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 * UPDATE:** Another good day. Most significantly, we visited the site of the terra cotta warriors, which is truly amazing. Football filed sized pits are home to literally thousands of clay soldiers, some restored with great care, some broken and in mass disarray, others still buried. I'm going to ask you to wait for a full update, though. Tomorrow, a travel day, will be less eventful (we hope!), and I'm finding that updating and loading this site is taking too much time because of all the pictures I've included. So today, I'm really just going to do a little housekeeping. From now on, please check the navigation bar to the left to revisit our trip so far on a day-by-day basis or to see daily updates for the remainder of the trip.


 * Parents and Friends:**

Check us out. Depending on our internet access in China, we'll try to update this site on a regular basis to share what we've done, what we've seen, what we've experienced as the ten of us—six students and four faculty—travel through China on the 2010 senior project. Please visit this site, share your thoughts, and enjoy.


 * Our Itinerary: THAYER ACADEMY / WEIYU SISTER SCHOOL TRIP TO CHINA**

May 20th (Th): Depart Boston (__be at Logan by 5:30 AM__) Continental CO9 dep. Boston 7:30 AM (arrives Newark @ 8:50) Continental CO89 dep. Newark 12:10 PM (arrives Beijing (next day) @ 1:50 PM

May 21th (F): Arrive Beijing, China late afternoon. Tel: 86 10 84031188 101 Jiao Dao Kou Dong Da Jie Street, East district, Beijing. 100007**
 * Beijing Oriental Culture Hotel.

May 22th (Sa): Tour Tian an Men Square, the Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven

May 23rd (Su): Tour the Great Wall and Gongfu Exhibition

May 24th (M): Tour Olympic Site, the Summer Palace, and take the Hutong Tour Take overnight train to Xi An, departs 9:18 PM

May 25th (T): Arrive Xi An @ 8:19 AM Tour the City Wall, the Bell Tower, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, North Square. Tel: 86 29 6267800 135 West Street Lian Hu District, Xi'an City. 71002**
 * West Capital International Hotel

May 26th (W): Tour the Terra-Cotta Warrior Site, Folk Paintings in County Hu, Great Tang Lotus Gardens, and enjoy a dumpling banquet at night.

May 27th (TH): Fly to Shanghai from Xi An ( Flight CA #1215) departs 10:15 AM, arrives 12:15 PM Arrive at WeiYu School, visit classes, overnight in school dorm.
 * __WeiYu High School__**
 * 1 Wei Yu Road**
 * Shanghai 200231**
 * Tel: 011- 86- 21-64960808 Fax: 011 86 21-64962926**

May 28th (F): Visit classes Tour of Shanghai Center Overnight at home of a Chinese student

May 29th (Sa): Time w. Chinese family Overnight at home of a Chinese student

May 30th (Su): Time w. Chinese family Overnight in school dorm.

May 31st (M): Visit classes Tour of selected sites in Shanghai Overnight in school dorm

June 1st (Tu): Return to Boston (Arrive home the same day) Continental CO86 dep. Shanghai 3:45 PM (arrives Newark @ 6:20 PM) Continental CO1192 dep. Newark 8:00 PM (arrives Boston @ 9:29 PM)