Platform 9 & 3/4 (12/07)

Hi Everybody! It’s Hannah. This morning we had our last class of the week, as tonight we leave for our first excursion in Beijing. We are going to Xi’an to see the Terra-cotta Warriors!

After class, we got free time until just after dinner when we left for the train station. A significant amount of the group took the subway to go to this Cat Cafe that Macy found. To our delight, there were 15 cats walking around. So one cat for each person that went (plus two extra cats!!). About 20 or 30 minutes into this stop, we had all the cats in our corner. One cat kept walking on Mikkel’s back, while the rest were pretty infatuated with Brodie and his pencil (#catwhisperer). It felt so good to pet an animal again. I think we’ve all been slightly deprived of that this semester.


Later that day we left for our excursion. We are taking an overnight train to get to Xi’an. It felt very much like we were in Harry Potter, when he takes the train to Hogwarts. Between the 24 of us, we had 4 cubicles with 6 beds in them each. A triple stacked bunk bed lined each side of the cubicle with an 18” aisle in between. It was definitely cozy! There was no where else for us to go, so we spent the night crammed into our cubicles. If everyone remained seated it didn’t feel that claustrophobic. Some people watched a movie, others played games. It was fun to have a group sleepover!





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