I woke up early and painted a sketch of the courtyard in Ubul's home. I spent a couple of hours building it up as Ubul and his mother walked passed, checking in on my progress and working on breakfast. I could not really communicate my gratitude to Ubul's mother for her hospitality in words, but it really made me feel good to present her with the sketch as a gift once it was finished. The neighborhoods around there are very nice. They are similar to small town neighborhoods in Pakistan. Being in Xinjiang province is like being in a different country from China entirely. After cleaning up, we walked outside. A neighbor invited us in to eat some nan, and piles of watermelon and cantelope. We spoke for a while, then took off to Ubul's family restaurant. Later in the evening we walked around town, sampled some different kinds of food, went to the river, then went to the market square to look around and eat some food in the open market. After all that walking we head back for some sleep.
