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Re: China Trip Update

Randel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:00 -0000

Wow! What an adventure! Were the rooms dirtier than the hotel in Makati City? Remember that place? How would that school like a combination storytelling/ puppetry residency? ;o) I hope to see you both sometime soon.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Robert — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:40:37 -0000

袁先生感谢您的答复。我们希望我们可以在村里看到你这个时间。下一次，我们将有花更多的时间在一起。我们喜欢留在村里的人。我们下一组说书经验，留在村里的这个地方的文化。再次感谢您非常的一生奉献，为维护本社区的故事。耿村的民间传说，神话和故事，你的出版物是个宝。- - - - - - -
Mr. Yuan,Thank you for your response. We wish we could have seen you in the village this time. Next time we will spend more time together there. We loved staying with the people in the village. Our next group of storytellers will experience this rich local culture by staying in the village. Thank you again so very much for the lifetime dedication to preserving the stories of this community. Your publications of Gengcun folk tales, myths, and stories are a treasure.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Yuan210917 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:02:07 -0000

罗伯特先生，你的耿村图片很好，可以让更多的人了解中国北方农村的风俗习惯，我看了也感到新鲜！谢谢你。袁学骏
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[translated from Google Translator]: Mr. Roberts, a very good picture of your Gengcun, allowing more people to understand the customs of rural areas in northern China, I saw also feel fresh! Thank you. Yuan Xuejun

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Robert — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:01:40 -0000

It was so great to see the storytellers again. Though the cold weather kept many of them indoors. The tellers that passes away were: Jin Man Liang; Zhang Shu-e, and her husband Zhang Cai Zhang. It pains us each time we go to learn that one by one, these incredible artists, each knowing hundreds of traditional tales are leaving.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Robert — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:59:41 -0000

Thanks Anji! We hope that you and Robert could join us on our next delegation (slated for Spring/ early May 2013). With you and Robert joining us- we'd be sure to have lots of singing and music on the bus.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Robert — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:59:34 -0000

"The Bald Man" story is one of our favorites too! The weddings (3 of them) were all happening because of the auspicious lunar calendar day. We felt so honored to get this up-front-and-centered view of village life!

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Robert — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:59:26 -0000

Yes! There are many young people in this village who've grown up with storytelling. We've also learned that each master level teller selects 2 younger apprentices to study and learn their body of work. However- with pull of globalized urban jobs- it's hard to keep the young adults in the village.Cultural transmission is threatened by modernization.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

ginni — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:15:25 -0000

WOW what a fabulous experience. Thanks for sharing! SO glad the storytelling tradition will not be lost!

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Suzanne — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:22:30 -0000

I am so jealous of your stay in Gengcun! The wedding ceremony was fascinating. I like to retell the story of Two Bald People On Their Wedding Night when asked for a story from China.

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Anji — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:26:56 -0000

You two are fantastic - what a journey!

Re: Our China Adventure Continues

Kathy Hunter — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:43:53 -0000

Nancy and Robert,
Thank you so much for sharing your contact with the Gengcun people, who I think of so often. So sad to hear some have died and I wonder which ones... But what good news they're getting help to continue the storytelling tradition!
Bit by Bit you are helping them with this!~
Thanks again,
Kathy Hunter

Re: China Trip Update

Adriana Cassani — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:15:16 -0000

This is way fun to read. It is getting me excited about our upcoming trip. I can"t wait to hear more about your experiences there.
I am thrilled to be taking my five youngest children 17,14.13,11,10 to China for a month in January! I am taking (my four Guangxi kids) to Shanghai, (to see friends and sites) Xian (to see sites and visit the Starfish baby home for children with special needs) Beijing sites and history and visiting Holt international's Beijing Peace Baby home (for special needs children), Then on to Guangxi province to visit friends and my children's foster parents,their finding sites and orphanages, then on to Nanning to visit school children who need financial assistance to stay in school, as usual I will do storytelling for the school children there in Nanning.Then onto Liuzhou to visit two of my children's orphanage to do a CNY celebration and outings with the older children at the orphange (abandoned at later ages),along with foster children with special needs,then Guilin/Yangshou for more siteseeing, another foster parent/orphange/finding site visitand then back to Nanning and on to Hong Kong!
wohoo!

Re: China Trip Update

Nancy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:29:36 -0000

Hi Everyone! We're still in China! The next blog is on the way. So much to tell you! And then there will be a last one before we depart for California! What a time it has been! Thank you so much for all your thoughts and well wishes.

Re: China Trip Update

Dar2drm4ever — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:59:05 -0000

Thanks so much for sharing this great experience with us.
I enjoy your descriptions so much. And good job on the hotel space.
We never know where challenges may lead.

Re: China Trip Update

Suzanne Miller — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:51:43 -0000

Sounds like you had a fun time. The dragon story sounds interesting, I'd love to hear the finished version.

Re: China Trip Update

Cathryn Fairlee — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:52:57 -0000

Brings back China memories to hear your adventures. Tellingly written, Nancy! I appreciate the focus of the stories of travel or morals. I will need such advice next year when I teach story to high schoolers for the first time. Thanks for sharing the day to day reality of such a project.

Re: China Trip Update

Wabg — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:54:38 -0000

Wow, such tales accumulated while telling tales! I know what we can work on this summer on Orcas. I'm sure it would be a commercial success given the global nature!
Amazing how much you communicate beyond language obstacles. Can you understand their stories when they tell them? These posts are so nourishing to those reading them!
love wrapped around you,
Winnie

Re: China Trip Update

Yspiritual — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:21:54 -0000

Special, heartwarming, dedication, vivid! Thank you for sharing your adventure and your flexible, but clear boundaries, as you lift up the art of storytelling. Love you guys...Suzanne

Re: China Trip Update

Kathytales — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:04:16 -0000

Wow! Phooey on the coal dust but Yay for the acomodations you deserve and the great kids! Are any of them from the group we took to Gengcun last year?
I love to read your comments...almost like being there!
Kathy Hunter

Re: China Trip Update

Mindy Donner — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:49:20 -0000

Nancy, your writing is so vivid, I feel I was/am there! Of course, the work with
bright, unjaded students is familiar, always familiar, gratifying. Trust this will all continue to go beautifully!
Warmly,
Mindy

Re: China Trip Update

Robert — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:48:48 -0000

Thank you Karen,

Indeed dancing lessons upon this swirling globe! As we've walked the streets, plazas, and marketplaces- we see the children, elderly, the families in their everyday life- each person with a different kind of smile, or stare, or frown or gaze. Sometimes I wonder: What's their story? What have they experienced? If only we could hold all of humanities experiences into one story- we realize that we are dancing one story with many colored shoes.

Robert & Nancy

Re: China Trip Update

Kgmcclune — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:15:53 -0000

Remember that travel is dancing lessons from god. I have read every word and it sounds like you are dancing up a storm. All the best yo you and the lucky children. Karin McClune

Re: What are you thankful for?

Kathytales — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:43:46 -0000

Well, if there is no word limit....

I am grateful for a life in this beautiful place—where the
wilderness knocks at my back door and pulls me deeper into the mountains in
summer.

I am blessed with voices in my head that give me stories to
tell, and appreciate the precious time I have to listen closely and write the
stories down.

The light in children’s eyes as they are drawn body and soul
into a story, is priceless. What a rewarding life is Storytelling!

Last, I am thankful for life’s endless supply of novel,
creative and supportive friends.

Kathy Hunter

Re: What are you thankful for?

Jmetzler — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:45:09 -0000

I'm thankful for a second shot at saying that I'm thankful for my health, and for my children and their children, and for my darling mother and loving family and friends. I'm thankful that for my entire career I've worked with creative and caring artists, many of whom have become good friends. I am grateful for Nu Wa!

I'm thankful that I was taught to be an appreciator and to see grace and beauty in small things and for the times when I slow down enough to actually see and appreciate.

I'm thankful for my little house and for Michael who is putting the finishing touches on my new beautiful stairway.

I, too, am grateful for OWS and the occupy movements in the country and across the globe.

Thank you Robert and Nancy, for slowing us down for the few minutes it takes to count our blessings. Peace.
Julie Metzler

Re: Orcas Storyfest in Review

Nancy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:54:51 -0000

Both are wonderful! So hope to see you at both some time in the future!! And of course Orcas is gorgeous! But SF has great food!