Clean air and in need of a massage!

I just got back from the Ming Tombs--but I shall get to that later on a bit. This week has passed by fairly quickly due to stamp cutting and excursions. Friday after the weekly exam, I stayed a bit after class to make-up quizzes I missed during the time I was sick. Afterwords, we all went to Silk Street because we all needed to get stuff.. this shopping adventure only reaffirms my dis-like for shopping! I got some stuff for people but it was not fun... After that it was Saturday and we had excursion time to see acrobats! It was really cool, but the weather was cruel--it decided to pour like dogs! The highways were flooding a bit so it took us a while to reach the theater but we made it. We got our seats which was on the 3rd row which was on the left side of the theater but really close to the stage.. The show was awesome! Although I have a sneaky suspicion that some of the girls were like 7 or so of age..It was really interesting to see acrobats doing their stunts...Afterwords we grabbed dinner and I uploaded pictures to Facebook :D





So today is Sunday and my day started really early because a few friends decided to meet up at 930am to head out to the Ming Tombs because it was near the Great Wall so it takes a while to get there by public transportation. We reached the place with not that much a hassle and went on to first see the Sacred Way. The area was really breezy and clear because we weren't in the city so ha--take that pollution! We took goofy pictures and then took a bus to the first open Ming Tomb. I'm so happy we have student IDs because if not it would have been realllly expensive! Our tutor/MHC's language Fellow for 09-10 had a fake student ID which we found hilarious. You would think you'd get a fake to be older, and not younger but I guess in China it's the other way around lol After we toured around the first tomb we headed for the second one which wasn't as long because that tomb wasn't open for the public. After walking around for most of the day we went back to our dorm. We took the most expensive bus I've ever been on in China--it was 4 kuai! And we hit traffic which caused us to be on the road for 2hrs! I was playing frogger in the subway by speeding pass people! It was insane! Im sooo tired now...It's going to be a new week so .... sigh

P.S.--got sick again..got a runny nose and I keep sneezing... Just when I thought I was okay...

Sim Out.