Dear Journal,

Guess what? I left the cave! The only downside to this is that I think I'm in...China now, I think.

I'm not sure what year it is, and all I know is that I'm surrounded by very unfamiliar sights and sounds. Though I'm pretty sure I am in China, and that is mostly owed to the fact I had heard Cho speak Chinese a couple of times while I was hanging out with Luna in the Ravenclaw common room.

And the only language that I've heard spoken, no matter where I go, is Chinese, so...China! And even if I'm wrong, it doesn't really matter, since it's not like I could leave, not that I really want too, either.

China is completely different from anywhere that I've ever been before, and it's interesting. It also doesn't hurt that I managed to find the magical part of it within my first few hours here.

So here I am in magical China, with a simple translating charm applied to myself, which helps a little with trying to get around, but it isn't the best, so some words still go completely over my head, and best of all...fireworks!

I know, completely unexpected, but I found a stall that was selling them, and to be completely honest, I couldn't have helped myself if I tried

After talking to the stall owner, mostly through hand gestures telling how many I wanted, and some horribly mangled accented Chinese, because the charm could help me hear what was going on, for the most part, but it didn't help at all with actually speaking the language, save for letting me know what the Chinese equivalent to the English words I wanted to speak were.

This is completely my fault, though, for not bothering to learn any translating charms besides the basic one I'm using now, but back to the fireworks. I managed to get twenty, and the best part is, they're supposed to take the form of various Chinese magical creatures, and act like they do for a bit before going out.

I plan on finding a nice out of the way hill, and setting some of them off later tonight, hopefully I'll still be here to do that, but until then, I'm just going to explore a bit, and try some new foods.

Until next time,

H.J.P.B