more china

hey again, more china trip update coming at you.

its monday, the 21st and i'm typing this post as it rains, again, for the millionth time. rain is cool but it gets a little old after a while. anyway, back to china. yesterday the whole group was handed out to chinese teenagers to experience Xi An from a teenagers perspective. at 8 ish(am) we headed out to explore the unknown. my host and i ended up hanging out with another 2 hosts and their american buddies. that made it a lot easier to communicate especially since one of the american spoke chinese fluently. we pretty much just went clothes, jewelry, and knicknack shop in addition to being offered food every other hour. and trust me this can get just a little annoying after a while; especially if shopping isn't your thing and you don't know how to say so in chinese. so the whole day goes by like that, we walk,take taxis,ride buses, and /or ride this carraige attached to a motorcycle thing(very fun if i might add) to all the places and then we get back to the dorms and crash(sleep). the night before that (the 19th) we met other chinese teeenages who were staying on campus for an english camp. i ended up being invited to take part in one of their night classes. it was the english interview class and was taught (of course and to my relief) in english. the chinese students i sat with were extremely friendly. their english was impeccable and the whole experience that night was something i will always remember.
that's all for now,
zai jian,
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