An old story courtesy of Roldy of Kunming:

Roldy told me that there when he was a child he and his friends would always try to catch dragonflies. There were three ways to catch dragonflies:

1) Chase after them with nets.

2) Capture a female, tie a string to its tail, stake down the string, catch the males when they come to mate.

3) Capture a male, put mud on it, capture the males when they try to mate with the male (mud confuses them).

He said that often there would be 20 or so Chinese boys with nets chasing after one dragonfly! A scene I can only imagine.

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Pictures from two Sundays ago courtesy of Bill!

We had 30 people out there and five languages being spoken on the field at the same time.

Gareth

Another busy week in Chengdu, so not too much blogging action.

Two short updates:

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to be able to go to Korea to play in the tournament Jeju, because it would cost at least 700$. This makes me very sad. At first we though we were going to get group tickets for 200$, so you can imagine my surprise at the price change. I'll have to visit Ben another time!

Yesterday I was looking out of my apartment window at a major intersection and I saw a police car with lights flashing trying to make a left turn. You might think that this would be no problem, but the Chinese drivers seemed to think otherwise. Not only did they not let the police car turn, but even as he eased into traffic, the entire traffic flow shifted so that they could keep going. Eventually the police car was surrounded by cars on both sides, although he did make it through in the end.