After a week in Si Chuan and 3 days living in the countryside the Project team arrived in Hongkong. Finally facebook, finally order in the traffic, finally being able to use English to communicate with the people!
Although I only stayed in Hongkong for half a day, the differences are there, ready to be seen! From home-made 3-wheeled taxi vehicles to big comfortable Toyota taxi cars, from half-developed Chinese market selling construction materials to big shiny shopping malls, the differences between the countryside and major cities in China are huge, and many. Being a country with 70% of its population living in the countryside and top 5% of the population holding more wealth than the remaining 95%, China is seriously divided.
Some of us from the project team lived with a farmer for one night in the countryside last week. We cooked noodles with open fire, made our own bed in the basement and played cards with the locals. It may not be the most comfortable night we have experienced with mosquito bites, heavy rain and no electricity, but it was definitely the most special and memorable one.
Put aside english which is totally useless in rural areas, people in the countryside has a very strong Chinese dialect which made the communication a bit hard. But still the Project team has got some really interesting stories to tell in the Project Book.
I want to share some of pictures from the countryside, along with some pictures from Hongkong, just for you to compare.
