Toby

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Day 1: I got up at 3.30AM. I was still really tired, but ,amaged to get some breakfast into myself. I arrived to the school at 4.45AM and waited for everyone to come. At 5.00AM everyone got on the bus and we left for the airport. At some point everyone went into the plane and we were off to Lijiang. When we arrived at the Lijiang airport we took a bus to the place where we were eating lunch in the old parts of Lijiang city. The food wasn't what I usually eat, mostly because of the wierd body parts of animals we were eating. For example: chicken kidney, home-made tofu etc. after we ate lunch we went to the black dragon pool park, which was next to the restaurant. The black dragon pool park was amazing and you could really feel the fresh air. We had a nice walk in the park and I took a few pictures. After a few hours spent in the park we went to stroll around in Lijiang old town. At 9.00PM we went to watch the Naxi orchestra perform their traditional music. The instruments that they used weren't all orignally from China and looked very similar to the ones we use mostly in western traditions today. Alot of the musicians were older than 80 years old, which was very cool. After an "enjoyable" performance we finally went to the hotel to sleep.

Day 2: Today I woke up at 6.30AM, which was super annoying because I couldnt really sleep that well. The hotels breakfast was really good compared to last years EOTC trip. At 8.00AM everyone we left for the Jade snow dragon mountain. We had to go up by cable car to reach the upper checkpoint of the mountain. THe cable car ride was one of the most unenjoyable things I have experienced in a long time (especially when Chase and .co started shaking the whole thing). At the time we reached the top I was already ready to go down again. However I didnt get up there to go down again so i went out onto the mountain. It was the first time felt snow on my hands in a long time. It was almost like I was all the way back in Sweden. The heigth of the point of where we were standing was 4506m which is the highest altitude I ever have been up to. There was a really cool slide at the checkpoint that my friends and I rode 3 times. At the end of the three rides we were all really tired and had it hard to breathe because of the height. We went down the mountain to feel better. When the whole group got back down we left the mountain for a local school in Lijiang. The local school was looking much better than what I had expected really. I didnt really enjoy being there, because all the student we were meeting were older than us. Never the less, we got a tour of the school and I had a better understanding of how the children in Lijiang have it (super much HW and school starts at 7.00AM to 11.00PM). After we had the culture exchange we left for dinner. After the western style dinner we got free time at the hotel. However, I was feeling sick at the hotel and had to take medicine. I fell asleep very quickly.

Day 3: Today I woke up at 7.10

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