Adventures with Chinese Acrobats
One of my best friends and I have been visiting a Chinese acrobatics group here in Orlando every week. They’ve been resting this past month and go back on tour in September. The performers in the group are all around my age and have been training as early as four years old. The things they do are amazing. I’m so used to watching them perform on stage I didn’t really know how to talk to them at first, but it turns out they’re just ordinary people with a not so ordinary lifestyle.
The group is made up of ten males and two females (the other three females went back to China). We took the two girls to the mall last week and they had the best time! They told us that usually they don’t get the chance to look at anything “girly” because the boys always overpower them in numbers. But the highlight was definitely having lunch with them. All 16 of us (12 acrobats, the two of us, their teacher and his wife) sat around this big round table eating Chinese porridge and steamed buns. The steamed buns pretty much look like white rocks about the size of your fist (typical Chinese food, really good, do not taste like rocks at all!) They had this huuuuge bowl (if you put your arms out in front of you and make a circle and then imagine the diameter about 4 inches longer) full of them. One girl held the bowl while the other tossed the buns to everyone around the table! It was exciting! I don’t know about you, but we don’t usually toss food at my house. =P
This week they took us fishing down by the lake in their back yard. While we used fishing poles, two of the guys waded out into the lake with large sticks. They caught two very large fish by knocking them out–wow. Skills. We almost caught three little fish (maybe 4 inches long) but they all fell off the hook before we could reel them all the way in. Talk about “losing face”. Haha.
Well, stay tuned for more adventures next week! [My Chinese has really been improving! Maybe that's my mom's secret reason for encouraging me to visit...]
Published on 8 Aug 2008 at 10:37 am.
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