Change of plan, now not springs visit Having found out from the file that DR's finding place of Songbai Road is actually a suburb of Yangchun some 25 miles away, today we are off to visit it. DR has been prepped and as usual seems to be taking everything in her stride.
So as they used to say in the L'Oreal advert, "and now for the technical bit". Danielle one of the Yangchun Internet group put us in touch with our local guides who are living here and teaching English in a local school. One of their local friends is Laura, who is acting as our local fixer, and she is friends with Miss Yu's younger sister. One of Laura's school friends, Sandy, is also an English teacher at a school in Songbai and has offered to show us around today. OK, following so far?
So we get to Songbai and the first thing is we are taken to eat in a street side restaurant where the starter was fluttering around outside a minute ago, and in fact you step over the remains of his brothers and sisters as you come in off the street.
Songbai is very poor but very safe. Just really a one street town. We are taken to the local junior school where we meet up with a load of kids DR's age. Now I am feeling very weird as the local children have clearly never seen a European before and don't know if I'll bite!
It is all very friendly although a bit startling for DR but she eventually comes around and disappears with Laura to look at the classroom, while we have tea with the headmaster while a bunch of urchins crowd around the open windows staring at the aliens.
We spend the day walking around the back alleys and it is a weird thought that somewhere in these streets a link to DR exists.
She has enjoyed her day and we return to the hotel where we order pizza, which turns out to be a club sandwich!
A restful day planned tomorrow.
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