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The plan for today was to sleep in, go to the city
wall, go to the Muslim part of Xi’an and then fly to Shanghai. After the
average breakfast in the buffet that advertised pancakes as waffles and century
egg slices, Deniz and I got to the lobby on time (surprise surprise). That’s
the first time that’s happened on this trip. Go us👏.
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We walked up a flight of 75 stairs that nobody over the
age of 60 should attempt to walk up, and finally got to the bikes. Everyone
went on the single person bikes, but Brianna and I being the super quirky and
unique people we were, decided to go on a tandem bike.
Tally of bike ride:
Broken bones: 0
Deaths: 0 (good effort from us)
People nearly hit: you don’t want to know
Photos taken with random old Chinese men: 7
Highlight of the wall was making it further than anyone
else and disobeying the signs saying we couldn’t ride down the ramps. (We did
that really fast). Obviously, this trip to the famous city wall of Xi’an
wouldn’t be complete without our group doing the Nutbush and having everyone
take videos of us doing it.
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Leaving the restaurant included running out of the
toilets after realising they don’t flush and the doors don’t lock after making
eye contact with the old lady in the bathroom trying to peacefully take a pee.
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When we arrived and my oh-so lovely-friend Brianna
decided to wake me up from my “nap time” we had arrived at the calligraphy
lesson with the man who said everything I tried to write was “a mess”.
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Most of the stores were food or traditional Chinese
hair jewellery shops. The lottery was won by Alannah and Lauren, while Deniz,
Brianna, Molly and Daksh bought head massagers. While walking back, Daksh,
Deniz, Brianna and myself decided to get some more stale fruit loop nitrogen puffs
and the rolled ice cream.
We ate the puffs while waiting for the ice cream, and
much to our horror, the shop keeper took the cardboard bowl they were served in
and refilled it with puffs and put it back on the shelf. We all tried NOT to
think about that as we ate the ice cream from the bowl with the suspicious
stains on it.
After the markets, we headed to the airport for our
flight. We ate dinner at a restaurant close to the airport. All of us
collectively agreed that we were just craving some western food and did not
want to eat anymore rice or dumplings.
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Today was really good and we are all really looking
forward to looking around and shopping in Shanghai tomorrow.
Lucy Slater
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