Cesar, May 16

Cesar, May 16

I thought today was just another day, wake up and do the activities. But it was not meant to be a normal day, fate had a different story to be acted. While sleeping in my bed, I heard a loud sound on the door, I was still dreaming so I was scared and I woke up. But surprisingly it was just a friend knocking on the door, and so I went to greet him and he says, “Someone is looking for you,” I was still sleepy so I didn’t really know what to do and so I asked, “Who is it?” and all of the sudden a person appears in front of my eyes. Memories start flashing in front of my eyes about the times I had spent with this person and so I said hello and gave her a hug.

She was a friend that I met a year ago and I thought I would never see again, because she had left the US and gone back to China. My face suddenly came with a smile and I was happy, I thought this person to be a thing of the past, and to never be seen again but this day was to be a joyful day. Then we went out to eat and we talked about the past the future, goals, dreams and we had such a great night. It was just like being back at school going out to eat and having fun and being happy people. This date is May 11 of 2011.

5-15-11

Today was the day we would go to the panda reserve in Cheng Du, and the Beijing opera. This would be the first time I would see a panda, I was expecting it to be like any other animal, but while looking and watching I realized how these animals have survived, they are slow, have a lot of diseases, and predators and still they are alive. As I watched them they looked calm and always hungry, and very sleepy. As I was walking down the reserve I was hearing people and they were talking about the red panda, but they were saying it was a giant red raccoon. I was laughing inside.

In the afternoon we went to the opera, I thought it was going to be like other operas I`ve seen in the past, the first part was the normal loud singing and typical opera. But I thought that was it, but actually it kept going to another act, and another act and another. Each act was different than others and very exciting the best part was the hand puppet it was very cool, the way he was able to move his hands and the motions of an animal eating a little rabbit. That was the best part, I enjoyed it very much, I did not think it would but it was very good.