Now that I’ve posted a couple of “out-takes” from the China trip, I should post the Itinerary, so y’all get the Big Picture of the scope of our tour. Details & photos about each date/event/location will follow in subsequent posts for the sake of length!
Monday, June 7: We met & loaded the chartered bus at […]

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The primary, stated purpose of these annual Windiana China concert tours is Cultural Exchange. This year was exceptionally successful (at least compared to the last time I went, in 2007).
We had 3 opportunities (out of our total of 6 concerts) to perform and interact directly with students: Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Changzhou College of […]

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Ni Hao! After the better part of 2 days to kind of turn my Circadian Rhythms around, I think I’m here “for real”.
I definitely have one more Chinese word in my vocabulary. Besides “Ni hao” and “xie xie” (yeah, I misspelled it in the previous title), I have added one that sounds like “pee-jo” […]

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OK, so those are the only two Chinese phrases I can think of right now . The first is the equivalent of “Hello!” and the second is “Thank you!”.
Saturday is Leg #1 of the trip to China. I meet up with 3 other people to carpool (or caravan, depending on space) to Valparaiso, […]

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