Tianjin (Tee-an Jean) 天津

On tuesday, our class took a group field trip to the newrby city of Tianjin, we visited one of the officially designated sightseeing spots, an old culture street. The architecture has been maintained, but the stores there now all sell knickkancks, paddywacks, and if you're aavvy enough, maybe even a bone or two. But they also have a lot of really cool stuff too.

This was the opening alleyway, in the background, through the haze of pollution, you can see a modern skyscraper, if you look hard enough.

My classmate, and fellow amerian allstar, Andy Burns.

We found a small sculpture exhibition gallery. The artists have preserved their craft through 6 generations, and their method of craft I must admit admiration for, even though sculpture typically leaves me cold. The sculpture pictured below is a tableau of mthe 8 d(t)aoist immortals. I'm planning to visit the major daoist temple in Beijing in a week or two, I'll give more detail then.

My Indonesian classmate, Yonkie, he's a great pal.

Hiding behind a stranger is my spanish classmate, Christina, or as she's called in china, MoDi

After the chinese culture street, we went to visit the Italian Style town, which had a whole of of places to take pictures, but not much else, besides coffee places, knickknackeries and a few italian restaurants.

It seems even statues aren't free from the terror of typos, 'the travesl of marco polo' indeed.

More of my lovely lovely classmates, from left to right, front to back, Jenny, Febby and Maria.