Trip to Wuhan

This week was the Chinese National Holiday. I took this oppurtunity to go and visit one of my old teachers from K-state. She lives in Wuhan and was just a visiting teacher last year at K-state. She was very kind to me and really encouraged me to learn Chinese so I wanted to pay her a visit while I was here. I told you about my actual traveling experience in my previous blog so I do not need to elaborate anymore on why interesting the plane ride as from Chengdu to Wuhan which is probably the same distance from Kansas City to Chicago. First of all Wuhan is a massive city again I cannot tell you quite how big this city was. It is actually a conglomeration of 3 cities the population is well over 1o million. It lies on the Yangtze river and has 3 enormous bridges crossing the river connecting all 3 of the cities. Wuhan is exactly what I pictured China being like before I got here. It is not as beautiful as Chengdu but it is massive and growing quickly. It had almost as many construction cranes as Beijing which is saying something. Wuhan is also and interesting place because it has always been a city that was defined by the river and the commerce that goes up and down it. In one area that is called the riverfront area where people go to be next to river. There are a number of old buildings all built in European style because in the early 1900's There where a lot of European interests in trading on the river. I actually have a picture of neat old building that had "National Bank of New York City" carved into the facade it was really peculiar and also very interesting. Anyway I just wanted to give a little introduction on Wuhan and while I was there before I talked about my trip.