For our half day in
We walked over to the Carrefour that we could see from our window. Carrefour is a French supermarket chain. They usually have one floor of grocery items and one floor of household, clothes, etc. As you ride up the escalator they have every kind of chip or snack food you can think of. (Same ploy as putting the candy at the check out in our stores.)
This one also had some other shops on the 1st floor and outside of the checkout area. Chuck hasn’t been in a supermarket here, so he needed to see all of the things that were available. To see the pictures that I took in the Carrefour in
We wandered around for awhile and then back to the hotel to leave for the airport. We were there really early, of course, so we had a light lunch and read while waiting for the plane. (1 flight up to the plane) Our ticket said that there would be a snack, but since the flight takes less than an hour, the snack is really a bottle of water. Everyone kept their clothes on, so this was an uneventful flight.
Jian Wu met us with a car to take us to the Guest House of the University of Science & Technology of
The Guest house is on the edge of the campus and has a lovely lotus pond with a little island and a bridge across.
Our room is spare but very pleasant and large enough that we aren’t tripping over our suitcases all of the time. (1 flight up) It pretty much looks like a normal hotel room, but they have very cool switch plates. I think that photos of the university buildings were laminated onto foam core, and then cut out. Each one is different.
Hongfang Chen (Chuck’s mentor here) and Xiaolian Wang (her assistant) came to welcome us. Jian explained that the guest house dining room was in another building and took us over to see it. When we were there, he realized that we wouldn’t be able to order because the menu only had Chinese writing – no pictures. Much worry until the girl in charge told him that they had a set menu each night. He checked that this would be OK with us and “preordered” 2 20¥ dinners. We would just have to write our name and room number on the bill.
Back to our room (2 flights – 1 from the restaurant building level and one to our room in the guest house.) We decided to take a walk around the campus, so that Chuck could make sure that he knew how to get to the Physics building. The guest house is on the north side of the campus and the physics building is all the way over on the south side. It was a lovely day so the stroll was nice. I showed Chuck the market area. This really is a very self contained little world. The market area has about 10 small shops selling everything from ice cream and snacks, to DVD’s. There is a little supermarket, stationery shop, and a laundry. There also is a little restaurant – but it looks iffy on the cleanliness level.
Back to our room (1 flight) and then to dinner (1 flight). Our set menu was really pretty good.
It came in what looked like a Japanese “bento box.” Going clockwise starting with with rice was a green vegetable that reminded me of pea tendrils with tiny shrimp. One half of a hard boiled egg (still in its shell), spicy pork with a vegetable that looked like little corkscrews, (they were crunchy) and beef with beans. There was a chicken bone soup and fruit for dessert. We had a hard time ordering beer, but the guys at the next table helped us. I went and pointed to their beer and then they told the waitress. They assured us that
A total of 10 flights of stairs for the day. The bridge may have really been 2 flights each way but I’m only counting it as one.
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