Xian's army of Terracotta Warriors

Okeday, the main highlight of the past few days has been a relatively solo trip of us going to xian by ouselves. So to get there and back we caught an overnight train, 11 hours each way, so it was an epic trip, fortunately we had beds so it was ok but still on the way there there seemed to be some compulsion of the train drivers to blow their horns every 5 minites as like a greeting to each other or something -.- it was anoying. but yea otherwise the train trip was fairly ok, (lots of fun when u do it with friends tho and highly recomended if traveling around with friends).

In Xian itself the first day we visited the terracotta warriors, which while they were impressive, it was hard to see some of them and the army part was mostly buried and still in pits which made it kind of anoying to get good photos. Still it was really interesting to see them, further they are impossibly hard to dig up because they have to use brushes to get the dirt of them so that they dont break anything so its a LOOOONG process. also on top of all that some genious general back in like 1500 BC or something decided to loot the place and break all the soldiers so they have had to be put back together on top of them being dug out. so yea its taking a long time. Still very kul to see them, and the building that they have been housed in (well the warehouse/building things have been built around the pits) but they are really funky, like modern architecture with the typical old school chinese twist with the roofs and stuff, kul stuff.

Also while in Xian on the second day we went to see the Bell tower and Drum tower they were cool, with the said bell and drums in each tower, and there were lots of displays and a mini concert that involved drums and bells (oviously) and yea kul places in generl. Then we went down to the muslim quarter of xian, it was a really interesting part of town where there were lots of interesting stalls and like side street food. Some of it looked a bit seedy but overall it was a great place to just walk around and see some of the weird things that were around. Some side streets had buchers with like multiple pigs just hanging, someone was walking wat looked like his pet goat around, alot of stores were selling birds...like yea randomly caged birds, was fairly odd.

For the most part food was fairly standard stuff but i did brave one random sweet thing from a stall in the streets was a rice pudding like thing with a sweet sause of some form spread on one side and then nuts and suggar were spread over it, then it was speared on a couple of satey sticks for portability. Overall it was tasty and didnt kill me which was good =D

UMMMMM yea thats bout it for that trip which has been most of the past few days...and yea
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one more food for thought question that came up in discussion over this trip which i have forgotten to post: how can you know when God is telling you to do something and how can you know when it is you own desire or ambition, and how do u know to tell the two appart.
that was fairly badly phraised to in essence how can some of the major actions in life that some people account to God calling them to do something, how do u know when it is God's calling or your own want for God to call you in that direction?
still no concrete answer on that one, probobly because God speaks to all of us in differant ways
but there you go
=D
till next time