A Long Ride, A new Idea, My first Day

A Long ride
After being stuck in CHicago for an extra day we were not in a good mood! And our modd did not increase as the day went on, while my mom took a nap we [me and my sister] stayed up watching what coujld be the last chinese we would see in english for a long time. WE forgot to take a nap and that put us in a bad mood. Later we visited friends and our journey was cut short because of us, we traveled back to our hotel and by the time we reached there it was already ten O'clock, we slept, waking at five hurried to the airport, where we stood in line for thirty seconds to change oour tickets from Beijing to Xian. THen we waited as our tickets were corrected for over two hours. Now we were hurrying we would have to skip breakfast so we could catch this flight, we had to make it this time! We reached our gate and were greeted by a stream of stares, already we were being stared at TOO much or not for julia! But toooooooooooooo much for me. While we stood in line my mom hruried to use the 70 dollars we had because the other flight had been canceled. Then we were ushered on to the plane, everyone acted as if we were in a big rush but as soon aws we got on they another we had a monor leak and we would be off the plane within moments. We waited three hours , they kept on telling us it was almost over then there would be aother leak and we were still stuck in Chicago, but finally we kicked off and headed for Beijing! I will not go inot much detail of the occurances in Beijing but i will tell you this, the two hours waiting to make sure we had secured a place on the flight to Xian was to of no avail, we did nt have a ticket and we had already missed our flight other flight. But this was a communist government and so we did not have to wait as long. Only an hour, before we were sent to someone else a nd in seconds we had the ticket, we were almost there! We reached XIan safely!
Hana

A New Idea

My new idea came to me the night we reached Xian and met up with my dad. I was writing down the problems that had occured with our travels and that was when i decided, I would not be writing a boring journey entry, instead i would make this into one big story! SO I am just telling you that to warn you and tell you that you do not have read all of the journal entries pasted here.
Hana

My First Day

My first day started out with me waking up at 3:00 in the morning. We were all up, we were all jet lagged, but we were also tired. I walked into our living room, where already my family was up, and we read my parents slept so more and typed and so on until it was light enough out to go for a ride to [wall mart that was fathomed to be right across the street from our apartment. As it turned out it was more than a few miles away, however we were tired at all there was too much to see to be tired. By the time we reached wall mart we were ready for an adventure,walking through pavement lined with garbage was not enough of an adventure for us! An adventure was certainly what we got! This wall mart had everything there was in any other wall mart, but it was chinese oriented and almost everything was also three time as cheap! I got sandles for a mere forty cents. ANd a fabulous chinese book for ten. ALthough there was a slight misunderstanding at the candy store where we thought it was two dollars for every candy, other then that we were amazed by the small prices! As it turned out it was two dollars for every five hundred grams, there were thirty grams per candy bar, you could get a lot of candy for two dollars. After we had completely explored the first floor we continued onward to the second floor where it was like, well the farmers market yet inside. Except of course the food was so much more UNIQUE. There were meat dumpling that had any meat you could imagine storedinside them, encluded their infamous recipe for dog. They also the fine slices of chicken toes and the feet [the bone, the actual toes] of the chicken. But they did have god pastries there were dishes that had hardened sesame seeds on the outside and were filled on the inside with rice and beans, there was miracoulous dumplings, only the vegtable and tofu that you could get three for a dollar. There was fruit, peeled and ready for you take with you and really speaking now to how familiar this is to the farmers market they even had the man or the family who sold Ostrich. THe egg, the fur and the meat, my mom was amazed find as she looked up, unsuspectingly and looked strait at the stuffed ostrich. We quickly fled. After that we continued back to our apartment with three hundred dollars worth of stuff that we had got for one dollars. After that we slept before continueing on to our next adventure, going top the park. I will ot go into detail but later when I am more wide awake I wil ltell you of the Animal Abuse center, and the go cart racing however now i will tell you that there was beautiful scenery! That there was a polluted lake that you could ride sail boats down, and that there was a swimming pool that had a ball that you could go inside of and walk on the top of the water, there was something of a forest, which we renamed the death valley, and there were rides that we did not go on now. After that we had a humble eatin g of three dishes none of which we were able to finish because they were all so big, and then tipped the waitress fifty cents, which did not accept it was just tooooooo much money, we got our fifty cents back, noone would take it. We then were stuffed and tired and wanted a short cut back to our apartment, instead we got the third adventure of the day. WE were down a dusty alley filled with garbage, you could hardly walk without hearing your shoes tunnel into the mud and trash, then we came across and open market, smells wafted in front of us, not that they were good smells, they were the smells of cooked meat, meat that we did not want to know whatnkind it was. There were people cuting pieces of meat over an open fire people walking by flames curling on there hair. We avoided that route. Instead we came apon more people selling things, varying from a man making home cooked bread to a person selling jelly beans to a woman selling a puppy. We hurried through we had had to much stimulation for the night, but we still got i n a laugh as we approached a man whos hair blendedninto his beard, he looked like the orangatang that had escaped from the zoo! Either was make an assumption that at seven thirty everyone quickly wen t to bed except for me relaying this important information.
Hana