of Jianxi province, and Tonggu, Ros' hometown.
The biggest tourist site in Nanchang (apart from Ba Yi square, which is where the Chinese revolution started) is the Tengwang Pavilion. The pavilion was made famous in a classic piece of Chinese poetry, and has been destroyed and rebuilt 29 times. The current version was built in 1989, but it's still a lovely structure.
Here we are posing in front of the pavilion.
A solo shot of Ros in princess garb inside the pavilion.
The view from the top level of the pavilion, with a view of the courtyard below.
Looking from the pavilion out to the city. Like every city we visited, Nanchang is experiencing a ton of construction and growth.
The day after we arrived, we made the trip to Tonggu, where the Social Welfare Institute (SWI) Ros is from is located. There is a brand new highway going to Tonggu now, but it still was well over three hours each way. This is a pic of us and the staff of the SWI, underneath the banner welcoming Ros back.
Ros posed at the place where she was found as a baby, just at the gates of the SWI.
And all three of us in the same spot.
This is Ros' foster mother. Ros had just given her a letter she'd written to her that we'd had our Mandarin teacher translate.
Ros and her foster mother. We had to communicate with her through our guide, and she had a certain reserve, but her foster mother seemed a genuinely lovely person who still seemed to care about Ros.
The staff took us for lunch at a local restaurant, where the meal was simple but some of the best food we had in China. This is the man who found Ros at the gate of the orphanage, toasting Don with the seriously strong local alcohol that was broken out for the occasion. (The director of the orphanage gave Don two bottles of the stuff as a gift.)
Ros and her foster mother.
Ros and the director of the SWI. The director seemed a really nice bloke, and the SWI is clearly well looked after. (The SWI building itself serves mostly as a home for senior citizens. All the children under their care are put in foster care.) This is in the main square of the city.
The three of us in the main square. Tonggu means bronze drum, and you can see the statue of a bronze drum behind us.
Us with the staff of the SWI.
Me and Ros doing a demonstration of roundhouse kicks.
The biggest tourist site in Nanchang (apart from Ba Yi square, which is where the Chinese revolution started) is the Tengwang Pavilion. The pavilion was made famous in a classic piece of Chinese poetry, and has been destroyed and rebuilt 29 times. The current version was built in 1989, but it's still a lovely structure.
Here we are posing in front of the pavilion.
A solo shot of Ros in princess garb inside the pavilion.
The view from the top level of the pavilion, with a view of the courtyard below.
Looking from the pavilion out to the city. Like every city we visited, Nanchang is experiencing a ton of construction and growth.
The day after we arrived, we made the trip to Tonggu, where the Social Welfare Institute (SWI) Ros is from is located. There is a brand new highway going to Tonggu now, but it still was well over three hours each way. This is a pic of us and the staff of the SWI, underneath the banner welcoming Ros back.
Ros posed at the place where she was found as a baby, just at the gates of the SWI.
And all three of us in the same spot.
This is Ros' foster mother. Ros had just given her a letter she'd written to her that we'd had our Mandarin teacher translate.
Ros and her foster mother. We had to communicate with her through our guide, and she had a certain reserve, but her foster mother seemed a genuinely lovely person who still seemed to care about Ros.
The staff took us for lunch at a local restaurant, where the meal was simple but some of the best food we had in China. This is the man who found Ros at the gate of the orphanage, toasting Don with the seriously strong local alcohol that was broken out for the occasion. (The director of the orphanage gave Don two bottles of the stuff as a gift.)
Ros and her foster mother.
Ros and the director of the SWI. The director seemed a really nice bloke, and the SWI is clearly well looked after. (The SWI building itself serves mostly as a home for senior citizens. All the children under their care are put in foster care.) This is in the main square of the city.
The three of us in the main square. Tonggu means bronze drum, and you can see the statue of a bronze drum behind us.
Us with the staff of the SWI.
Me and Ros doing a demonstration of roundhouse kicks.
