Entry 8
Dear Journal,
okay so today was the Panda Nursery and the Jinsha Ruins. I mean what can I really say about the nursery? It was a panda nursery and so therefore it had to be amazingly epic! They were so cute and did you know that there was such a thing as a red panda? I didn’t, perhaps I’m just a bit slow on the animal know how. Well, the red panda doesn’t look much like a regular panda in my opinion. It actually looks more like a raccoon with red fur and splotches of black. It’s small with a long tail and pointy ears where as …well we know what a normal panda looks like, big fat with black white fur. I’m not exactly sure how they’re connected, but I’m not an evolutionary biologists either so give me so slack. However, the tour guide did teach me a lot about this animal. Unlike what most people think pandas aren’t herbivores. They’re omnivores, but they don’t eat meat because they’re too big (and lazy) to actually catch any prey. Pandas were discovered by the French and that is where they received their name. The pandas are nearly extinct which is why many of them live in captivity so that they can be in a controlled environment and breed.
Now onto the Jinisha Ruins. It was interesting but honestly there were so many people I couldn’t really get a good look. Of course people starred at me. One woman’s jaw literally dropped and she shook the woman beside her so they both could stare at me like so middle school science project. Lovely, but I wasn’t the only thing on display. There was this guy there who had to be at the least 7ft tall. Probably more actually. People followed him around and took pictures of him. They posed with him and one woman tried to make him hold her baby. They basically treated him like he was a freak. It was really sad. I don’t want to be rude but China needs to open its eyes a bit more and realize that people are different, but that doesn’t make them freaks. China’s not very internationalized. It along with the people are so cut off from the world that they don’t realize that there are people out there who are different than they are. It’s 2012 man, there’s a whole world out there. Get use to it! I don’t want to sound rude, but I’m just going to say it. I feel like China and its people are somewhat ignorant and closed minded in terms of the rest of the world. This is not a racist statement and I hope you understand what I’m trying to say.
For dinner we ate a hot pot which is a Chinese style of eating where people cook food in several boiling pots of spice before eating it. It’s really cool since you get to cook your own food. After dinner we all went to a Chinese night club. Haha. That’s a post for another day. Lets just say that the club was a new and very interesting experience. But if anyone wants my advice if you want to have a really good time in China than make sure you travel with some white people. Why you ask? Because to simplify it white people (especially white americans) are top notch. Ya know what I mean?
Well thats it for tongiht. I’m going to sleep. Night.
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