After biking the city wall yesterday we had new awareness of the layout of old city that we have been studying. We visited the Bell Tower and learned how important it was that the emperor controlled clock time as well as the calendar. Bells rang at the morning to open the city and drums sounded warning closing of the city walls.
I am excited about all I have learned about religion and goods that traveled on what was later called the Silk road. Xi'an was the starting point and I have lots of pictures to sort through illustrating the spread of ideas as well as goods. Today we visited a Chinese mosque. It was a real mixture of cultures. We then shopped in the Muslim market and had a traditional Chinese Muslim dinner. I was disappointed that we didn't have anything with eggplant as I have found I really like it. The dinner was really good and it was fun to again try some new foods.
After dinner our whole group went to karaoke. It is so much fun and something that our leader really enjoys. Chinese karaoke is even better than Japanese and unlike anything we have in the US. Tomorrow is Kevin's last day so it was a great send-off for him.
It was fun to shop and I found some perfect writing supplies to use in the classroom. I am quite good at bargaining in the market and enjoy the back-and-forth of working a good deal. I hope Tim likes my Chinese tomb sleeve dancer as much as I do : )
We have a side trip that will be overnight on Saturday so we have to pack up our goods and take a small pack with us. It is supposed to prepare us for packing to go home. I'm hoping to make it without any over charge so have to plan what goes where carefully.
I'm loving China, but missing my peeps - see you all soon.
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