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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Kurt Wensmann
Foreign Affairs Office
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute
Eastern Suburbs
Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, China 333001
Hey this is my address, please do not send anything past November 15 or so because apparently it takes a month by standard mail and if they say a week, often its two weeks, but please feel free to send me something if you would like
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Foreign Affairs Office
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute
Eastern Suburbs
Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, China 333001
Hey this is my address, please do not send anything past November 15 or so because apparently it takes a month by standard mail and if they say a week, often its two weeks, but please feel free to send me something if you would like
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Saturday Sunday Monday
Sunday: Chiming's gallery as well as a ton of other people's shops all opened on this street and to celebrate we started drinking beers at 9:30 am and they all lit of a crap ton of fireworks. it was crazy, when i have a chance i will try and get a video of that from someone and post it. The picture is the remnants of the fireworks. Then the rest of the day was a work day and played some B-ball on the courts where wherever i go all kinds of people want to play against our team and see "this tall white guy" play it was good.
Monday: Was a work day, really didn't get much done at all, Xiao Min (he is our kiln fire-er) was firing a kiln so i watched that and tryed to learn as much as i could. Me and Nick also went to this bakery that has possibly the most delicious cake that they make in the world, Possibly! and besides that it is beautiful. Didn't really do much after that, screwed off the rest of the day and was put to work by Bob because of it.
This week: Mr Jin is going to be coming to demo coil-building wed - Frid, which will be great so i think thats about it. Later all. and much love!
Kurt
P.S. that is the wood we are going to fire with (or try to) and the same that we stacked the other day
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Painting and work
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Brush maker demo and lattes
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Mr zhan first pot egg vase throwing
Mr zhan first pot egg vase throwing
Originally uploaded by napoleondd86
Sunday free day
Today after 10am we had the rest of the time as a free day and it was totally great, i got my hair washed which was amazing, because its not just a wash, they basically give you a massage from your arm pits on up, its AMAZING! I followed that up with getting a blind man massage which is an actual blind man and they trained to be super good at massage, afterwards i felt like a piece of Tofu, limp from head to toe. ALSO, if you get onto SKYPE, its an internet video or phone chat place, you can give me a call, usually around my pc from 6-7 am and somewhere around 8-11pm, keep in mind that is time here in china, and its 13 hours ahead, and i am under kurt wensmann, all lower case. Skype me i would love to talk. This is all for now i believe, make sure to sign up to follow my blog that way you get notified when i update it HOLLA!!!!!!
BACK DATED! from Shanghai
September 8, 2009
PLANES! TRAINS! and AUTOMOBILES!
Well let’s just start from the very beginning shall we. To get my trip started off on the right foot I started by first missing my first flight from Minneapolis to Chicago, ok no big deal got put on standby and would arrive in Chicago about an hour and twenty minutes before my next flight, perfect! I sat on the tarmac for over an hour. Got into Chicago finally and got off the plane and sprinted to my flight, Made It with at least 2 minutes to spare! The flight went from Chicago north through Wisconsin, over Lake Winnipeg, through northern Canada, Alaska, over Russia and then come south past Beijing and to Shanghai.
Get in no problems, amazingly enough I have my suitcase as well. We get to the street curb and 10 of us pile into 2 mint green colored van taxi’s and along the way of something like a 45 minute ride I noticed a variety of things about driving. First thing, lanes and staying in your particular one is a very relative thing, lanes are unimportant and unnecessary. A close call accident wise is 4 inches or less, that is when you need to start to worry. I thought that it was fantastic! Oh and the favorite color of Shanghai is Mint green.
The hotel is quite nice, the water however is undrinkable so you have to boil it or have bottled water. The bed is like laying on a box spring but amazingly enough it is that bad, but I don’t recommend lying on your side. The street life at night is crazy, thousands of people roaming the streets, shopping perusing, and people trying to sell you stuff. They are fantastic at copying anything and they do. Dinner the first night was awesome and wild, I had pig ear, a fish and little crabs that I had seen swimming only minutes earlier, shrimp with all the tentacles and shell still on, duck, heart, fermented cabbage, a beef and “green bean” dish that was actually a hot pepper!, dumplings among a variety of other fantastic things, and that was just the FIRST NIGHT! Oh and with every meal as of yet we have had watermelon, which I think is kinda crazy, however it is extremely delicious.
Oh, and to complete with the trains I found out that on the Friday the 11th we will top the 13 hour plane ride with a 16 hour train ride
September 9, 2009, Wednesday
Today we went to the Shanghai Museum which was absolutely fantastic! The ceramic exhibit, which is permanent one, was amazing the pieces were all ones that I have seen in history books and magazines, and textbooks. See the attached video/s. We also went to this gallery district which was great, they had all kinds of contemporary art. My favorite of the galleries was one of a painter who was using making these fantastic paintings into sculptures by making them 3D with paint up to 2 cm thick. The district was awesome gallery after gallery.
I had Peking duck for the first time which was delicious, duck soup, garlic broccoli, chicken red pepper dish, tofu preserved egg, which is black and gross looking but good, deep fried pineapple, covered in sugar served so scorching hot that you had to dip it in cold water prior to eating, also bok choy and fish dumplings.
September 10, 2009, Thursday
Today we went to the Contemporary Art Fair/Exhibit. It was great there was an entire exhibit of Salvador Dali that was pretty crazy amongst a variety of all kinds of other sculpture, both bronze and ceramic, paintings and ceramics of all sorts. It was super fantastic, everything was extremely good, and the place was huge. The other thing that we did was go to a knock-off market, which was pretty wild with everything from any type of clothes, electronics, luggage, jewelry and everything in between. Ipod touch $40, North Face backpack $30, it was wild.
The food of the day was a Japanese fast food restaurant which was pretty fun and the food was very good as well.
PLANES! TRAINS! and AUTOMOBILES!
Well let’s just start from the very beginning shall we. To get my trip started off on the right foot I started by first missing my first flight from Minneapolis to Chicago, ok no big deal got put on standby and would arrive in Chicago about an hour and twenty minutes before my next flight, perfect! I sat on the tarmac for over an hour. Got into Chicago finally and got off the plane and sprinted to my flight, Made It with at least 2 minutes to spare! The flight went from Chicago north through Wisconsin, over Lake Winnipeg, through northern Canada, Alaska, over Russia and then come south past Beijing and to Shanghai.
Get in no problems, amazingly enough I have my suitcase as well. We get to the street curb and 10 of us pile into 2 mint green colored van taxi’s and along the way of something like a 45 minute ride I noticed a variety of things about driving. First thing, lanes and staying in your particular one is a very relative thing, lanes are unimportant and unnecessary. A close call accident wise is 4 inches or less, that is when you need to start to worry. I thought that it was fantastic! Oh and the favorite color of Shanghai is Mint green.
The hotel is quite nice, the water however is undrinkable so you have to boil it or have bottled water. The bed is like laying on a box spring but amazingly enough it is that bad, but I don’t recommend lying on your side. The street life at night is crazy, thousands of people roaming the streets, shopping perusing, and people trying to sell you stuff. They are fantastic at copying anything and they do. Dinner the first night was awesome and wild, I had pig ear, a fish and little crabs that I had seen swimming only minutes earlier, shrimp with all the tentacles and shell still on, duck, heart, fermented cabbage, a beef and “green bean” dish that was actually a hot pepper!, dumplings among a variety of other fantastic things, and that was just the FIRST NIGHT! Oh and with every meal as of yet we have had watermelon, which I think is kinda crazy, however it is extremely delicious.
Oh, and to complete with the trains I found out that on the Friday the 11th we will top the 13 hour plane ride with a 16 hour train ride
September 9, 2009, Wednesday
Today we went to the Shanghai Museum which was absolutely fantastic! The ceramic exhibit, which is permanent one, was amazing the pieces were all ones that I have seen in history books and magazines, and textbooks. See the attached video/s. We also went to this gallery district which was great, they had all kinds of contemporary art. My favorite of the galleries was one of a painter who was using making these fantastic paintings into sculptures by making them 3D with paint up to 2 cm thick. The district was awesome gallery after gallery.
I had Peking duck for the first time which was delicious, duck soup, garlic broccoli, chicken red pepper dish, tofu preserved egg, which is black and gross looking but good, deep fried pineapple, covered in sugar served so scorching hot that you had to dip it in cold water prior to eating, also bok choy and fish dumplings.
September 10, 2009, Thursday
Today we went to the Contemporary Art Fair/Exhibit. It was great there was an entire exhibit of Salvador Dali that was pretty crazy amongst a variety of all kinds of other sculpture, both bronze and ceramic, paintings and ceramics of all sorts. It was super fantastic, everything was extremely good, and the place was huge. The other thing that we did was go to a knock-off market, which was pretty wild with everything from any type of clothes, electronics, luggage, jewelry and everything in between. Ipod touch $40, North Face backpack $30, it was wild.
The food of the day was a Japanese fast food restaurant which was pretty fun and the food was very good as well.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
HEY!!!!!!!!
Wow is it absolutely wonderful to feel like i am connected to the outside world! China is so amazing and wonderful, nothing that i don't like (well maybe some of the smells that randomly and unexpectedly drift into your nose) other than that its great! Everything has been a whirlwind, its totally crazy, one thing after another that we see or learn. I now know how it feel to be a baby where everything around you is new and exciting and you are trying to take it all in and you can't do it all at once. You guys absolutely have to check out all of the new things i will be uploading starting today. We already had the master thrower come in and show us a demo which you will have to check out in the videos, tomorrow we have a trimmer coming in, they trim everything bone dry so i am looking forward to that. The schedule is packed, it will be a seven day a week ordeal for the next three months. I will also be posting a backdated blog post that i had typed up but couldn't get online to post, it is from the first three days that i was in Shanghai. Also, i will be posting almost daily but for sure twice a week unless we are on a trip so keep up to date with me, lots of awesome photos and videos to check out. i will also attach the rough schedule for the semester so you can have an idea what i am up to in upcoming days. Lastly, thanks for checking up on me as i go on this journey, i appreciate it a lot and please do comment. thanks again
Kurt
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