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Day 13, Wednesday, April 28 (Kunming again)
The legendary Stone Forest in Kunming China I had somehow turned off our alarm in the middle of the night so, when one of us woke up to go to the bathroom and checked the clock, we leapt out of bed as we had only 15 minutes to get [...] Day 12, Tuesday, April 27 (Lijiang, Shuhe and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) Jan and I walked from our room downstairs, over a small bridge, through the large garden to the breakfast room. There were two buffets. One offered a Western breakfast and the other a Chinese one. I chose the Chinese one. I began with congee [...] Day 11, Monday, April 26 (Xizhou to Baisha to Shuhe) Today was cold, very cold. Despite that, before breakfast, bundled up in my heavy coat and many layers underneath, I climbed up to the terrace to practice the Yang Style Tai Chi and to take some last pictures. As I looked over the landscape, I observed [...] Day 10, Sunday, April 25 (Xizhou) Our group enjoying breakfast in Dali Today was very cold and overcast. We practiced Qigong and Chen Style Tai Chi. We practiced longer than usual as a camera crew from the Chinese television came again to film us. This time Jeanee and Brian Linden planned to get a copy of [...] Day 9, Saturday, April 24 (Xizhou) I went up to the terrace at 7:30 AM to practice my Yang Style 108 Form Tai Chi with the sight of people working in the fields and barren 13,000 ft. mountains rising in the background. It was absolutely beautiful and peaceful with clouds seeming to brush the tops of [...] Day 8, Friday, April 23 (Xizhou) Today, before breakfast, Shawn continued teaching us the old Chen Style Tai Chi. He does the original form, the one that dates back several hundred years. He told us that we will notice a difference in the form when we watch videos of other Masters as most of them [...] Day 7, Thursday, April 22 (Xizhou) Today began at 8:00 AM in the courtyard where we started to learn Chen style Tai Chi, the original, style of Tai Chi. We also practiced the Eight Pieces of Brocade and our exercises. Behind us in the courtyard was a large backdrop of a wall with a fluted [...] Day 5, Tuesday, April 20 (Kunming to Xizhou) After our deep, long sleep, we ate breakfast at the buffet which offered the usual Chinese cabbage, fruit (tomatoes included), Chinese summer sausage (turkey? Tofu?), steamed buns filled with bean paste (I ate three), rice porridge with red rice mixed with white (congee). Sated, we boarded a [...] Day 4, Monday, April 19 (Kunming) We rose at 4 AM with very little sleep, rode the hour through the early morning mist and cold to the new airport to catch the plane to Kunming. The plane was packed with nary an empty seat. Coincidently, there were exactly six seats left—the ones the rest of [...] Day 3, Sunday, April 18 (Beijing and Great Wall) Jan and I rose early again. The elevator trip down to the lobby proved to be an experience in Chinese life and culture. When we got on at the 15th floor, the elevator was full. We hesitated to enter, but people motioned and then ushered us to [...] |
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