Night out in Chengdu

Our program director, Wentao Song, took me and a fellow instructor and a couple of other staffers, Wei Wei and Jack, out to dinner one night. In addition to some very good food, we got a show, too, some traditional dancers and the face-changing performance (unique to Sichuan province, I understand). At top is Wei Wei, Stephen Rice (a faculty member from UNLV), me, Wentao, and Jack; next are three photos of the face-changing actor and you can see he has three different masks on (the trick here is that the face changes suddenly and magically); at bottom is a group of women doing some traditional dances.