Photo-Essay - The Earthquake-Prone Sichuan Mountain Area - Part 2
Photo-Essay - The Earthquake-Prone Sichuan Mountain Area - Part 2
This is a follow-up of the photo-essay posted a couple of days ago. What I had left out of the first part was about the new school in the mountains that we had visited. We met with the school officials in the brand-new town that had been constructed because the original one was submerged due to rocks and mudslides blocking the river and creating a deep lake, and they gave us the tour of the area. We went first to the town bearing gifts for the students of the school that was in the town, but more importantly we visited the new school built in the mountains where the students' families had lost almost everything they possessed, and worse, many lost their children. These photos are of the new mountain school and its students.
As I had said in the first part of this photo essay, most of the students had never before seen a "low-eye" (foreigner) before and they lined up to get my autograph. These kids were deprived by circumstance and had I been a younger man I would have chosen to teach those kids rather than the privileged ones I taught at a private high school, but because of my age it's w iser for me to be near a good hospital and anyway my wife prefers to be close to her family. We now live in Chongqing, her home town.
1. The new mountain school.
2. The symbol you see on the side of the school has a design that I assume comes from a local cultural minority community. To me it resembles something I might see in Navajo country.
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4. The walls are decorated with artworks, and the decorative theme of the main symbol.
5. A typical classroom.
6. The students line up to listen to my friend's speech.
7. We brought gifts for the children. The boys already chose most of the sports equipment leaving the books, games and art items for the girls.
8. Guess they need a new net.
9. A favourite game here. My wife and I play ping pong almost every day.
10. Looking uphill from the school.
11. Looking downhill from the school.
13. And to the side. Note the terraced farming.
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Just another amazing adventure....
Another great photo essay. Your right, the second photo does resemble something of a Native heritage.
Love the table tennis photo.
Very nice....isn't it amazing how people find ways to 'make do' like terraced farming? I continue to enjoy your travlogues....