Chapter 37 - Chinese Fishing

Hello Again Everybody,
I know its been awhile since my last blog entry but that because i
have been out traveling and seeing more and more of this beautiful
country! I will have a blog all about my journeys soon and trust me
it will be worth the wait because i have some amazing stories to tell.
But that is too come so while i am working on the blog i will tell you
something that happened today. To tell you this story i first have to
tell one before for it.
So here in china it rains alot compared to Idaho. I love it! But
the rain storms here are much different from the ones back home. Here
there are lightning storms that will light up your whole apartment
with the bright flashes of white light. Very hard to get some sleep
sometimes with there is a bright flash happening every few seconds.
And the thunder WOW! The thunder hits hard here. And we are in a
valley so it echos like 4 times and just makes it 4x louder. The
other morning there was this super bright flash which woke me up and
right after was the thunder that hit so hard it tremble our house no
joke! This is the first time i have ever been woken up by a thunder
storm. With all these thunder storms happening this means a TON of
rain! There is a little river/canal that runs through school campus.
With all the rain coming down of the mountains, they lower the levy to
flow of the river faster. That way the school does get flooded by the
rushing river. With the levy down this makes the water level drop and
in some part you can see the bottom of the river that is normally
covered by water.
Now this brings me to my story that i originally wanted to talk about.
With parts of the river floor exposed this give the chinese the
perfect time to catch things to eat. There are fresh water shrimp in
these water and there were like 4 or 5 kitchen ladies out there
walking in this 1 foot deep mud with a plastic picking up these
shrimp. sort of a weird feeling knowing that the lady that prepares
my meals in out in a muddy river bed picking up shrimp out of the mud.
Plus this river isn't the cleanest water. Chinese have a habit of
polluting the waters.
Now so the kitchen ladies were hunting down shrimp but there is
another food out that some boys were hunting down. With the water
level so low this drastically lowered the area in which fish can swim.These 2 boys were walking through this seeping mud fishing. No not
with fishing poles they had different sort of poles.
One kid had a back pack with a battery on it with wires coming from it and it
connected to the pole he had in his hand. the other boy, a few steps
behind him, was following his fellow fishing partner with another pole
but this one had a net on the end of it. They walked simultaneously
on the edge of the river zapping all the fish in the water and then
catching them in the net. it was a neat little setup that they had
and it was very effective! in the few minutes of me watching them,
they had a good 10 to 12 fish in the net.
it amazing to see how the chinese use and adapt to their surroundings!
It's been an amazing journey here in China. I will soon have my next
blog about my wonder travelings! Talk to all of you soon and i love
you all so much.
Love Jordan