From: Motti Mor [mailto:mottii@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:15 AM
Subject: Fwd: songs.....
Hi,
What's up? I know that I'm late with the trip stories but I will do it soon. I promise. In the meantime I'm sending a song we wrote while staying in Hong Kong. (I hope it works.)
Enjoy
Motti
From Marge: Here's the song, folks. The audio comes through loud and clear and is GREAT! The video is too dark. Maybe done at night? Without knowing what they're saying, I love it. Imagine if I understood Hebrew!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Email No. 4
-----Original Message-----
From: Motti Mor [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: Trip to China (Part 3) - a few notes
Hi,I'm back to Cheng Du after a two-day trip to the biggest Buddha in the world and climbing a 3,000-meter mountain. It was nice but not as good as the time in the Tibetan mountains.
Now after almost two weeks in China I would like to share with you some experiences I've had.In Songpan after the horse tracking [Motti, do you mean trekking?] we had to wash our clothes (we really had to!!) from the horses and the smoke so we asked the restaurant lady. She said that there is a place which [we] can make it fast just 200 meters from her. So we went there but didn't find it so we started asking people and everyone sent us to another place. And when we reached the other place, they sent us to another place and so on.
A Chinese person will never say he doesn't know but send you to another place and will let the other one handle it.
After about 45 minutes we decided to go back to the first place and on the way, we found the place just two stores next to the lady's place.
But really the Chinese are very helpful and always want to help. So when you ask someone a question, suddenly you'll find 20 people surrounding you and trying to help. You turn your head and it becomes 100 and you find yourself walking in the street with 100 Chinese people walking behind you. Now, go handle 100 people that can't say "I don't know"!
The other day we went to a small internet cafe and there was only one computer free so we wanted to sit together. Arik sat down and I went to the manager to ask for another chair (in Chinese of course). He gave me a folding chair that even a 3-month-old baby wouldn'tbe able to sit on. It was a modle [what word did you mean here, Motti?] of a chair but still a chair. He basically said to me, "I gave you what you asked for. Whether you'll be able to use it or not is your problem."
When we were starting our horse tracking, the whole group already departed to the mountains but our guide received a phone call on his cellular (everyone has it!!!). We understood that he was informed of having a grandson. His boss, who looks like a town boss from the old western movies, didn't care so he came shouting at him to leave already. So we asked him do you have a baby? He said, "No, no baby. Baby baby." (A grandson I guess)
For now that is all.
Later....Motti
(Another interesting post from Motti!)
From: Motti Mor [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: Trip to China (Part 3) - a few notes
Hi,I'm back to Cheng Du after a two-day trip to the biggest Buddha in the world and climbing a 3,000-meter mountain. It was nice but not as good as the time in the Tibetan mountains.
Now after almost two weeks in China I would like to share with you some experiences I've had.In Songpan after the horse tracking [Motti, do you mean trekking?] we had to wash our clothes (we really had to!!) from the horses and the smoke so we asked the restaurant lady. She said that there is a place which [we] can make it fast just 200 meters from her. So we went there but didn't find it so we started asking people and everyone sent us to another place. And when we reached the other place, they sent us to another place and so on.
A Chinese person will never say he doesn't know but send you to another place and will let the other one handle it.
After about 45 minutes we decided to go back to the first place and on the way, we found the place just two stores next to the lady's place.
But really the Chinese are very helpful and always want to help. So when you ask someone a question, suddenly you'll find 20 people surrounding you and trying to help. You turn your head and it becomes 100 and you find yourself walking in the street with 100 Chinese people walking behind you. Now, go handle 100 people that can't say "I don't know"!
The other day we went to a small internet cafe and there was only one computer free so we wanted to sit together. Arik sat down and I went to the manager to ask for another chair (in Chinese of course). He gave me a folding chair that even a 3-month-old baby wouldn'tbe able to sit on. It was a modle [what word did you mean here, Motti?] of a chair but still a chair. He basically said to me, "I gave you what you asked for. Whether you'll be able to use it or not is your problem."
When we were starting our horse tracking, the whole group already departed to the mountains but our guide received a phone call on his cellular (everyone has it!!!). We understood that he was informed of having a grandson. His boss, who looks like a town boss from the old western movies, didn't care so he came shouting at him to leave already. So we asked him do you have a baby? He said, "No, no baby. Baby baby." (A grandson I guess)
For now that is all.
Later....Motti
(Another interesting post from Motti!)
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Email No. 3, first set of photos!!
Hi folks,
Motti sent some fabulous pictures today:
From: motti_mor@yahoo.com [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:46 AM
Subject: Pictures from China
Hi
Here are a few pictures of my first 10 days in China.
Enjoy....
Motti
Oh, we'll enjoy! It's clear that Motti is finding his way around China! Get a load of all these places he's been in just 10 days!
(Technical note: Motti sent me his pics in a Yahoo Photos album. I saved them all to my computer and then imported them into Kodak EasyShare software where I "enhanced" each picture, which basically lightens them. And then I imported the lightened pics into Picasa and put them in a Picasa album. See the same pics in Yahoo Photos.)
Motti sent some fabulous pictures today:
From: motti_mor@yahoo.com [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:46 AM
Subject: Pictures from China
Hi
Here are a few pictures of my first 10 days in China.
Enjoy....
Motti
Oh, we'll enjoy! It's clear that Motti is finding his way around China! Get a load of all these places he's been in just 10 days!
(Technical note: Motti sent me his pics in a Yahoo Photos album. I saved them all to my computer and then imported them into Kodak EasyShare software where I "enhanced" each picture, which basically lightens them. And then I imported the lightened pics into Picasa and put them in a Picasa album. See the same pics in Yahoo Photos.)
Friday, June 1, 2007
Email No. 2
Hello everybody!
Happy to receive Motti's second email this morning. He tells me he can't access the blog from China. And apparently no one else can since no one left a comment. So I have no idea if anyone but yours truly has read this blog. But no matter. It's a fantastic memorialization of Motti's missives to us. Motti, thanks for the great emails and looking forward to as many as you can get around to doing.
From: Motti Mor [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:40 AM
Hi,
Thank you all for responding. For those who used the blog, I'm sorry for not responding. I somehow cannot get in the site from China.
OK. After a week in China I can tell you that it is not only different here but funny as well. It is not easy to travel around this huge country although my Chinese helps quite a bit.
The traffic system here is so strange (and sometimes dangerous) because when there is green light on one side, it seems it’s a green light to everyone so everybody starts driving in every direction. (I mean cars, busses, bicycles, some sort of 3-wheel cars and many more strange things.) But somehow they manage to maintain traffic flow in that mess.
Yesterday I saw an old woman riding her bicycle. A taxi was in front of her. The taxi made a sudden stop and the women crashed in the rear of the taxi. (And I mean crashed!) I was the only foreigner in the street and I was the only one who stopped. I was sure she got injured. But after two seconds she gathered herself up and kept on riding.
Now to continue with my journey stories. We arrived to Cheng Du a few days ago and traveled around the city which is much more organized and modern then Beijing. After seeing the Panda bears we decided to pack our bags and go south towards the rear side of Tibet. We took the early morning bus (6 a.m.!!!) and started our long trip north. As we boarded the bus, we realized that we were the only foreigners on the bus.
The 12-hour ride was really hard especially when all the passengers on the bus (both men and women) spit on the floor smoke and throw everything they have on the bus floor. But it was a great adventure and we became good friends with the people on the bus who offered us everything they had to eat (chicken legs, shrimps, dried yak and more).
After the long trip we arrived to Songpan, which is a Tibetan village with horse-riding treks. The trek was really amazing with an amazing view of mountains, clouds, rural villages, and snow.
I'm running out of time and I can keep on going for days so for now it's enough I guess.
To be continued......
From Tibet on the way to Jiuzhaigou (9 villages Valley).
Miss you all already
Motti
P.S. Pictures soon...
Happy to receive Motti's second email this morning. He tells me he can't access the blog from China. And apparently no one else can since no one left a comment. So I have no idea if anyone but yours truly has read this blog. But no matter. It's a fantastic memorialization of Motti's missives to us. Motti, thanks for the great emails and looking forward to as many as you can get around to doing.
From: Motti Mor [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:40 AM
Hi,
Thank you all for responding. For those who used the blog, I'm sorry for not responding. I somehow cannot get in the site from China.
OK. After a week in China I can tell you that it is not only different here but funny as well. It is not easy to travel around this huge country although my Chinese helps quite a bit.
The traffic system here is so strange (and sometimes dangerous) because when there is green light on one side, it seems it’s a green light to everyone so everybody starts driving in every direction. (I mean cars, busses, bicycles, some sort of 3-wheel cars and many more strange things.) But somehow they manage to maintain traffic flow in that mess.
Yesterday I saw an old woman riding her bicycle. A taxi was in front of her. The taxi made a sudden stop and the women crashed in the rear of the taxi. (And I mean crashed!) I was the only foreigner in the street and I was the only one who stopped. I was sure she got injured. But after two seconds she gathered herself up and kept on riding.
Now to continue with my journey stories. We arrived to Cheng Du a few days ago and traveled around the city which is much more organized and modern then Beijing. After seeing the Panda bears we decided to pack our bags and go south towards the rear side of Tibet. We took the early morning bus (6 a.m.!!!) and started our long trip north. As we boarded the bus, we realized that we were the only foreigners on the bus.
The 12-hour ride was really hard especially when all the passengers on the bus (both men and women) spit on the floor smoke and throw everything they have on the bus floor. But it was a great adventure and we became good friends with the people on the bus who offered us everything they had to eat (chicken legs, shrimps, dried yak and more).
After the long trip we arrived to Songpan, which is a Tibetan village with horse-riding treks. The trek was really amazing with an amazing view of mountains, clouds, rural villages, and snow.
I'm running out of time and I can keep on going for days so for now it's enough I guess.
To be continued......
From Tibet on the way to Jiuzhaigou (9 villages Valley).
Miss you all already
Motti
P.S. Pictures soon...
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