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Hello everyone. For this post, we start out in the city of Cairo in Egypt. This is where we met up with a National Geographic Expedition and were introduced to our guide, Aki, who showed us around Egypt. He was great and taught me so much about ancient Egypt. My mom was happy about this because ancient Egypt is something the sixth graders at my school plan to study this year.

First, we traveled over to the city of Giza, where the great pyramids are found. This city is built right up to the edge of the desert. The second you enter the desert, it is just nothingness for miles, with the exception of the pyramids. The closer you get to them, the smaller you feel. The first pyramid we went to was built for the pharaoh Cheops and it was HUGE - the largest of all the pyramids. There are three big pyramids here and in order to get a really good view of all of them together, we went for a camel ride on the sand dunes.
 

Hello everyone. This past week we went overseas for the first time on the trip: China! So, I guess I should really say, "ni hao," which is how you say hello in Chinese (it's pronounced "nee how"). Our first stop was Beijing, where we were met by our new friend, Mon. She was nice enough to guide us around the city and showed us some of her favorite places and restaurants.

Beijing is all cleaned up because they just hosted the Olympics. There are all new subways and they even rebuilt the airport. All over the city, there are signs with the Olympic mascots and the motto, "One World, One Dream." They also have lots of topiaries that are shaped like the Great Wall, pandas and more.