Tongli Water Town (by Jacob)

Last week we went to a river town, built in 1420, called Tongli. Tongli is right outside the city of Shanghai. The only way to get there is about an hour long train ride from Shanghai to Yongshaw then a bus to Tongli . The train ride there was really strange because it was really crowded. When we were trying to find our seats, there was this lady that was supposed to sit next to my mom, and her stuff was on my mom’s seat and when my mom asked her to move her stuff, she refused to move it. Then later on the train this guy walked by us and he wanted this lady’s food and they were yelling at eachother then he finally walked away. The train experience was strange, but was glad I had the experience.

In Tongli there is this small canal that runs through the town.  Tongli is famous for there bridges over the canals. There were two different types of bridges, one was more modern than the other. At first, I thought the canal was for drinking water, but  I realized the people who live there wash their clothes and their pots and pans off in it, so they don’t want to drink dirty water. One thing I found interesting was that there were temples all through out the city. When we were leaving we tasted the town's specialty called green dumplings. I did not like the dumplings, I thought the dumplings tasted like balls of dough. On the way home we took a different train instead of the local train, I was relieved.