The next day found me in the sad state that all travellers find themselves in from time to time. I wanted to hear my own language. I wanted to rest from the strain of piecing together pigeon English or struggling to understand the littlest scrap of beautiful Chinese. Pathetic really but still...<……

November the 14th found me packing my bags for the next stage of my journey. Xian waited. Here I hoped to see the fabled terracotta army: silent witnesses to the past. In the waiting room at Chengdu railway station I was joined by an Irish girl named Carmel. We had a good gossip. She had travelle……

Three Amercican students, Tasha (18), Frances(18) and Daniel(16) will stay in China more than one month, they will attend classes in senior high school, be oral English teacher occationally, visit homes, join in activities.  Mr. Matt Setliffe, their teacher stayed with them for the first wee……