Mixed feelings October 11th, 2009
Ok, been a bit of a mixed day today! I’m not feeling too good today, I can’t wait to get out of our hostel, our room is not very clean it has Mosquitos everywhere! Even dead ones squashed on the Walls! I’m covered in either mosquito bites or I’ve been bitten by bed bugs! I’ve been wearing the same pair of jeans for 5 days running and have no other clean clothes to put on! I’ve even slept in my jeans on the sleeper train but there is nowhere to wash any of our stuff!! Xi’an is really dirty and smoggy and it hasn’t stopped raining since we got here! Our bedroom in the hostel is in the cellar and the bar is right above us and so there is constant noise all night long so I can’t sleep very well. I’m really not liking this place very much!!
We went to the Muslim quarter today which is amazing and nothing like anything I’ve experianced before but even though I loved it I hated it at the same time! There was this really cute dog just like any normal dog you would see in the uk! It was stuck in a cage smaller than the cage I used to keep my hamsters in! It couldn’t even stand up!! I know over here they eat dogs but just seeing it stuck in such a tiny cage really upset me!! I wanted to buy it and set it free!!
I’m currently sat outside starbucks having a much needed caramel latte and watching the world go by!! It’s a very different world to watch over here than back at home!!