Super 8 (Beijing Xueyuan Road)
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The trip here and my first taste of Beijing
Well getting here was not so bad. Rodney took me too the airport in the morning and when we weighed in my luggage is was some 25 lbs over so I had Rodney take a bunch of stuff home with him. Sorry about that! After that I said a sad good bye to Rodney I went through security and waited for my plane to Washington, D.C. I swear the thing was run by …
First full day
So today I got up at 6 am and called a few people. Around 7:15 I decided to take to the streets I wandered all over but made sure to keep close to the main roads that I knew from my excursion yesterday. It was cold and rainy the whole day. I decided to go to the "hyper-mart" Wu mart. A very interesting place sort of like a Walmart but everything is …
Money DOES Grow on Trees!
... our parents ever said about money not growing on trees.
Today The Wall is visited by people from all over the world. They stop and take pictures of the mountains and The Wall as it snakes on for miles on end. But this Great Wall was once used for defense and protection. It has always intrigued me to learn of the ways that people have tried to protect themselves from enemies. ...
Happy "Crappy" Valley!!
Woke up early again at 05:45 am despite not needing to be up until 07.15 (maybe today I was too excited over the prospect of a theme park!!) and we caught the subway and then a bus to the park gates with the help of a very kind Chinese girl! Tickets were 200 yuan about 20 quid, a bargain for one whole day of fun!! First up we rode an awesome flying coaster through a huge mythological style mountain with huge peaks where you dived in between nooks ...
Homecoming.
... judge America or Americans based off of say New York and New Yorkers. That would just be ignorant. But one should also understand that Chinese people are very consistent in terms of actions, mannerisms, and sayings across the board. Even with major dialect changes. Whereas in America, our big salad bowl nation, is accustomed to having different traditions, sayings, mannerisms all over the place. Beijing is a place I will, undoubtedly, be returning to. So I'm not depressed to leave, as ...