I am still alive

Sorry to everyone I have no been very good at keeping up with my blog these last couple of weeks. That is because not that much has really gone on. It turns out that I am going to school here and I have had a final and bunch of papers due. The only thing that happened to me that was interesting was last weekend when I went to a Diwali celebration at an Indian restaurant here that was run by Tibetans who had lived in India for several years in exile. Diwali is one of the biggest holidays for Hindus so we went there and ate some pretty good Indian food and watched some Indian belly dancers. the only reason that I went is because I have made friends with an Indian guy who is from America who told us about the restaurant and the holiday. It was just a little bizarre to be celebrating a Hindu holiday in China with Tibetans and Indians in Chengdu. Other than that though I am sorry nothing out of the ordinary has happened. This fact slightly worries me because that means that all of this craziness that I see on a daily basis is starting to become normal now which is becoming a little frightening. Thing should pick up this week because I will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday which should be fun and then we are going to Xian which is the Ancient capital of China and where the Terracotta Warriors are so be looking for that.