Tuesday, November 17, 2009

People, places and things

Foreals, I'm terrible at updating this blog. I apologize. I know many of you are anxiously waiting for updates on my life in China via this blog. Haha, right.

Anyhoo.

It has been quite busy lately.... probably? It feels like it's been busy. I can't really remember what I've been doing since I last posted on Halloween. Fail. It snowed again in Beijing; it doesn't really count though because it was man-made. In fact the first time it snowed, it was also man-made. Yep, that's right. The Beijing government is controlling the weather. Isn't that ridiculous?! They shot up silver nitrate into the clouds to make it snow. It's terrible because 40 people died due to the snow, either because of the cold or because of car accidents. It doesn't snow much in Beijing, and the snow that we got on those two days is equivalent to all the snow that Beijing's had in the past five years. Soo... the government needs to stop meddling with nature. If this happened in America, Capitol Hill would be up to its neck in lawsuits. Fo'sho.

In other news, I'm going to Xi'an (西安) this weekend! I am pretty excited!! I'm traveling without any IES guidance; it'll just be me and a few friends. We're leaving tomorrow night on an overnight train to Xi'an and will get in around 6AM (I'm assuming?). I might bring my laptop with me, so if there is a free moment, I will try to blog about my trip. If anything, I will be twittering about it, harhar.

For those of you who have never heard of Xi'an, the city is home to the Terra Cotta Army.

Yeah, that's right. I'm going to see these bad boys over the weekend, among other things :)

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