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Dream comes true!

Xiang Maonan    2005-12-14

The trips in 2005 have been made the bright recollecting unconsiously.
Werealized it is a unique one when we first accept this task.
The travel of the Chengtion alonastery pagoda is co-called "makes a dekut", All of us unexperienced, but we have independently completed the project including the record, pohotographs and so on. We not only accumulated much experience but also obtained a lot of useful knowledge.
It is the first time that I have been to Chengtian Monastery Pagoda, although I passed by many times, today my dream comes true eventually.
At 8:00 am one week, Our dream members gathered and set out to start out team "first" first after a short preparation. Though insufficienty experienced, we were out prevented taking part in this interesting activity. Luckily, I began to realise the importance of collective strength and cooperation as well from it.
We got much more experience during the travel of westerm Xia Tombs.Teacher decided to lead us to go because he worried about us. In the beginning, we had some difficulty in finding vehicles. But to our delight ,we rented a bus and got to Westenrn Xia Tombs, where we learnt a lot and took many pictures.
Western Xia Tombs display the history of the Western Xia Dynasty in each exhibition hall. Only after visiting did we realixe how little we knew. Try thinking, that Ningxia liked so small but it could be so prosperous at that time! With the halls visited one byb one, it was then more attractive.
It is diffcult for us to imagine that such a ling history of western Xia can be read vividly in such s small place foundation to its prosperity.
We knew more about Western Xia colture besides its historyical knowledge for instance the charecter "夏" meant Weastern Xia would exist for ever. We can see from many characters that oeople then took great pains in order to create its own characters.
And then, we went to the mausoleum area with a strong disire to discover something more.Fortunately, we really did. That is something on the cultural relics preserration. Regarding the Western Xia culture essence, what surprised us was that people didn't take any proteative measures, thus leaving it free to corrode by the wind and rain, moreover there were obvious footprints in the place marked "surmounts in the protecktion".
We left Weatern Xia Tombs unvillingly after sunset.
As for Haibaoda Pagoda,you would enjoy youselves at once.The beautiful scenery caught your eyes within it's fun that there are fireand entering such small room. After buying tickets ,you found this Haibao Pagoda turned a Buddhist temple suddenly and unexpectedly. Let's climb up the tower! What a pirty! You saw various of dirty marks on the wall here and there, such ad "Good Luch"and "XXX reached here". What's more, the windows had been locked. Well, to our satisfactory, we still took a number of pictures and got a lot.
Rethinking what we did in dream team, I believe it is well worth, although I looked on it as a nightmore of maths eneving class. No pains ,No gains. I'm sure that our Dream will be more and more mature as we grow up.
Now, we stop collecting the materrials. But we still have a long way to go. Believe it or not as long as each of us keep a dream in our mind, it will centainly come true one day!