Jian Guo Beijing

... our hutong. Breaksfast was bread rolls from a tiny bakery and then a bowl of hot soy milk with fried bread in it! Really good. We then went to the Temple of Heavan park and watched locals play their morning games of Tai chi and badmington. People were also singing Peking opera and lots of other things. It was really entertaining as the locals were always wanting us to join in! These men play this game where they throw soft hoops around each ...

... so if we w*nted to see even * sm*ll portion of the rem*ining touristy things we'd h*ve to get moving pronto. We visited Ti*n*nmen Squ*re which is * v*st sp*ce the likes of which just c*n't be *ccur*tely portr*yed unless you're there, h*rri bought * drink th*t *ctu*lly t*sted like wh*t it s*id on the l*bel which w*s str*wberry shortc*ke oddly enough *nd we toured *round the ouside of the people's concil *nd m*o's m*usoleum before he*ding to the third side of the squ*re where the ...

... so I am going to practise speaking Chinese in a little bit.  I'll have to count how many times I get laughed at... maybe by people other than the ones in our group... they've pretty much all already made fun of my "woah men dsai jung gwoh" even though they do understand what I'm saying!  

... a thing costs if you divide it buy ten thats what it's really worth and what you should pay. So if they say 100 yuan, you say 10 yuan. Quinn got a pair of shoes. At one point while Quinn was looking for shoes everyone was pawing him and trying to get him into their booth and he was so overwhelmed that he started crying! I was happy to go. Today we went to the Great Wall!!!!!!!!! I was so excited! We woke up early and got driven to the ...

... gate, stood under the famous Mao portrait, then proceeded through the gate. Inside the large courtyard behind the gate, there were souvenir stores on both sides of the walkway. We had to stop to buy bottled water or ice-cream often because the heat made you dehydrated fast. Once we were inside the ticketed gate ...

... are very nervous about that kind of scenario happening again. If there were any protest, or some sort of incident around the games, the media essentially would have unlimited access to cover it," said Hugo Restall, editor of the Far East Economic Review. The Far East Economic Review is a unit of News Corp., as is MarketWatch, the publisher of this report. As part of heightened security efforts, China has tightened its visa requirements, forcing some foreign ...

OK, almost one month completed here in Biejing, and all's quiet on the far eastern front. Shall we start with academics? Progress is quick, although my class has varying levels of experience and aptitude which at times makes the process seem painfully slow. That combined with the fact that whenever I ask a question, I always seem to get an answer from this one guy in the class. Have I shared with any of you my opinion of discussion based ...

Nihao! Here I am sitting in a lovely courtyard-style guesthouse in Beijing, having just eating fried rice for lunch... A quick update to say I have arrived safely in the Middle Kingdom. It's much colder than we expected, in fact I bought a scarf already (orange, for solidariety with Byrmania). The plane trip was fine. No upgrade to Business class unfortunately! Fingers crossed for the return... I ...

... right after class I caught a cab a headed a few miles east down Chengfu Road to check the new Olympic Village construction. I hope to return to Beijing for the Olympics so I wanted to see what it looks like now. I simply cannot believe how much construction Beijing has commenced all for three weeks of the Olympics. Unbelievable. I don't know how long Beijing's ...

Traveling from Hanoi to Kunming traveled for close to 24 hrs from Hanoi to KM. took a 9.5 hr train ride from Hanoi to Lao Cai. then crossed the Viet-China border by foot. followed by 11 hr bus ride from He Kou to KM. my bums were really sore from sitting down so long. luckily, i had some nice company in the form of a Jap student who sat beside me on the bus. he's called song tian (chinese translation) and is doing ...