A Day Containing surgery

Our day started out fairly normally. WE woke up, me and by day were ushered out the door to get some money, then we were wheeled off to our physical test, whoile my mom and dad took about six different tests before we finally were allowed to leave, by then we had wasted our whole morning. We quickly came back to our apartment and met with some of the professors, before quickly going out to search for a restaurant with pictures and good prices. We found a crowded place that had a few pictures with we pointed and grunted at, and they got the message, we were the stupid americans who could not even speak chinese. Let alone read it! Then we ate food, one of which was too spicy, another that was too salty, and a nother that was perfect. WE left and went home to have a short coffe break, our coffee break lasted two hours. Then we went to the park. It was partly like a fair as well with super UNsafe ride, such as a few roller coasters that plunged strait down. Of course we were followed by whispers in chinese of, She is so cute to JUlia, just like a doll! And to me, so beautiful! Then of course they asked us to buy something from them. IN te end we were not allowed on the budgy jumping because we would not have any control at all, or that was what my mom said. So instead we went on a bouncy ride and a log ride and a boring pedaling ride. It was pretty fun, butnext comes the interest part, the operation and fifth-day-of-chinese-new-year-celebrations. Which meant a haze of fireworks being thown under you feet, and a haze of smoke that surronded everything. Oh and I forgot we had a fabulous dinner that was better then lunch and three times as cheap. But back to the chinese new year celebrations. It was more exciting then the fourth of July celebrations because these were constant, during the chinese new year[ which lasted for a month, no one was going to give you time to think!] My parents thought they worked with the death cats, the cats that meowed the whole night in an annoying fashion, they took shifts, there were three of them, but either way the chinese firecrackers arenot pleasant to look at, instead of letting out a beautiful display of colors they are just loud and every person in Xian seemed to set off three of them, the celebrations last the night, each person takes there turn to set off fireworks. The other inportant thing was the surgery, julia had stables in here head and now it was time to take them out and we had to do it ourselves. We already at two out, done in a haze of shouting and screaming, but i was not allowed to watch, now this time i wqas allowed to watch, only for the blog food, so that i would type it all out. This was harder to do, it took about at least thirty minutes, Julia screaming each time someone moved and my parents turning away, and me watching open mouthed for a while until i decided that looking at fire crackedrs go off was a little more interesting. Father made each cut slowly and meticulously slowing torturing Julai, even though it was not on purpose, either way it ended in a fit of screams and crying and tears and a bowl of burnt popcorn seasoned with salt we had stolen from mcdonalds. ANd now at eight o clock i am still hoping that they will stop the fireworks, so someone can get some rest.
Hana