Well now that we’ve gotten used to eating this food, sleeping on these tables, and dressing for the weather, we are still nowhere near finding out how the Chinese live. So far being in Xian has been everything we thought it would be...the food is weird, the heat is unbelievable, the smells are interesting and most of all the drivers are CRAZY. Today along with yesterday we played chicken several times and cheated death at least a few times while sitting in our tour bus. We first started by going to the museum. I’d try to tell you what it was all about but honestly all i can remember is that there are Terra Cotta warriors everywhere. later on we visited the Jade and silk factories. Some of us bought scarves and bracelets , they were so nice that Karalyn will now have enough scarves to wear a different colour everyday of the week. While at the silk factory we learned that the price of silk carpets go by not only how many but how small the knots on the carpets are. The smaller the number the longer it takes to make, some even up to two years. After all that we ended up visiting the city wall of Xian. Some might have been tired from seeing the sites but Jen, Erika, Karla and myself managed to take center stage and let the others know how talented we are. Together we created a dance along with vocals that attracted a crowd of people along the wall. As a finale, our team had created a human pyramid in which the decent was not as graceful as the construction. So now that we have already had dinner and we have arrived at what seems to be a run down and packed train station, we can only hope that the train will be along soon and that it will be more comforting than what we can see.
Donna Blaszak
Argyle Secondary
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