The Great Wall of China
After nine days in Okinawa, we’re now in Beijing, China. Weather wise, everything is pretty much the same as Japan to me. It’s still pretty humid, but no big differences in my opinion. We’ve been in China for three days now. There hasn’t been anything exciting going on except for practice, if you want to call that exciting.
Today, though, we took a trip to the Great Wall of China. Talk about a cool place. These are the types of places that you dream about going to, and when you visit them you will never forget the experience ever. Anyway, so we get to the Great Wall only to find about a thousand steps waiting for us to climb. The coaches told us that we wouldn’t have a work out until the afternoon, but they tricked us. Walking up those steps was a work out in itself. It’s something I will never forget and wouldn’t give up for the world. We climbed up higher and higher, and higher and higher. Finally, we got to a point where we just stood around and took pictures. I took a few pictures standing on this rock that was really high up. I had to get on it carefully because if I would have made the wrong step, it would have been the end. It was a scary feeling, but it’s all good, I’m still living.
Overall, the wall was really intriguing. It just took a lot of work to climb up there. And you know what, there was a tram that was taking people back to the bottom of the Great Wall, but they wanted like $20 per person to ride. That’s correct, $20 U.S. dollars. Yeah right, I’ll take the walk back down. It’s not that serious; I’m an athlete.
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Opening ceremonies begin tomorrow, so check it out online at www.universalsports.com. Also check out www.paralympicsport.tv.
