In the morning Tommy had arranged for us to take a tour of Sichuan Art Institute's beautiful new campus, almost an hour's drive out of the centre of Chongqing. The niece of one of his printmaking collegues worked at the school teaching English and also in administration. Apparently there is an American student here. She took us on a tour of the fantastic gardens and ponds and then we visited the oil painting, traditional painting and printmaking department.
It was great seeing the students working en plein air painting live models. Kelsey was definitely intrigued and yet again inspired to paint and wondering how she can arrange her future to include a year at the Chinese Foreign Language University learning Chinese, a year in France learning french, time to study painting in China, time to teach and work in China and a few years ago at the Sichuan University Art Institute studying painting. Sounds like she's got an interesting and busy life in front of her!
After the long drive back from the art school another delicious Chinese banquet lunch was yet again hosted by Mr. Song. He refuses to let us pick up a bill. Then we wandered around the downtown pedestrian mall. We ate dinner(did in their food court which consisted of a huge number of kitchens that had many many selections of so many dishes it was hard to chose. Not your typical fast food mall foodcourt like you'd find in Canada. There was an amazing range and variety of vegetables and tofu even to chose from and not a burger in sight! We love the huge variety and availability of vegetables in restaurants here in China--no wonder they've typically been healthier than people in the west. Then it was off to the rail station to catch our return highspeed train back to Chengdu.
After the long drive back from the art school another delicious Chinese banquet lunch was yet again hosted by Mr. Song. He refuses to let us pick up a bill. Then we wandered around the downtown pedestrian mall. We ate dinner(did in their food court which consisted of a huge number of kitchens that had many many selections of so many dishes it was hard to chose. Not your typical fast food mall foodcourt like you'd find in Canada. There was an amazing range and variety of vegetables and tofu even to chose from and not a burger in sight! We love the huge variety and availability of vegetables in restaurants here in China--no wonder they've typically been healthier than people in the west. Then it was off to the rail station to catch our return highspeed train back to Chengdu.
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