因为在神没有一件事是不可能的

My first or second week here I went to the zoo. Now before I came to China I went to the zoo in Albuquerque and was bummed out because of the condition those animals lived in. Think of how I felt here. The first animal I saw was a donkey. (By the way, I ate donkey dumplings the other day. They were alright.) He was tied to a stake in the ground with no more than 2 feet of slack on the rope.

Then I saw the lions. Their cage is smaller than my bedroom. Yes, there are two of them in there!


How about the arctic fox. All their fur is matted and there are patches missing here and there.


And I thought the humps were supposed to stand up...


These guys swam around in water that you wouldn't even find in a swamp by a dump.


I don't like how Chinese treat their animals.

Now, on to better topics.

By the sea there are several bridges and chains that people put locks on. When a couple is going to get married they will buy two of these heart shaped locks and lock them together on a chain or bridge by the sea. A nice symbol, but it's not really practical for anything. Really, when one of them wants a divorce what will the other say... "But we put the heart shaped locks on the bridge! You can't leave me!" It looks nice though...




I have also seen some really beautiful paper cutting. It takes months to make things like this.




And just for fun, here's a picture of the dog.