--Me and Jo and my little sister at the Ayala Dolphinarium
#Punching up the good life
Since Jo and I came back from Kaesong, life in Pyongyang has once again returned to its usual peacefulness. As the weekend approached, I made a date with Jo to go out with me on a trip during the weekend. The first time I saw this was when I was in a hotel room, and I couldn't go out anywhere.
On the way to the separation, I let Xiao Zhao go back to think carefully, see where we went to travel on the weekend. On Friday afternoon, she told me that she had already thought about where to play, and will come to me on Sunday. She also told me mysteriously that she would bring a mysterious person with us. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find the best way to do this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to find the best way to do it.
In North Korea, Saturdays are a time for the whole country to learn about state policy, and basically every Saturday is a time to do that, which means that all of us outsiders basically can't go out and have to stay in our hotel rooms.
Saturday I stayed in the apartment room all day, the morning in addition to the work of finishing the summary sent back to the company, the next time in addition to go downstairs in front of the door to see the locals in the ping-pong, in addition to the boredom of the room to watch TV TV show to pass the time.
On Sunday morning, I met Zhao at the door of my apartment. She had changed from her usual professional suit to a beautiful dress, and was standing on the street outside the door, where pedestrians couldn't help but look back a few times.
After seeing Xiao Zhao, I also saw the mysterious person she mentioned last time - another North Korean girl who stood behind her and talked to her from time to time.
Xiao Zhao then saw me walk to the front of them, full of smiles to me to greet. Pulled behind the North Korean girl, introduced to me and said: "This is my sister, just graduated from college, has not yet joined the work. Today we go out to play, she is at home by herself without anything, the past two days to me noisy want to follow along, I really have no choice, let her follow along with over, also hope you do not mind."
She by the way also introduced me to her little sister to recognize, the little sister saw me for the first time, looks a little shy, just a symbolic smile at me, and next to the sister whispered a sentence, to hide behind the sister to go.
Looking at my little sister's shy expression, I was a little embarrassed. I couldn't understand what I was saying, so I had to speak to Xiao Zhao, "Little sister looks very pretty, both of you sisters are especially beautiful."
After hearing this, Zhao smiled and said, "When my little sister saw you, she was a bit scared and felt that you looked a bit fierce. She is not a foreign language major, can not speak Chinese, although at home in the study a little, but also can only say a few simple sentences. You don't mind."
When I heard Xiao Zhao say this, I was really a bit speechless. Rhetorical question Xiao Zhao: "We have been together for so long, I have so fierce? Tell Little Sister, I'm a very good person." I remembered that there were still a few chocolates in the bag I had brought along, so I took them out and gave them to Little Zhao, asking her to share them with Little Sister. Perhaps this will make her relax her guard against me, watching the little sister take the chocolates, should more or less drop some guard against me.
Then I asked Xiao Zhao: "Where are we going to play today? It seems that you have already thought of a destination. Today I will follow you two sisters, let's hurry up and go ." At this time, I do not want to stay in front of the apartment, there are two beautiful North Korean girls followed by the side, at this moment in this place seems very striking, it is better to leave early.
The three of us walked to the cab parked on the side of the road, the place where we are going to need to take a cab, which is a bit far away from here. On the way there, Jo told me that we were going to the famous Oceanarium in Pyongyang, and that she had found out that there would be a dolphin show today. My little sister, who was sitting in the front row, heard us and excitedly chimed in. Zhao was interpreting for me. She knew that there would be a show today, and that's why she followed us here.
I smiled and asked my little sister: "Do you still feel that I am fierce ah, before you went to the dolphin museum did not? Today past you have to play well, the evening I invite you to dinner, what you want to eat can tell me." The little sister heard me speak, the expression on her face is very confused, it should be she did not understand what I said, Xiao Zhao on the side to do the translation for her.
Sitting in the front row of the little sister after hearing, expression then a happy, happy to us after saying a few words, in the see Xiao Zhao a little harsh to her after saying a few words, to my face full of unhappy said: "Thank you!" After that, they silently turned to face forward to look at the road.
I looked at the two sisters in front of me, it should be the little Zhao girl in the education of the little sister. I then asked the side of the small Zhao: "What's going on? How do you say to the little sister, how to also train on. How she looked and some unhappy again?"
Xiao Zhao told me at this time: "Little sister is looking at us almost to the dolphin museum, in the evening I told her you want to invite her to dinner, but also asked her what she would like to eat, she was a little excited, too happy. I got a little angry when she told me that she didn't expect to have anything to eat out here today, and that she wanted to eat so much that she didn't know what to eat."
"I told her no asking me to buy dinner. After you play there, you have to go home. How can you go out and have a night out for dinner."
After I heard the sisters' conversation, I told Jo to just stop being so mean to her little sister. Today for the first time to see her, anyway, there is nothing to do, after going to play today, we will take the little sister to eat delicious, eat what you choose the place. Tell her, today we go out all to play happily, not to be unhappy.
Xiao Zhao finally saw a long-lost smile on his little sister's face after he told her. It seems that the little Zhao girl at home in private should be very strict ah, I deliberately pointed to the little Zhao asked the little sister, your sister at home is not particularly fierce to you, often say teach you ah.
I saw Xiao Zhao some not quite want to translate, let her translation to the little sister to listen to, next to the little sister shouted to her translation to their own what is the content. As expected, after Xiao Zhao translated to the little sister, the little sister is estimated to be afraid to say that I do not understand, it made a helpless face at me feel turned toward the front.
Sitting beside the small Zhao see this, are some can not help but laugh. Laughing while telling me, home parents are at work, very little time to care for their two sisters, usually she asked more, on the life of the little sister is a little harsh.
At the moment, I saw the two sisters talking and laughing, and it was really a sisterly love, such a cozy scene that brought me into it at once. The little sister at this time also did not see me when the wariness, on the road, but also had to pass my cell phone, flipping through her favorite Chinese songs.
I talked to Zhao about how she hadn't joined the workforce since she graduated. She has always dreamed of opening a store, but obviously it is very difficult here in Pyongyang, so she thought of finding a salesperson first, and then thinking of opening her own store later, but she has not found a suitable one yet.
Hearing Xiao Zhao's words, I told her with some excitement that if I wholesaled some clothes in China and let my little sister sell them in the stores here, wouldn't I be able to work as a salesperson? I asked Xiao Zhao if this was a good idea, so that it would not be able to solve the matter of my little sister's work.
Xiao Zhao listened to it and also felt it was a good idea. Then we talked a lot of things about this idea, she is ready to plan to turn back to find Wu guidance to understand this aspect of things.
This plan has been communicated many times with Zhao, and has not been realized due to various obstacles. Until finally about to realize when the domestic company suddenly want to terminate the business here, finally did not make it. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
We finally arrived at today's destination, the Ayala Dolphinarium, located in the center of Pyongyang on the banks of the Datong River, after nearly half an hour's journey. When I got out of the car to pay the cab fare, it really made me feel a little pain, a **** 80 yuan fare, the legendary Pyongyang starting price of 2 dollars cab is really true to its name.
At this point we stood on the side of the road, looking at the opposite side of the external shape of the building is very unique, Zhao told me that this is the popular North Korean people's cultural and leisure center - Ayala Dolphin Museum.
At this moment, a group of North Korean schoolchildren in formal school uniforms came up beside us, and each of them went inside with great excitement. Although I couldn't understand their conversations with each other, I could guess from their excited faces that they must be thinking about what they would see when they went in to visit the dolphinarium.
We also walked into the hall with them, Xiao Zhao took out my passport, let me and my sister at the front desk to wait for her to go to the formalities back, where foreigners need to go specifically to do the formalities before you can go in to visit the tour.
My sister and I were sitting in the lobby seat waiting for Zhao to come back, today there are a lot of people coming over to play, most of them are local families with small children to play.
At this time, I saw Xiao Zhao walked over to us, and behind her came a beautiful female guide in Korean national costume, who greeted me enthusiastically after seeing me. "Welcome to the Ayala Dolphin Museum! I'll be leading you on a tour of the scenery here next."
After learning that the entrance fee for the Xiao Zhao sisters is only 10 dongs, while I, an outsider, need to pay 100 yuan RMB for the entrance fee, I am not surprised at the arrival of the pretty female guide in front of me, and I feel that this is the guide who paid for the tour. At this time to be able to have a guide to lead us to visit, naturally, is no better, our line of three with the beautiful female guide in front of the footsteps, into the ocean world full of dreams.
This is an aquarium with more than 1,200 square meters, two floors above ground and one underground. Now we follow the guide into the marine world here, on both sides of the huge glass wall, there are about 120 kinds of rare ornamental fish, in their own free swimming, there are a variety of coral reefs in the water, algae layout.
Here you can let the tourists come to sightseeing tourists have like the feeling of being at the bottom of the sea, sound immersive to appreciate a variety of beautiful fish, and distributed in various parts of the beautiful coral reefs, plants in the water. I am looking at the occasional fish in front of me, as if I were walking with Jo to the bottom of the sea world, I did not think that in Pyongyang you can see such a fantastic scene.
In front of us, there is a group of children at the entrance, and they are all looking at the beautiful fish in the glass wall in twos and threes, communicating with each other. Everywhere is full of shocked expression, see their excited expression at this moment, really happy for them, in their childhood can enjoy such a colorful scenery, is also a kind of happiness.
At this point, the guide led us into the marine knowledge popularization room here, as well as the taxidermy showroom.
We entered a completely artificial underwater world, the room is surrounded by a variety of fish specimens, sharks, shells, turtles, jellyfish modeling, and there are a lot of specimens that I have not seen the model, so people look at the unforgettable. There is also a TV set in the distance, this time in the uninterrupted broadcast of science programs, this time there are a lot of people are here to take pictures. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good look at this.
When we arrived here, the beautiful female tour guide basically finished her explanation, the following is our free time, down the road is the main event of the day - the dolphin show program. The guide led us all the way to the front row of seats in the grandstand, in front of the viewing area of the best position to sit down, next to Zhao also told me with a smile, today their sisters are dipped in my light, occupy the C seat to watch.
The layout of this place is two floors above ground connected together, forming a huge dolphin show stage. Surrounded by bleachers to watch the show is estimated to be able to accommodate thousands of viewers. At this time the bleachers have been successively full of people, the most striking is the distant bleachers a group of small Korean children wearing school uniforms, see the stage dress up, in loud jokes, each tender face with a happy and excited smile.
Xiao Zhao got up and went outside at this point, and my little sister and I wondered what she had gone to do again. Little sister saw me questioning her, she also spread her hands, shaking her head to indicate that she was not sure. Until the stage in front of the host began to speak on stage, Xiao Zhao only from the entrance holding a package of things, squeezed through the crowd over, it turned out that she was thoughtful to go to buy food and drink for us to go. After receiving the water bottle she handed to us, I realized that I was really thirsty. At this time the little Zhao girl is really warm, very sweet!
We just sat down soon, the front stage began a wonderful show. The center of the stage is a whole pool of specially transported seawater, we sat in front of the can clearly smell the fishy smell of seawater. At this time in the seawater shuttle dolphins in the trainer's guidance, doing a variety of wonderful performance.
To the audience on the bleachers to do a circle, jumping, and in the air flipping a variety of wonderful show program, attracted the audience from time to time ringing thunderous applause. The host also let the stands of an elementary school students go up to experience, close observation of dolphins.
When this child came to the shore, the dolphin in the sea water, after listening to the trainer's command, jumped up and the children on the shore to have a kiss, directly to a close contact, such a scene triggered the whole scene screamed again and again, and resounded with fierce applause. I'm afraid that such scenes will be in the scene to participate in the children have left a strong life, accompanied by an unforgettable childhood.
Next is the dolphin counting show, the host of the stage at this time cast his eyes on me, this time the focus of the whole scene are converging on me here, I have not understood how? The next Xiao Zhao rushed to me and said: "The host said you are very welcome to come over to watch the show, and now she chose you to give the dolphin a math problem to test the dolphin's intelligence. You have become the lucky audience here."
Looking at the many locals in front of me looking at me in silence, I was a little thumping with excitement, my mood became unusually excited, I did not expect to watch the show in Pyongyang, and there is a chance to become a lucky audience. I quickly pulled up Xiao Zhao, let her give me as a translator, after understanding the rules of the game, to the dolphin out of a ten within the addition, subtraction and multiplication arithmetic problems, let the dolphin in the water listen to their own calculations, and then the dolphin will use its head to hit the water pedals to send out a bell, the number of times the ringing of the bell on behalf of the dolphin calculations of the results.
This is a fun interactive session, and I didn't realize it would have to be done this way. I was a little worried about whether the dolphin in the water would be able to finish the show. I was a little worried about whether the dolphins in the water would be able to complete the show. I was a little unsure about the math problem of multiplying 2 by 3, and I was worried that it would be a little complicated. At this time, the side of the small Zhao, and the little sister directly reveal shocked incredulous expression, too surprising. We didn't expect the dolphin to be so surprising. The whole audience applauded.
The final show was the beautiful female trainers on the stage, dressed in mermaid costumes, and a few North Korean girls jumped into the water to bring us an elegant mermaid princess dance. They are suspended in the water from time to time on the bleachers of the crowd waved to greet, do the action unified standardized action, the beautiful scene triggered a burst of applause. From time to time, deep underwater through the underwater lens to the audience to the stands to show their graceful dance, beautiful dance in the water directly convinced me that this is a wonderful show program, art without borders, no matter where the people are a group of amazing talent.
On the way out of the show, I was still immersed in the wonderful performance just now, and Zhao, who was beside me, was also excited to share with her sister the wonderful program she saw here. In the back of the performance of the North Korean girls in fact their national swimming team is an athlete, usually have time to come over here to the Dolphinarium, to the public to bring elegant underwater performance. So that more locals can appreciate the charm of water dance.
After we came out of the Oceanarium, the time is already close to noon time, I and Zhao sisters to discuss, go over to the side not far from the roadside store to buy a box lunch to eat, to solve the lunch.
On the way there, we saw a lot of people converging on the square next to us, playing with their children on the entertainment equipment displayed here. Look at the little sister looked at the past excited eyes, let Xiao Zhao went to see asked, paid the ticket money, our party like three big children to play in the playground.
I didn't realize that something unforgettable had happened here.
Continued! I'll be back with more!