Jakey Jake

Friday 21st May
This afternoon we arrived at xi’an at around 12pm. We shuffled ourselves to the taxi stand and got a cab to the victory hotel. we had a couple of hours to have a shower and get some food at the highfly pizza place around the corner, apparently they served delicious food, which i later found out for certain they did. after the 2pm meeting which started closer to 2.30 i left the group to wander around the town on my own. I think they find it a bit strange at times that i do my ownt thing, but the reality is that while they are a nice bunch i dont really connect with anyone all that well and i certainly like my own company at times. so anyway i toddled off to the bell tower and the drum tower. around the city there is an old city wall, around 12-14m high and it stretches around 13.7km. Its quite a nice little sity at 5.6million people, though its getting very hard to tell the difference between any of the citys, although you can certainly notice theres been more spent on them the further east you move. This city had all you shopping malls and markets and stuff.. the people still stare at you like your a lepper until they are about 15m past you and they yell out hello its quite funny. Anyway the teracotta warriors are tomorrow…. yes i know i said that yesterday but this time its for real. I had dinner around the corner at highflys and they were out of tables so they told me to sit next to some americans, whom they didnt ask if they minded anyway they were very nice, chris and his mother from kansas. Chris had come to china 3 years ago, didnt know a bit of the language, he got a job as a waiter in dali and he can now speak very fluent chinese, he seemed prettyy kewl and we had both stayed in chungking mansions in Hong Kong so we had something to laugh about.