Xian (Terra Cotta Warriors)

We arrived in Xian yesterday afternoon and Marsha Ma from Hope Foster Home met us at the airport with little Jimmy (her 18 mo old son). We got to the hotel, The Bell Tower Hotel, and the orphanage had arranged for us to have their driver take us to the Terra Cotta warriors about 45 minutes out side of Xian. Jeff and I spent about two hours with a tour guide explaining all of the details of the eighth wonder of the world. We then came back to Xian city and grabbed a bit of dinner with Marsh at Pizza Hut.

Today we are heading to the only orphanage in Xian to assemble the library for the children. Marsh was able to secure about 3000 books for us to organize and make ready to be checked out. Imagine two sales guys pretending to be librarians. Marsha has arranged for bookshelves and all the needed materials to be there for us to put together. The orphanage donated two rooms for the library to be housed. This orphanage has about 600 children ranging in age from infant to school aged children and it has quite an extensive foster program in the community.

We wanted to post this picture of a girl that begs outside of our hotel for now. She is roughly 18 and her mother works a local labor job and her father is sick and cannot work. She volunteerd to go on the streets and beg for her family. Her mother dropps her off every morning and picks her up every evenening around 10 -11:00 PM. This one grabbed both of our hearts in a big way. Have a great day!