Thanksgiving in Xian

Again, for the holidays we ended up in Xian. This time the holiday was Thanksgiving. While in Xian we always end up shopping, usually in the Muslim Quarter. On our previous trip we had discovered "North Face" fleece jackets and were planning on buying them. This is where I stubbled upon this calculator which warranted a photo. "JUST FOR CHEAP PRICE"!! I couldn't resist taking a photo.



This is all three of us and the shop owner wearing the "North Face" jackets. We also bought fake Burberry scarfs to complete the "fake" outfit. Fake or not they are warm and what we needed.

Dinner a la Pizza Hut. We had heard mixed reviews about Pizza Hut but gave it a shot. It was very good but not worth the price in my opinion. I'd rather eat the 3 Big Mac's I could have gotten for what I paid.

Us being the outgoing, fabulous and crazy Foreigners that we are, we got invited to KTV by some "English speaking" Chinese people we met at our bar. This is what followed.

They had tamporines

This portion I like to call "the morning after!"

And so ended another holiday weekend in Xian.

Being shown off!!

So since we are the coolest and only Foreign teachers in the area we were invited to teach a few classes at another school. By invited I mean told that we would be teaching at another school. Supposedly we are a hot commodity and there have been many requests for our attendance at other schools but this school was the best. The best meaning our Principal's son works as a government official in this schools district.

There was a map of the world so we took pictures pointing to Minnesota.

Pictures with kids.


Hanging out in the Principal's office

Our principal

Story time: So they took us out to lunch but we still had one class left to teach after lunch. Food was okay, some was weird like the 100 year old egg from Fear Factor that they served. I DON'T THINK SO!!!!! But some was really good. Of course, along with the food came the liquor. Since I am now know as the bijou drinking girl I got the distinct pleasure of doing shots of it with everyone. When I say everyone I mean everyone. The owner and the chef of the restaurant came and did shots with me. Needless to say the small amount of food I ate coupled with the massive quantity of bijou that I drank made me a drunk foreign teacher. Everyone loved it though. So after lunch we were walking back, to teach class, and we saw this bridge so what the hell lets go take pictures on it. Yeah, it was old, shaky, holes in the wood planks and went across the river. My drunk ass was way too excited about this. So they took pictures and Michelle, Mrs. Chen, Mr. Zheng, and myself made the long walk across the bridge.

Michelle was sober and therefore terrified while I was drunk and seeing how much I could shake the bridge. Dumb-ass!!

So after our adventure, we (and by we I mean Michelle) taught class while I erased things off the board and dropped the eraser about 20 times. Whether they noticed or not I have no idea and the incident was never mentioned again.

Halloween in Xian

So these are a little old. I forgot that I had these pictures on my camera. For Halloween we all went to Xian. We were amazed to see carved Jack-O-Lanterns. They were outside of a club, all with candles in them.

This is the bar we always go to in Xian. They know us and seems to like us or at least we spend enough there. They were all decorated for Halloween.

And yes, the scream mask has made it all the way to China. Ridiculous!!

Bus Ride from Yangxian to Xian

Here are some pictures from the 4 hour bus ride I have to take to get to Xian on the Expressway. I finally managed to stay awake and take some pictures. I like to sleep on the bus!!







We travel across this river that wiggles through the mountains. You can actually tell when you get to the highest part of the mountains cause the direction of the current changes.

We go through many tunnels cut throught the mountains. Some are 1000km and longer.