Xi'an and the flying Dutch American
I am leaving Xi'an this evening after three days of sightseeing. I heas to Yin Chuan to see James my wonderful brother and hang out with him. I don't know how long I will be there or where I go after that but I am excited to finally reach that destination. I have seen a lot of Chinese landmarks here including the Terracotta Soldiers, Small and Large Goose Pagoda, a Neolithic Village, a pile of museums, and a hot springs site. Everything was pretty great but the soldiers definintly take the cake as the most impressive. With over 8,000 soldiers and every single soldier looking different then all the rest it was quite neat. I find I like Xi'an a lot more than Beijing but perhaps part of that is because of Ruby. She does not like Beijing at all or Beijing people so she was happy to leave and go to Xi'an.
I was quite tired the past few days. I think when you stay in one spot for three days or less it starts to wear on you after two weeks. Now I am a little ill so while Ruby eats lunch I decided to go to an internet cafe and write a few people. People still laugh at the way I hold chopsticks. It is relly starting to get annoying because I really do not appreciate being laughed at in my face.
If you were all wondering about strange foods I have eaten I suppose I could name a few. I had squid tentacles on a stick, a duck foot, some blood noodles and a lot of food that I don't know what they are, I just eat them. The other day we had hot pot with duck meat. I enjoy duck quite a bit and enjoyed the meal. I was really worried at one point when a hunk of meat floated to the top and had a black speck on it. I thought to myself.....Is that an eye????? Oh brother Noelle, relax!! So I ate a bunch more. At the end of the meal I realized it was the eye, in fact it was the entire HEAD. I had eaten the feet of the duck as a cold dish before hand and the rest of the duck (minus the quacker) in the hot pot. So, interesting?
I guess I might of glazed over something that happened in Beijing and I think it deserves a few words. When we started on our way to the train station we decided to walk to the bus stop and pick up the 744 bus. Well I got a lot of stars having such a huge pack on my back and tramping through Beijing. At the bus stop we quickly realized that bus did not run anymore at that time of night but when we looked up, BAM there was one pulling up to the curb and it was tiny and full. So now I have to get on a bus in hot weather with an aisle fit for the tiniest person with a huge pack, a backpack me and my wallet to pay for the busfare. I ended up swinging the bag around and hitting a couple of people and squeezing onto the edge of a seat with my pack at my feet and smallish backpack on my lap and a large Chinese man squeezed next to me. He was not very happy. Well after about 5 minutes and another stop (where numerous people had to try and leap over my bag) I realized we were on the wrong bus. Here we sit squeezed as tight as can be and sweating buckets on the wrong bus. I lean over to tell Ruby and we decide to get off at the next stop. At this point my backpack cover has slipped off and some items are hanging in the cover, while the cover is hanging onto the bag by a little piece of fabric. The guy sitting inside of me tries to get up so I stand up so he can move out of the way and he starts to talk to me in Chinese and motion toward the seat. It was then we wanted to get off the bus. Now most people had gotten off the bus who needed to and more people were stepping on. My seat partner was talking and somewhat pushing at me from the front of the bus. Another man was shoving me hard from the rear direction of the bus to get the seat the man had just vacated. Ruby was telling me to move and get off the bus and I was sweating more and more. I finally used my pack as a weapon. I heaved it up and started shoving toward the rear of the bus. I was mowing people down left and right, gripping on to two backpacks and a pack cover attempting to get off the bus before it left this stop. The doors closed and the bus pulled away while Ruby started to yell to stop the bus. I shoved some more people took a diving leap for the road and almost fell over. Once again the center of attention. An American with a huge pack flying off a moving bus in the night covered in sweat with another back pack trailing behind. Very bad. Well anyway we then grabbed a taxi ran through the trainstation and got on our train right away. Hopefully tonight we will have an easier time getting on the train.
I was quite tired the past few days. I think when you stay in one spot for three days or less it starts to wear on you after two weeks. Now I am a little ill so while Ruby eats lunch I decided to go to an internet cafe and write a few people. People still laugh at the way I hold chopsticks. It is relly starting to get annoying because I really do not appreciate being laughed at in my face.
If you were all wondering about strange foods I have eaten I suppose I could name a few. I had squid tentacles on a stick, a duck foot, some blood noodles and a lot of food that I don't know what they are, I just eat them. The other day we had hot pot with duck meat. I enjoy duck quite a bit and enjoyed the meal. I was really worried at one point when a hunk of meat floated to the top and had a black speck on it. I thought to myself.....Is that an eye????? Oh brother Noelle, relax!! So I ate a bunch more. At the end of the meal I realized it was the eye, in fact it was the entire HEAD. I had eaten the feet of the duck as a cold dish before hand and the rest of the duck (minus the quacker) in the hot pot. So, interesting?
I guess I might of glazed over something that happened in Beijing and I think it deserves a few words. When we started on our way to the train station we decided to walk to the bus stop and pick up the 744 bus. Well I got a lot of stars having such a huge pack on my back and tramping through Beijing. At the bus stop we quickly realized that bus did not run anymore at that time of night but when we looked up, BAM there was one pulling up to the curb and it was tiny and full. So now I have to get on a bus in hot weather with an aisle fit for the tiniest person with a huge pack, a backpack me and my wallet to pay for the busfare. I ended up swinging the bag around and hitting a couple of people and squeezing onto the edge of a seat with my pack at my feet and smallish backpack on my lap and a large Chinese man squeezed next to me. He was not very happy. Well after about 5 minutes and another stop (where numerous people had to try and leap over my bag) I realized we were on the wrong bus. Here we sit squeezed as tight as can be and sweating buckets on the wrong bus. I lean over to tell Ruby and we decide to get off at the next stop. At this point my backpack cover has slipped off and some items are hanging in the cover, while the cover is hanging onto the bag by a little piece of fabric. The guy sitting inside of me tries to get up so I stand up so he can move out of the way and he starts to talk to me in Chinese and motion toward the seat. It was then we wanted to get off the bus. Now most people had gotten off the bus who needed to and more people were stepping on. My seat partner was talking and somewhat pushing at me from the front of the bus. Another man was shoving me hard from the rear direction of the bus to get the seat the man had just vacated. Ruby was telling me to move and get off the bus and I was sweating more and more. I finally used my pack as a weapon. I heaved it up and started shoving toward the rear of the bus. I was mowing people down left and right, gripping on to two backpacks and a pack cover attempting to get off the bus before it left this stop. The doors closed and the bus pulled away while Ruby started to yell to stop the bus. I shoved some more people took a diving leap for the road and almost fell over. Once again the center of attention. An American with a huge pack flying off a moving bus in the night covered in sweat with another back pack trailing behind. Very bad. Well anyway we then grabbed a taxi ran through the trainstation and got on our train right away. Hopefully tonight we will have an easier time getting on the train.
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