Chinese acrobat pictures (and some other randoms)

The following are the Chinese acrobat pictures. The last acrobat picture was part of the finale, and it was what we were most looking forward to seeing. That's about 15 Chinese on one bike!

This one is from the Lama Temple. This temple was once a place where a count-who-would-be-emperor lived, and when he became emperor and moved into the Forbidden City the temple was turned into a lamastery, or the place where the Dalai Lama would live, worship, and study while traveling.

This is an example of a traditional hutong. Hutongs are how Beijing used to be; narrow streets lined with low gray buildings. Traditionally, the streets are lined with the gates and walls, behind which are courtyards and finally the houses. There's not many of them left.

These are the girls in my group for the 3103 (Logistics) project. Susan (in the black; her Chinese name is Shenshen) had the best english, so what would happen would be Susan and I would talk, and then she would talk to the other two girls, and then Susan would come back to me with their ideas and we would talk, etc. It was an interesting way to do a project!