Train ride continued

The train was fun for about 6 hours then it got a little old. We were able to see a lot of the countryside which was in some parts were beautiful and others parts were depressingly dirty and poor. One funny thing that happened was around 8 oclock a guy came around selling flashlights ones that did not need batteries. He came on our car and gave about 5 minute sales pitch in Chinese and we did not pay much attention to him we just thought it was funny how he would selling them the way he was and was not just pushing a cart like the other people. Then around 10 Oclock the lights went out and that guy just happened to be in our car and about 15 of us bought a flashlight from him for 10 Yuan ($1.33) It was slightly humerous. Sleeping on the train was not quite as funny. It is kind of hard to sleep on first off there are people walking by and all sorts of things going on while you are trying sleep and second of all the train is moving constantly. Luckily though the do have little straps that come down that keep you from falling off the bed when the train stops which is does about 45 minutes at certain train stations. It was easy to sleep when the train was moving but once it stopped it would wake you a up and you would have to start the whole process of falling back to sleep again not too much fun but it i something I am glad I did once.