We have just come back from a 7-day trip to Urumqi, Turpan and Dunhuang in northwestern China and from Xi'an in central China. It was a long and event-filled week. We did this with about 50 other BYU English teachers during the National Day Holiday for China. In Urumqi we were among many Uygur (Wee-grrr) people, a minority group in China. They speak their own language to each other on the street, but most know some Mandarin which they are required to learn in school. We visited the remains of some ancient cities one of which was actually dug out of the ground rather than being built above it. The Uygur people are of Turkic descent and their language is similar to Turkish, but is written in what familiarly appears as Arabic. Signs are in both Uygur and Chinese.
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