My last week in China and this week is packed with traveling and visiting tourist sites.  First stop we traveled to Xian.  Xian was a gorgeous place but we only got to stay for one night which was really a bummer.  This town had so many shops and was so huge it was a place you wanted to stay for a while in just site seeing.  In Xian we rode bikes around the Xian wall.  This was so much fun riding bikes on a place with so much history, but I might add that just a couple days prior to this my group and I were all stuck in a Chinese hospital with food poisoning so we weren’t feeling quite in top shape just yet.  Xian was amazing, while I was there I learned that Xian use to be the capital of China before Beijing was.  I was also shocked to see that Xian’s pollution was much worse than Beijing’s.  It could be the middle of the day and the sky was grey as if a storm just rolled  it was so polluted.  This week we also traveled to Beijing where I enjoyed myself so much.  Unfortunately one site I was really looking forward to seeing was shut down because of a festival rehearsal.  I wanted to see Tinamen square but it was closed till September.  But that didn’t stop the fun, we traveled to so many places along with the great wall of China.  The great wall of China was much harder than I imagined.  The steps were uneven so sometimes it would be a short step or a super steep one.  Another shock I had on the Great wall of China was the steep ramps! I always imagined this place as just a ton of stairs, I never expected ramps.  These weren’t too bad, but were really difficult when walking back.  In addition to this, we had a thunder storm hit us while on the Great Wall of China to add to our struggle!  Beijing’s left its mark on me and will always be an amazing place to remember.  While on the Wall our cable cart back down was shut off because of the weather, so we had to walk our selves back into town in this weather! It was a little stressful at first, cause we weren’t sure if we were walking the correct way.  But a classmate and I found a group of Chinese people around our age who spoke English.  Thank goodness!  They were so much fun to hang around and guided us our way back down.  We had such fun conversations with them about our different cultures and languages.  I was happy we were able to make friends out there a get closer to them  Its gonna be so hard leaving.  But my last week in china was a success and has left amazing memories in my heart.