PICTURES

Part of an archaeological dig that we visited.  They were excavating the site of the Hemudu civilization from something like 2-3000 years ago.  Very cool.  The gov't built a roof over the site to protect it...but it leaked.  Thus, the cave-in in the next picture.  Nice, China.


When I went to the village a few weekends ago to stay with one of the roommates' family's, we went to a pig farm that they owned.  Very strange.


Piglets.  Very cute.
This is the house that we stayed in that weekend.  It was super nice.
This is the front of the Buddhist shrine that was in the village.  Everyone came here to worship, and they hold festivals and religious celebrations here as well.
Buddhist idols/whatever you want to call them.  They were really beautiful.  I think I like Buddhism.

This was a view from my balcony in the house...mountains in the distance and a river down below.
This was what some of the village houses looked like...but alot were smaller than this. And dingier.
I'm standing next to one of the other guys in our program.  On the far right is that guys roommate.  In the middle is the roommate's mother...she cooked for us most of the weekend.  Really nice lady and a really good cook as well.
Cute dog that I saw.  I wanted to keep him.
Funny sign I found on a wall in the village...it was advertising "Radiation Protection Screens" for your computer because apparently, computers emit tons of radiation that will fry your face.  The text is hilarious.

Random street in the village.
These were shoes on display inside the Buddhist shrine...the ones on the right are what really threw me off.  They're shoes used for the practice of foot-binding.  People don't do that in China anymore, but it was really strange seeing that on display.

And finally, this is the room that we stayed in that weekend...there are three beds total.  It was actually pretty nice.