Meaning Hostel Xi'an

... old. The terra cotta army is over two thosand years old. The dragon king’s tume is the biggest tume in the world!! He was berred (buried) in the terra cotta army. Some people thoght that he would be reborn in there except he wasn’t.

Charlie’s journal:

The terracotta soldiers were cool. They each had a different face and were very colorfull at first but lost all their color in one week and all of them were ...

... line, enduring an abundance of pushing and shoving and finally got my ticket for the following evening.

On the bus back to my hostel I stood next to a young teenaged girl holding a balloon. There was a Chinese character on it and I asked her what it said. She laughed and said it was just the name of a company and was a promotional thing they gave her. Just before we reached my stop she handed me the balloon. It was so sweet. It seemed that every time I got fed up ...

... relaxing in the hotel room watching TV and talking. We headed across to what I call The Local a few times for a big meal and a few Jim Beams. The local is actually the Youth Hostel across the road. I've made quite a few friends there so it is good to catch up for a beer or two every now and then.

As for the near future.

One of my family's best friends arrived ...

... stopping at another bike repairman that james knew. We pointed out the newly discovered problems, and the bad brakes that I had forgotten about until I tried to use them. I am not a gearhead, and I don't know what he did. However 45 minutes and 10 rmb ($150) later, the bike was a world better. We finally headed off, although now it was 1 pm and significantly later than we had hoped it would be when we headed out. We got through the city in about an hour or more and got to the ...

... for it is even cuter! Today they tied it to a post with string around its neck. There feeding it live fish and bottle feeding it milk. Last night they asked me and giles if we would let little hot pot sleep in our room, so we did. It was under the duvet all night and neither off us got much sleep cause we were scared of killing it!... So we came all the way to china to write a travelpod about a kitten sleeping in our room!

... that I verified that the soldiers' life-lines (on their hands) were actually present and unique. Each of these glassed off displays was of a soldier of differing rank and our guide explained how you could tell them apart. The shoes they wore were one important sign; the higher ranking an officer was, the higher the toes of his shoes pointed. A high ranking officer was also most likely to have the roundest fingernails, as this was regarded as a sign of ...

... colors and sing head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Nor can I usually get a grammatically correct sentence. Girls moan when it is their turn to stand up and throw a dart/shoot a basket ball, whatever. Guys will disassemble their ink pens when sitting too long. Thankfully, I have more younger kids classes than older kids (12-15). I only have three of the older kids, and the rest is all fun and games-almost literally. After class today, and ...

... 80 o 90 grados en los que uno colgaba de la cadena y trepaba a estilo libre. A veces estos tramos duraban sus 300 metros y uno tenia que pasar entre piedras. A los 6 km tuvimos que subir por una ladera colgados de cadenas (a la distancia parecia una serpiente de fuego que subia la montania) por un camino angosto que a los lados solo se veia negro. El camino no parecia terminar y ...

... or at least we thought). Wen Hao and her friend joined us as partial translators (they could not really help much, her friend was not too bad at English though, most of them just lack confidence to say things that probably sond really stupid to them, though they love their Hello's! more than anything in the world is seems). The minibus had seats lined with iron bars underneath so the two hour ride was not as comfortable as one would think. We got out at a place called Song ...

We arrived in Xi'an overnight from Beijing on Sunday morning, and hit our first bit of rain, which I must say was quite a relief after the aridness of Beijing. Thankfully though, it didn't last past the morning, and by the time we'd gotten to our hostel, freshened up and were back on the streets, the sun was shining. Xi'an is a lovely city, small, and quite modern. One of the first things that strikes you about it is that there must be a bit of money around ...