a little more interesting than i bargained for..

so- starting with the dumpling dinner: delicious but apparently the chinese dont care if their meat is fully cooked so that meal came and went quite quickly if you get my drift.. tasted good but gross.

on Sunday we woke up and headed to the terra-cotta warriors- they were discovered in march of 1974 by a farmer (WHO WE MET! SO COOL) who thought they were bad luck and tried to cover it up- but word spread and parts of the tomb was escavated. the warriors are part of emporor Qin's tomb- he was also the man responsible for the great wall- so he was obviously quite full of himself. they were built as a wish for the afterlife that he would have that many warriors with him- when they were completed he even had the workers buried with his tomb- ALIVE- so that way the secret would never get out. oops. Qin was the first emperor of China- he declared himself so- and started the tradition of having dynasties. his tomb took 700,000 people and 35 years to complete. the warriors have been partially escavated and reconstructed because they were mostly all destroyed. they are not being very well preserved and they havent been doing much work on them, they wont even let anyone else come to work on them, only the chinese- professor crowe thinks its because the Chinese are very supersticious and dont like to mess around with the ancestors or the dead. very cool.

after that we went to the wild goose pagoda- built in the tang dynasty. its a buddhist temple- very cool. we lit candles and incense and then prayed- it was very intense and awesome. you are supposed to go there and make a wish- if it comes true then you have to go back there one day. fine with me! we the climbed the 7 floor pagoda to see the awesome view from the top. there was a great garden and pavillions all around the area- the rocks had awesome, Green saying on them, such as "the plants have just begun to sprout, for you to walk on them would be a shame no doubt" very very cool.

also, my face swelling has gone majorly down, now my skin is just so dry from all of the pollution. aside from the pollution i think xian is a great place.

in other news: we had our flight from xian to chengdu today- after the flight we had to get onto one of those people movers to go to the baggage claim. apparently drivers here are a little crazy because out of all of the space on the entire tarmack this little car hit our bus and the bus stopped short sending everyone flying and the man behind me fell on top of me and i bruised my wrist, my face, my thigh real bad and my ribs are all sore- my professor freaked out so i had to go the the hospital which was traumatizing because everyone was speaking in chinese so i felt so helpless and alone and just wanted a damn ice pack for my face- everyone was like arguing cause no one wanted to take the blame and just pay for it and i was like AHHHHHHHHHHHH- so anyways- Dr Xiao (my chinese professor) and i got to the hospital, cut all the lines, got an xray for my leg and ribs- and now we're waiting for the results- dr. xiao and i got some noodles and now were at a tea house just waiting... i feel ok, just really shaken up and PISSED cause i had to miss the pandas :( im actually way sad about that- plus even if i do have a broken rib theres nothing to be done about it so whatever.

thats the news- hopefully tomorrow will be less eventful? or equally as eventful but in a different way...