6/18/13

6/18/13, 11:00pm, Chengdu 

This morning we took a plane to Chengdu from Taiyuan. Chengdu is in Sichuan province. Sichuan is pretty much located in the middle of China if you look at it on a map. It is a lot hotter here than it was in Shanxi and Beijing and it is extremely humid. The other two places felt a lot dryer. Chengdu and Taiyuan both have worse air quality than Beijing. In class we learned that Beijing isn’t even on the top 10 most polluted cities in China! It’s crazy because everyone thinks Beijing is so bad but it isn’t compared to other places in China. I think it must be focused on because the 2008 Olympics brought a lot of attention. The air here is weird because it is so smoggy that you can’t really tell if it is about to rain. It’s so smoggy that it’s hard to tell if it is foggy or not and it’s hard to see clouds because we don’t see a clear blue sky. Tomorrow we’re going to see Pandas!