Well I’ve arrived in Xi’an a couple of days ago, and have been settling in here. We’re staying in hotel type rooms at a university, and while the university is not the newest or most up kept, it has been a nice stay so far. Meals here (in the canteen) are even more inexpensive than in Xiamen. This part of the semester is our ‘history module’, which consists of two weeks of straight history. On Monday we had a quiz over sixty pages of our history text, then a two lecture from a Chinese professor (she studied in the states and speaks great English), then a thirty minute presentation from a student in our group. We’re coving Chinese history from around 1600BC to present day, which is quite a bit of events and people, but I have been surprised how interesting it all is.
We’re located about a twenty minute bus ride from the actual city of Xi’an which is surrounded by an extremely impressive wall. The wall looks to be at least a hundred feet high and probably forty wide. The walk would probably take two or three hours to walk around the entire way. The city inside the wall is really nice and has a lot of places to shop for stuff. It also has more upscale places, such as Starbucks, and really nice parks with fake trees and grass. We mostly spent our time looking around the Muslim quarters, which is an area of town that has a lot of vendors and street food.
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