Xi'an

Finally, getting to the end of the trip that ended almost a month ago... Our last big stop was Xian, the ancient capital of China. Here, our main experience was Sunshine International Camp. This camp was definately not what we expected, and ended up being completely exhausting, but in the end totally worth it. For 10 days, we were with Chinese college students, as we all learned what it meant to "transform, fly high, and fill the world with love!" This slogan, although cheesy, allowed us great freedom to talk about our lives and our thoughts freely in the group, which is what the camp focused on. The speeches were all aimed at purpose, what love really was, and how do you really love others, giving us brothers and sisters perfect platforms to speak. It was an incredible time, the best of which was having honest and deep conversations with these disciplined, but at heart really immature and naive, fellow students.

Here are some pictures that illustrate our time here (sorry, this dumb computer is not cooperating... after an hour of waiting, I've got 3 pictures for you... In a couple of days, I'm getting some pictures of my group and I, so I will post those soon (In case you don't know, I don't actually possess a camera, so all the pictures I post on here must come from other people!)

During the camp, we made a carnival with different booths... One of the booths was a newspaper dress up station, and somehow this of course turned into a braveheart dressup station for us Americans.

Our team's only opportunity of a truly all-you-can eat buffet... We took full advantage

Xi'an is known for being the ancient capital of China. One of our favorite excapades while visiting the city was getting to bike around on the city wall. We got around a quarter of it until I broke my chain and had to ride back on a cart.