Jiao Lou Business Hotel Forbidden City
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... and the Forbidden City. Tiananem Square was an eye opener. Going through security, we were waved right through. No one cared about checking us. Meanwhile, a 20 year old was patted down, his bag checked, the whole 9 yards. Tiananem was a must see, but not that great. There are these huge TVs that are supposed to be constantly streaming news, but for some reason while we were there it wasn't showing news. We asked a man to take our picture who was ...
Wall to Wall
... There was either a steep walk up hill to it, or a chair lift up and a Toboggan back down! The walk up would not have really bothered me, however the way back down, looked awesome, there was no way i was missing out on that! The wall itself was indeed spectacular, it was just unfortunate it was such a hazy day. The views of it and the surrounding mountains would have been breathtaking if you could see more than their silhouettes... maybe another time hey! We took the ...
My first day of school
... try everything, and drink as much beer as I could; it was a celebration after all so why not! After he confirmed I was satisfied with beer and frog, we decided to head back to the lab.
After the short drive back, I got acquainted with the tools, equipment and supplies in the lab. Professor Yao's lab consists of two laboratory rooms (one of which is currently being constructed) and an office. I noticed that although my lab in Florida has ...
The Great Wall
... for drinks and dinner.
Yashaw is huge! After an hour or two I managed to get what I wanted from there, mainly what I was after was the tea buds that open up into flowers when you brew them and a I heart B J tee ;-)
We then had a late dinner at Karalya Spice House followed by icecream at Coldstone where we shared a large tub between the three of us.
Afterwards Mandy took us out for a couple of cocktails at this cute little bar 'Revolution' ...
Octoberfest!
... rituals, my fellow meal-partakers acted like you would expect a group of close college students to act: raucous, happy, and full of fun. They all knew English pretty well, easily better than my Chinese skills, but they mostly spoke Chinese, so I only had half a clue what was going on most of the time. Many pictures were taken of all sorts of poses at the tables, from drinking tea to drinking beer, eating duck to making funny faces. At the end of the dinner ...