Xi'an
13th July 2006
So I spent the day wandering around Xi'an.
The people here like squating, you know just crouching down like that can be more comfortable then sitting.
They also like to ware a damp towel on their heads,
a good idea as it is about the hotest and sweatiest place that I've been to yet.
Was told by people ariving from Bangkok that this is much sweatier.
There is an interesting muslim quater,
Men with little hats and beards, and the odd woman wares a headscarf.
Lots of interesting buchers streats, cows livers, hearts, carcases, flies, smells,
nice apetite for lunch.
As is often the case was asked where I came from, you can usually guess that this is the question and answer "i-er-lan".
Chinese characters each represent one sylable, so words like this are just matched up as closely as posible to existing characters, e.g. "i-da-li" just won the world cup, but of course each character has a tonal quality, one of five tones, so "i-er-lan" gets a nice down and up cork accent.
In this case next question, is i-er-lan a muslim country?
A little disapointment when we figured that it wasn't but Libiya and Indonesia are so it's ok.
There are a good few religions around, appart from Tauism and Confusism if they are actually religions, Buddhism is quite popular. I was given a nice gold Buddah card from a girl on the train practicing here english, there was another westerner who had learned chinese which made the whole journey much more interesting as communication was possible, a bit. I got a chinese name. This is what they do here get another name to make it easier on you, and give you a chinese one. My one cleverly means "likes to sing" while still being a chinese name.
There are even a few Christians churches and all!
So I spent the day wandering around Xi'an.
The people here like squating, you know just crouching down like that can be more comfortable then sitting.
They also like to ware a damp towel on their heads,
a good idea as it is about the hotest and sweatiest place that I've been to yet.
Was told by people ariving from Bangkok that this is much sweatier.
There is an interesting muslim quater,
Men with little hats and beards, and the odd woman wares a headscarf.
Lots of interesting buchers streats, cows livers, hearts, carcases, flies, smells,
nice apetite for lunch.
As is often the case was asked where I came from, you can usually guess that this is the question and answer "i-er-lan".
Chinese characters each represent one sylable, so words like this are just matched up as closely as posible to existing characters, e.g. "i-da-li" just won the world cup, but of course each character has a tonal quality, one of five tones, so "i-er-lan" gets a nice down and up cork accent.
In this case next question, is i-er-lan a muslim country?
A little disapointment when we figured that it wasn't but Libiya and Indonesia are so it's ok.
There are a good few religions around, appart from Tauism and Confusism if they are actually religions, Buddhism is quite popular. I was given a nice gold Buddah card from a girl on the train practicing here english, there was another westerner who had learned chinese which made the whole journey much more interesting as communication was possible, a bit. I got a chinese name. This is what they do here get another name to make it easier on you, and give you a chinese one. My one cleverly means "likes to sing" while still being a chinese name.
There are even a few Christians churches and all!
posted by conor at 5:23 AM
1 Comments:
Haha, Ireland as a muslim country, had a really good laugh :) That was a well funny description! I like your name too, how do you pronounce it? Lai Ktus Ing Sheedy? ;)
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