Skinny Jeans--to wear or not to wear?

What we have done so far here in China has been fun and a great experience. The first day we went to the Great Wall of China, which was much harder to climb than I expected because I didn’t think the steps would be so difficult—sometimes they were huge, normal, or tiny. I had a lot of fun climbing it, and I finally became a “man” according to Chairman Ma’s words. Something I learned was that the Great Wall was built to stop an invasion from Mongolia. I also learned to never wear any kind of skinny jeans to climb.

The second day we went to visit the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City. The Temple of Heaven was an interesting place to visit because of its history, and because of the activities that occur in the parks around it. The Temple of Heaven wasbuilt to sacrifice people to give to the gods. The activities that occur in the parks are Chinese dancing and a game where you pass an object with feathers on it using your feet to another person. The Forbidden City was also interesting because it has a lot of Chinese history such as the Garden, and all the different buildings with different thrones for different purposes.

Today we went to visit the Summer Palace, which had a lot of interesting stuff. The things that the Summer Palace had were extremely amazing. One of the most amazing things was the gigantic manmade lake in front of the palace. Another amazing thing was how huge the entire palace was, and the beautiful giant garden. 

The other thing we went to visit was the Lama Temple, which had the most amazing statures of Buddhas that I have ever seen. The Lama Temple had five different temples that all have statues of different buddhas. The most amazing of all the statues was the one in the last Temple because it was gigantic compared to the rest of the big statures, and also because of its beauty. The last reason why it was so amazing was because it only took 6 years to be constructed.

So far I’m really enjoying being here because of China’s history, art, food, music, and its people.

Jose Frias