Bei jin huan yin ning!

A few days ago, we went to Beijing. It is the capital of China. We went to the Forbidden City. It is called the Forbidden City because: the king his family and staff would all live in the Forbidden City. If anybody else would come in they would be killed. It was a very big place.

The next morning, we went to the Great Wall. It took us a very long time to get to the Wall. There were a lot of little shops while we were climbing to the great wall. Jacek was in front of us the whole time. When we were actually on the great wall, Jacek got lost. We all had bought panda hats to keep us warm. Mom and dad went looking for him, which left Sofia and me all alone. We didn’t have anything to do. Finally we saw a white bobbing hat. “Hey Sofia,” I yelled, “That’s him.”

“What, where?”

“I see his bobbing hat.”

We ran to find dad. He ran after him. A while later, dad found Jacek. He called mom and told her that we found him. We kept on going through towers and stairs. We reached the alpine sledding place. At one of the turrets, Jacek fell off a steep, metal ladder. Thankfully, all he got was a scrape. We kept going. We went as far as we could go. We ate lunch. I got a piece of dirt in my eye; I couldn’t get it out. We headed back to the alpine sledding place. Thankfully, I got to be in my own sled. I would pull towards me to brake, and to go fast I would pull the lever away from me. It was so exiting.

The next day we went to see Mao's body. There was a very, very, very, very, very long line. When I finally caught up Sofia and Jacek, it was all knees and elbows. We were supposed to show our ID’s (even if you don’t have one), we just didn’t look at the guards. We got past them. Other people needed to make sure that we had ID’s but they just put us in groups. Mao looked like he was made out of wax.