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WARM HEARTS, FULL STOMACHS

Marshall and Valerie Burgess are
Terrace residents traveiling in China.
By MARSHALL BURGESS
WHILE VISITING my wife,
Valerie, who is teaching in China,
we travelled to a remote area of

southern Shandong Province.
Valerie had~ invitations. from

some of her students to visit them

and their families in the cities ‘of

~ Mengyin and Linyi during their
~ school vacation from Chinese

New Year to Spring Festival.

We sel off by bus from’‘Jinan in
early February, expecting’ to
spend two.or three days in cach
cily and then go see the ‘‘tourist
sighis’’ in’ China. Little did we
know that these short visits would
turn into an extended 15-day trip
that never did take us fo the
“tourist”? places but was the time
of our lives!

. Travel is difficult in Chine. for
. people: who do not speak Chinese
or know: the customs. What —

should have -becn a seven-hour
bus ride from Jinin to: Mengyin
took us wo days. - Le
The worst experience in China
occurred’ changing . buses: at
Xintai. We were dropped off al a
corner on the outskirts of the city
for a 15-minute wait until the
Mengyin bus arrived,
An. hour and a-half later,..we
were still wailing in the biller
cold: of a North China winler

wind, nol really knowing where
we were and unable to communi-
cate with the people.

I would have gladly taken a Star
Trek transporter home to Terrace,
but Valerie never lost heart,

- When the-bus finally arrived, it

- was crowded with country people

on their way home ~to_ visit
families during. the coming
Spring Festival, a

_They magically made room for.

us and our voluminous Canadian
luggage at the front where we
were seated on lhe engine cover -
the warmest spot on the bus,

Three hours later we reached
Mengyin. The directions of how
to get-to our host’s home were
useless as they began at the bus
depol and.we were dropped off in
the city’s central square.

A kindly local -woman made
sure we had a hotel and some-
thing to cat in a nearby restaurant,

Because few. foreigners visit
Mengyin, a city of about 70,000,
we were instantly the objects of
great curiosity. Everyone wanted
lo meet. us and to help, so the next
morning. someone went to find
our host.

Before long, we were taken lo
the home of Valerie’s student and
sharing a dumpling breakfast with

~ he and his daughter.

Over the 11 days we stayed
there, we were guests of the

county officials for a banquet,
spent a day hiking the National
Forest al Mengshan in the Meng
Mountains and were the guesis in
many homes for traditional
meals.

It is difficult to tell if we suf-
fered more from the cold weather
or from full stomachs.

We scon learned the most im-
portant. Chinese vocabulary. for
guesis in Shandong: ‘'!’m full’
and “‘T can’t eat any more.”

~ Virtually all transportation and

commerce Shul down during the
New Year period, we soon
learned. On top of this, a heavy
snowfall blocked the roads for a
couple of days, making our stay
longer than planned. Our host as-
sured us that bad weather is good
because guesis stay longer.

The people of Mengyin are
proud of their city, county and the
nearby mountains,

The mountains are very beauli-
ful with mixed forest (predomi-
nantly pine), waterfalls and
scenic trails. There is a great deal
of reforestation being done, as
well as extensive orchards
producing the finest apples I have
ever eaten (sorry, B.C.).

Economic progress is obvious
with a large textile mill and vari-
ous other industrics,

But the hardworking friendly
mountain people of Mengyin are

ens

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