Hi small lunatics! Aunt Kristel took me with her to visit a temple today, up on a mountain overlooking the city we live in. So I forgive her for forgetting to take me to Chengdu with her to see pandas. We walked around the temple, and sat for an hour talking to a really old man who didn't speak any english. So we drew pictures, and laughed alot! Then two of Aunt Kristel's students came to the temple, and translated for us, so we saw many things.
You can see in one of the pictures, me with a big stone pot of water. There is a story that many years ago, a famous scholar came here, and cured a sick person using water from that pot, so now it is said that this water can cure any sickness. But I don't know, I had a look and it didn't look very clean!
Then we climbed up the hill, and Aunt Kristel took a picture of me looking at the city. You can see a little of the temple roof in the picture. There was a garden on the hilltop too, and I climbed up in some bamboo to see if I could find any pandas, but didn't see any. Now I am trying to learn to speak and read Chinese but it is very difficult! Look at the picture and see how different the letters here are from English! Did you know that to write Chinese really well, you have to use a paintbrush, not a pen or pencil!
I looked all over the temple, and found a small statue of Mary and Jesus on a Buddhist altar. Don't know why it was there, but I wanted to eat some peanuts anyway, so went and had a look.
Aunt Kristel's students showed us the big bell, and told us that all the writing on it is names of people and families who have sponsored the temple over the years.
After about an hour, we walked home again, but I had quite a fun day, and now I am writing to tell you about it, and so you can see some of the photos we took!
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