I know more than indianna Jones

Yesterday was pretty much a flawless day in terms of a plan well executed. Got up at 6, found a novel way to switch my alarm off, it involved dropping the phone from the top bunk and retrieving it from the floor under the bottom bunk, i don't recommend it. Checked uot and took my big bag to the train station luggage store and got the first bus of the day to the terracotta warriors museum. Another victory for my student ID which I have been flashing everywhere on the off chance that they do a discount that isn't publiscised (at least not in English). 50% off so I cheated and instead of the 15 minute walk to the site I paid Y3 (24p) for a golf buggy taxi instead, yey.
The army wasn;t discovered until the 1970's and there is no record of its existence before that, kind of makes you head go a bit crazy. Means that anyone studying ancient history in the 60's would not have know about it, Indianna Jones (assuming he was real which I know he isn't but that's not the point) would not have known about it, he may know Latin, Greek, German, Sanskrit and Ancient Mayan but he didn't know about this, madness. It's pretty impressive, still an active dig site because it's not all bee uncovered yet. ypu can see all the ones that have been pieced together and then go and see the ones they're still working on with bits missing and stuff. My favourite bloke was one of the archers in Pit one, everyone else was stood to attention, he had his head at an angle as though trying to work out what they were all waiting around for.
I wanted to buty a little mini statue to take home but all the shops on site were crazily expensive. got the bus back into town and went to where all the souvenir stalls were, was very tempted to get more Starbuck's but resisted. Got my figure and hopped on the bus back to the train station where I only had to wait for 2 hours which seems like nothing compared to some of the other waits I've had.

In the queue i saw all the stuff the hacked me off so much on the last journey, thank God I'd managed to get a sleeper ticket I kept telling myself. The peole I was sharing with were really lovely, thought I was hoing to have to kick off with a couple of them when they tool out a cigarette box but they went out to the smoking point down the corridor without even being asked, lovely lovely people. Lights out on most of the trains is 11 o'clock which came and went without stopping the chatter. They taught me how to count to 10 in Mandarin and i taught them the names of all the football players I knew, one advantage of being from Manchester is that everyone knows at least one thing about it!

Slept really well now that i know how the system works. When you gwt on the train you give a lady your ticket and she'll wake you up when it's time for your stop. As it was I was awake well before that. 18 hours later (!) arrived in Chengdu. Had a vague idea where I was headed, was planning to get a taxi there because it's pretty far to walk. In the end I followed a couple of other foreigners who I spotted on the platform. They'd already made reservations at a hostel and rung ahead for a free pick up so i tagged along with them. Think the guy was made up when he managed to fill 3 beds instead of the 2 he'd expected to get.
The place is really nice, had a shower and washed clothes. Found a bank with a cash machine I could use, came back and booked myself on two of the tours arranged by the hotel, means I don't have to worry about finding buses or getting lost or running out of time. Am off to see some Chinese opera tonight-opera here is not the same as in Europe, it's like a singing and dances fire breating circus/stunt show so lloking forward to that. Then tomorrow am off to the Panda breeding centre. Eeeeeeeee. Anyone who lives with me or Hannah will know exactly what that sounds like. SO EXCITED. Am going to put all my photos on my USB stick tonight so I have totally empty memory card for it which i will probably fill up with pandas.

Sorry the punctuation here is all over the place the computer decided that I want to write from right to left instead of t'other way so it made everything go a little crazy.