Got up at 7, packed my bag and left it at the hostile front desk top pick up.
Walked south, out through the south city gate and continued down. Walked to the pagoda that we’d seen signs for yesterday, but it wasn’t open for tourism yet, and the guard told me to come back later, even though the locals were walking in to do their morning exercises.
Continued walking down, saw an art museum, which also opened later so kept walking, 7-9 don’t seem like a particularly active time in the city.
had some breakfast fairly far south, and stopped in a mcdonalds for a cup of coffee before heading back. Stopped in at the museum since it’s hours claimed it would be open, but there was nobody there, so I went back to the pagoda. Walked around there for 45 minutes or so, saw the pagoda and the museum attached to it, which was essentially the same as all the other cultural attractions in the area.
Headed back south to the market I’d been to yesterday, and picked up a cheap small backpack to carry stuff back in. Also got a newspaper, since one of my homework assignments for friday is to explain a news article from a xiAn newspaper.
caught a bus back to the hotel, and still had 20 minutes, so walked north to the Muslim area one last time and got some preserved fruit (honeydew and mango, I believe) and also a really good chicken sandwich.
Came back to the hotel, got on the bus, waited a little bit for those not on time to arrive. And we headed off to the airport.
The plane was delayed a couple hours due to ‘airway congestion’, but didn’t have any problems. The airport had free wifi and power, which was nice.
Got into beijing about 6-ish (spent the plane ride writing my core homework for thursday) and taxi-ed back to the college.
Went out for a quick cafeteria dinner after unpacking, and then came back to spend the evening learning the Chinese characters for tomorrow.
A short week this time, but a lot to pack into it.