more student writing

Abbi – Mango Flavor?

I walked a couple of steps down the aisle. We reached the chips and my feet slowed to a shuffle. My eyes scanned the shelves looking for something interesting, something exotic. My eyes skim over the lables and my eyes turn back. I found what I wanted, mango flavored Lays. I pick up the package, it crinkles and I keep walked with the mango flavor in my arms.

Abbi– Dropping Forks

Crash, crash, crash

Three forks, minutes apart

Fall to the stone, all mine

New forks appear.

Click, Click

One pair of chopsticks hit

The pile, mine, a new pair

Of chopsticks

Crash one fork, not

Mine hits the floor.

I look down to find

A fork placed in front of me,

Not my clean fork

David– the Great Wall

The Great Wall was my favorite part of the China trip so far. The Great Wall felt like it was a hot climate before. I assumed it was a normal climate where the Great Wall is. The towers inside sometimes had a bad smell of pee. The stair in between the towers felt like it would be easy to go up, but it wasn’t. Everything I guessed on how the Great Wall would be was not true, it was a completely different experience that I thought it would be.

David - Maos

I didn’t really know what was going to be in the next roombut once I did there was a coffin. When I walked closer, I saw a dead body that was glowing orange. It was Mao. I thought it was fake at first, but then someone told me it was real. I was thinking “wow that’s the first I’ve ever seen a dead body,” especially from a body dead for 30 years and from a famous guy. I think I am the first American/Mexican from Seattle, Washington who is `14 years old to see Mao.

Monica – Thoughts

What was amazing?

· So many people in Tianemen Square

· Mao is bright orange

What did you do that you didn’t think you could do?

· Bargin

· Walk so much

· Spend so much time with Delaney

· Take a ride on a rickshaw

What was the most fun?

· Bargining with people

· Going shopping

· Looking at people

What stands out to you?

· People

· So many dumplings

· So much walking