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You've read all the write-ups about Qufu. Well, now you can finally see the pictures to go with it.
This was on the high-speed train from Shanghai to Qufu. Once we were outside the Big City of Shanghai, everything got a lot...greyer. It was just rows and rows of these houses, all lined up with construction everywhere. The Chinese idea of a subdivision.
Yeah.
And here we have the school! Or part of it. This was the student barracks. There were two floors, and that smallish attachment on the left would be the washroom areas. Lots of stone, little insulation. Everything was very cold forever.
The training hall. Basically just a big room that also housed equipment. It was nicer to work in there even it wasn't heated, because there wasn't the windchill factor.
Where we ate! The big middle pagoda thing housed three tables, and one table each on the other side. Since there were only about 30 of us, we could all fit at once; in the busier seasons, I think a rotation happens.
These were mostly used by students for stretching. Low (about two feet), medium (four), and high (six?).
Training! I really can't express how cool this was; everyone outside, all of us different levels of skills doing a variety of things. Everyone just kept moving through their own paces. Very cool. (The man in blue is Yogi, by the way.)
From left to right: Patrick (I think), James, William, and Phillip. We hung around with James (from the UK) and William (Argentina) a lot; they're both pretty cool guys.
Wei Shifu (the same man who taught Brittany and I Wudang--the sword form) working with two students. The woman in the blue coat was the stand-in translator for the week while the regular one was on holiday for the new year.
William being awesome with the staff. William was really helpful when I was learning my swordform. Mostly because he was willing to show me the next moves over and over and over...
Kevin (from Alberta, Canada) being awesome with the staff.
This was on the high-speed train from Shanghai to Qufu. Once we were outside the Big City of Shanghai, everything got a lot...greyer. It was just rows and rows of these houses, all lined up with construction everywhere. The Chinese idea of a subdivision.
Yeah.
And here we have the school! Or part of it. This was the student barracks. There were two floors, and that smallish attachment on the left would be the washroom areas. Lots of stone, little insulation. Everything was very cold forever.
The training hall. Basically just a big room that also housed equipment. It was nicer to work in there even it wasn't heated, because there wasn't the windchill factor.
Where we ate! The big middle pagoda thing housed three tables, and one table each on the other side. Since there were only about 30 of us, we could all fit at once; in the busier seasons, I think a rotation happens.
These were mostly used by students for stretching. Low (about two feet), medium (four), and high (six?).
Training! I really can't express how cool this was; everyone outside, all of us different levels of skills doing a variety of things. Everyone just kept moving through their own paces. Very cool. (The man in blue is Yogi, by the way.)
From left to right: Patrick (I think), James, William, and Phillip. We hung around with James (from the UK) and William (Argentina) a lot; they're both pretty cool guys.
Wei Shifu (the same man who taught Brittany and I Wudang--the sword form) working with two students. The woman in the blue coat was the stand-in translator for the week while the regular one was on holiday for the new year.
William being awesome with the staff. William was really helpful when I was learning my swordform. Mostly because he was willing to show me the next moves over and over and over...
Kevin (from Alberta, Canada) being awesome with the staff.
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