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Adventures in a Chinese train
It was our first week in China. After spending 4 days in Beijing me and my friend and I were planning to head to Xi'an, to visit the Terracotta Warriors. While in Beijing, I met my old friend Sammy. We used to share an apartment in Dublin and it was great to see her again. She helped us to buy our train tickets to Xi'an. She told us that we would have to pay an additional fee and change to a different bed. as for different For various reasons there were not available tickets for the same bed for the whole trip. It sounded a bit weird but we trusted her and she even wrote a short explanation of the situation in Chinese in on a piece of paper so that we could show it to the train supervisor.
We got to the train and went to our assigned beds. It was going to be a long trip. 10 hours! After 3 hours of sleeping, the supervisor came to wake us up.
We showed him the note with the explanation in Chinese and he started to speak really loud and telling told us something that sounded like NO. He couldn't speak a word of English and we couldn't speak a word of Chinese. After half an hour trying to understand each other he sent us to the other end of the train.
I opened the door to get to into the wagon next car and what I saw was a bit shocking. The train was extremely crowded, people were eating, screaming, and watching movies. Children were running around. There was no space at all for bags. There was no door in the toilet and the smell was awful. Also, people were allowed to smoke.
We tried to find a seat knowing that it was going to be a long night...We were a bit nervous as everybody was staring at us. There were no tourists what so ever whatsoever in that part of the train. The worst part was that we didn't have a seat number assigned, so we had to change seats all the time as new people was were coming into the train and already had their seats reserved.
Eventually, people turned out to be very helpful with to us. They tried to move around so that me and my friend and I could sit together. After midnight more or less, not many people was were boarding the train so we could finally sit and try to sleep. People tried to speak English with us even if it was just one or two words. They were curious about where we were going.
It was a long night indeed but a very interesting experience. If I look back I'm glad we ended up in that train!0 votedApril 23, 20152The big jump
I've been learning English for ten years. At the begining, I improved a lot, I felt how to as if I made a lot of progress. Currently, it's more difficult, but I encourage myself by making new mates on Italki. The English is a global language, it lets you expand your limits and take make contact with people all around the world.
0 votedApril 23, 20151Bernal, Querétaro....you meet? Have you been there?
When I.m in the photo to perfil? Where I am at in the photo?
Well,i need to say that in México are vacations are during of saint holy week, so my friends and me I went to climb the "Peña de Bernal" in the state of Querétaro. My mom's family lives in this state live my family to part to my mom so I can went go here and stay to sleep spend the night if we are too late to go back to México City. The time between México City and Bernal is 2 or 3 hours, depending on how fast you drive. of how drived, My friend Octavio drives like how the Fast and Fourios the Furious so we make made it in 2 hours!!!
This is a type to of mountain, well the name cientific scientific name is "monolito" "monolith." and You can to climb it and the time for up to the top is 1 hour aprox. The view is amazing, and you can see all of the village. Here all the people are friendly and the food is very very good. If you come to Bernal, you can eat a "gorditas" this is a snow bread of corn with sauce between inside. The people say that if you don´t eat a gordita after coming the down of the Peña is how if you don´t haven't come to Bernal!!!
Come on to BernaL, Querétaro!!0 votedApril 23, 20151Working on my blog
Now I have two blogs. One of them is just a list of all the movies I watch on in the theater or at home. I just write two or three remarkable things I have found when watching them, so it doesn't take me many much time.
The other one is my personal project. I write twice a week: on Tursdays Thursdays, I publish a short story; and on Fridays I publish a review of a book I have read. Sometimes, if I have the opportunity to go to any an interesting event about literature, I write about it. But in my city that doesn't take place often. I would love to be able to assist attend to more writters' conferences, but I would have to move to Madrid or Barcelona for that.0 votedApril 22, 20155My Perfect holidays: Going to Barbados
Barbados is an island that is situated between the Caribeen Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
At On the west side of the island we have the wonderfull, quiet, warm and clear Caribeen Caribbean Sea, whit with its big beaches with and white sand.
In On the east side, the Atlantic Ocean hits hardly the coast hard. in its most is plenty of It is mostly cliffs, and the water is dark blue.
Beacause of the deep caves that the island has, it is a perfect place hide to the for pirates to hide.
In Barbados the national sport is the cricket.
It Barbados is part of the Bermuda´s Triangle where some boats and planes have disappeared.
Would you be so kind to correct this please.?
Thanks in advance.0 votedApril 22, 20151
