Train from Lhasa to Xian

I shared a room with a Chinese girl who had been studying Engineering in Singapore. I tried to discuss issues about the Freedom of Tibet cos the night before was still running through my mind but the whole thing did not go down very well and I felt bad cos it wasn't these peoples fault.


While in the dining cart one of the guys gave me his email and asked me to help him with English. I was more than happy to try and give him a hand. Later that night I made friends with this Russian guy called Sergy. He was really nice and spoke great English. He filled me with hope that Russia would be no where near as scary as I first thought.

When I went to the dining cart with Sergy for dinner the guy who gave me his email got upset and I was banned from the dining cart. Which is really crap when you are on a 35 hour train ride!!!The whole thing was really weird. I didn't know getting someones email was meant to mean anything other than you will email them!
The gang on the train.

I arrived at Xian at 8pm to be greeted by my dad and sister!! It was very exciting!!