My Big Adventure!
American International School Hong Kong, Nireshwalia, Jihan - 7
Vacations
The summer vacations were close. We had recently moved to Asia and we all came up with the idea of
visiting CHINA!
The Trip
Finally the day is here, we are here in Shanghai. Beautiful place! At the airport I found a tourism
information booklet. I came across a very interesting page, The Terracotta Warriors! I was so amazed to
read about them. I had to visit this place!
No we can’t!!
Next morning at the breakfast I slipped the booklet towards my Dad. Dad said we already have planned
the events and there is no more time for anything else. I tried my best, but my parents wouldn’t agree. I
had to visit the place somehow!
I can make it!
In the list of our tourist places to visit, I saw that on our 3rd day we are going to visit Xi’an. That’s the
entire Terracotta Warrior burial site. I am so close!! I can visit the site, but how?
A new friend.
On the third day we finally arrived at my most awaited place, Xi’an! The whole entire day was spent
seeing, The Drum Tower, The Bell Tower, come on guys!! I have better things to do!! In our tour, I
met an equally bored looking boy like me. His name was Henry Fung, and he was from Hong Kong. I
told him about the Terracotta Warriors and he also knew about it. In fact he knew much more! He told
me about the powerful Emperor Qin Shi Huang, how he wanted to make the whole army of around
8000 soldiers to be made and buried along with him after his death. All because he wanted to be
protected by them even after he died.
The Plan
Henry and I, both wanted to visit the site very badly. Henry said, “But we can’t! The site is protected and
no one can enter it!” We needed a PLAN! We decided to sneak out of our rooms in the midnight. We
had the map from the tourist booklet, and we could read it! We were here, at the burial site. We hid and
watched them. They entered a small opening in the corner and disappeared. We followed them but were
too scared to enter the dark opening. Brave Henry put his hand in and he said, “I can feel something like
a book!!” He pulled it out, it was a diary!
The Diary
I couldn’t read Mandarin, luckily Henry could, with great great difficulty! He explained that diary
belonged to one of the men who made the Terracotta Warriors. He said the whole site is also buried
with loads of treasure! One who gets in will surely DIE!! “That’s it!” I said, “enough of adventure, lets go
back!” Henry was equally scared and we rushed back to our hotel rooms.
NOOOOOO!!!!!
Next day at breakfast, I was grim! Dad thought I was sad because we couldn’t visit the site. He said, “Hey
buddy, how about we go and check out the burial site today!!” All I could shout was,
“NOOooooooooo!” I heard a similar cry from the table next to us! Guess who it was??
