reading for writing. one read richard's email to his friend and the brochure that he found.do you think his plan sounds interesting? why? dear xiao li 。 my time here in China is going well,I love my new school and classmates. over the October hotter day,my parents and I are planning to go to cheyenne to see the terracotta army. i've heard that it is an amazing sight and i can't wait to go. to me,the story of the terracotta army is almost unbelievable. it's amazing that there are more than eight thousand statues and no one in modern times knew about them until the nineteen seventies. we are also planning to visit several other places in cheyenne,my dad and I are both looking forward to going to the chans hi history museum because my dad loves history. and I have heard that this museum is known as a Chinese treasure house.we're also going to the shiite city wall and a few other famous sites.we're taking the train,leaving the day before the October holiday begins. we'ing at nine thirty am and will start sightseeing right away,so I hope we sleep well on the train.I guess that's all for now. i'll write again soon and send photos. do you have any plans for the coming holiday hope to hear from you soon,your friend Richard?terra cutter army. come and see the terracotta army more than eight thousand statues were made in the third century bce to guard the tomb of the Chinese emperor chins heir huang. each statue has a different face leading researchers to believe that each one is a copy of a real soldier.the statues fill only one part of the emperor's huge tomb.which still has not been completely unearthed. no one in modern times knew about the tomb.or the terracotta statues until nineteen seventy four,when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were digging a well.