Sorry!
Chinese Time: Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:15 pm
Sorry I haven’t written in a while. Tuesday night I fell asleep before I could write and last night I didn’t have Internet. Anyway, we’ve done a lot in those three days.
On Tuesday, we went to the Great Wall. It was so amazing. Afterwards we went to the jade museum. I never knew there were so many different kinds of jade. There’s dark green, light green, yellow, and jadeite (it’s white with green inside.) We were able to look at the pieces. Some of them were huge and extremely elaborate. Our family didn’t buy anything, but some of the others did.
On Wednesday, we headed to the Huntong. The Huntong is the “Old Beijing.” Most of them have been torn down and made into apartments of office buildings. While in the Huntong, we had lunch with a local family. I think it was my favorite so far. Then we also went to a local kite maker’s house. Here, he taught us how to make a kite and we got to decorate our own. Afterwards, we headed to the Temple of Heaven where we were going to fly our kites. Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed. Then we headed to the train station where we said goodbye to Nancy and hopped a train to Xian.
Today, we arrived in Xian at 8:30. After a brief breakfast at the hotel, we headed to the local history museum. There was a time line of all of the Chinese dynasties that included artifacts found from the time periods. It was extremely interesting. If you ever want to learn and study Chinese history Xian is the place to go. It was the capital city for most of China’s history and people have to be careful when they dig because of all of the artifacts. After the history museum, we were on our way to an art one. Here we were taught about the history of Chinese art and then the reasons for Chinese characters. After a long lecture, we sat down and did our own Chinese calligraphy. According to the teacher, I’m really good :D When we were through with that, we went on our way to a puppet theater where we got to see our first shadow-puppet theater performance. For the end of the night, we split up. Mom, Julie, Lia and I went to a dumpling dinner and show while the rest all went back to the hotel and swam. The show was cool but long. All of the dumplings were amazing as well.
Well it’s late here. I’m sorry it’s not long tonight, but I’m extremely tired. I’ll try to be more punctual in the future. Good night.
God Bless
~Kristen
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