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Rest day in Beijing
Well my adventure is pretty much done, bag packed and ready for the 5am alarm call to start my journey back to normality! We had a fab day in Beijing today, our Chinese tour guide Kevin, certainly packed as many things in as possible. We started at Tiananmen Square central Beijing's huge square, followed by the Forbidden City, very interesting to hear about the Emperor way.... We then went to the Drum ...
And on the seventh day...
... designed with the same
entrance pattern as the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City: The
main entrance was reserved for God, one for the nobility, one for the commoners where the members entered. This odd blend of ancient mythos
and foreign religion simply astounded me, it was the fifth or so time
we'd walked by this church and it was only now that I realized it.
Walking in, this was one of the ...
Ni hao China and Zai jian to my jorney
... the gift to the boy was his mother's smile and he would do anything to see his mother smile again after the fact that his mother lost her brocade and was very sad. After being inside she took me down-town where all these bright colored places were. Soon it was three and we all went to pick up her cousin. This was a long day full of a bunch of things to do. I love going to China. It is so neat with very colorful and amazing ...
Beihai Park - Dim Sum
... at the Central Conservatory. Prof. Zhang recently finished a DMA in the US and started her position at the Central Conservatory. We met up with two of her friends who are also in their 30s and they took me to a fabulous Cantonese restaurant in a nearby hotel. The food was great, but the conversation was even better. One of her friends is also a professor and the other one is a lawyer and businessman who works in ...
Cheap Chinese Consumerism
... enter a vendor's stall, casually looking around at their products. In surprisingly good English, they ask you if you like whatever you happen to be looking at at the moment. You answer them in Chinese, garnering some surprise and a little bit of respect, even if it is feigned. Now the real fun starts. They tell you how much it is, which is always drastically overpriced. Always. With a look of shock and indignation, you bemoan the fact that they can insult you with such a ...
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