We just got off the airplane, and are no on the bus, so that
is why my writing is sloppy.
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Right now we are in front of a school Kung Fu training
ground. There are two schools that these boys are from, with a total of 30,000
students. There are some students now that are running around in a circle which
is shown as a darker patch than the cement. I found out by looking at the other
people that the track is made by other people throwing buckets of water into a
circle. This I think is very cool. The people in front of us are doing spear
exercises, but most of them are running. There are also bags of sand hung up on
polls that I bet are for punching. Now there are some people doing stretches. I
guess they are split into groups and then they rotate in different stations. I
see now that only a few people are using the water-made track. There are now people
shouting some type of lesson to their teacher. There are some guys that are
doing hopping on one leg then jumping over other guys, other the leg though so
it is safer. That is all I can see them doing now.
The mountains here are beautiful. They are really tall, and
there are lots of trees all over the place. The sad thing is that we have to
climb up one tomorrow; this will take 4.5 hours round trip.
There are no girls here at all, but they might be doing
other stuff. The spears make a sort of rattling noise when they are moved
There are lots of purple flowers here too. I don’t know what
they are, but they are sure petty. They are on trees. Madelyn (my friend) said
we have to write a journal for Chinese too, so I will put that at the back of the
book.
There are so many boys here, and I wonder what they hope to
get out of all of this. Like their jobs and stuff. How will these 30,000 boys
get good jobs? They do not have time, at least I don’t think they do, to learn
any things such science, math, or any of that stuff.
Now there are people doing cartwheels, like 10-20 in a row.
And there are some during the leg stretching on other people’s back thing.
There are also push-up-kick things. I just heard that they are doing a show in
about 5-10 minutes.
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The performance was really good, the whip thing especially,
it sounded like thunder! The fake sword thing wasn’t as loud as I would have
hoped, but I guess that it might be because it was outside.
We went through a temple, which was really cool. It helped
that I was in the Chinese group and the monk told us the correct history of the
things there. I also found out that the purple flower is called zi jing hua.
Right now we are waiting to go to the hotel.
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I just lifted some weights. One of them was 40公斤for
sure, and the other one felt heavier. 40公斤is, I think, 88 pounds. We are on a
bus going to the hotel.
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We are now in the hotel room. It is more like a house with
numbered rooms in them. We are in house #29, room 11. Just as I was getting my
stuff on my bed and I saw a big spider. I was going to try and squash it, but
then it wouldn’t squash, so I put it on my clipboard ad threw it out the door.
Madelyn was scared and Hanako (my other friend) was saying how she liked
spiders.
Just now we heard music, and Madelyn sat up on the bed to
get her phone, but then she fell over off the bed and hit her head. Me and
Hanako were laughing really hard, but since Madelyn was talking to her mom we
tried to hold it in. So when she got off the phone we were laughing our heads
off.
We are now waiting for Mrs. Li to go with us to buy stuff
from the store.
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