Yiju Hotel Beijing

... of student life. We spoke with the English department teachers who were visiting. One asked me if we have "moral education" in the United States. From what I can gather, moral education is a combination of instruction on how to be a good citizen, how to make responsible decisions, and perhaps some communist philosophy. I suppose we have some degree of this through government classes or family life education or the like, depending on the school district ...

... now, eventually commemorating all those who had laid down their lives for China, starting out with the First Opium War until the founding of the People's Republic. The Monument brandishes an inscription in old Mao's handwriting, reading "eternal glory to the people's heroes!" up front, and another one on the back by one of his most prominent sidekicks, Zhou Enlai. The Zhou's thing was obviously a product of the same workshop as the one up front, which basically meant merely an ...

... et par i den rette størrelse. Beijing er et paradis for en svag shoppingsjæl som mig, så jeg kommer virkelig til at skulle holde mig selv i korte tøjler. Der er bare så meget lækkert tøj og til ingen penge, men jeg håber, at jeg også på dette område bliver nærig på kinesisk. (Det er jo også lidt dyrt at skulle betale 75 kr. for en skræddersyet skjorte...hm, det skulle eftersigende kunne gøres meget billigere udenfor byen). Vi spiste aftensmad i det samme ...

... free of charge as has been done at other Olympics. These include 10,000 Chinese-English Bibles, 30,000 Chinese-English New Testaments and 50,000 tracts containing the four gospels. All are being printed at the Amity Printing Company with the Bible Societies paying for the paper. Amity is the only company in China allowed to publish and distribute the Bible. Its capacity was recently doubled from six million to 12 million items per year. Its Bibles are only allowed ...

... Giuliano, o fas une cjaminade lungje dilunc dai bars de Sanlitun e podopo ancjemo plui in ju. Une fumatele grise e cuviarz le citat (tant par gambia) e e je une lus une vore particolar. Un cines che al parte indenant un triciclo stracjamat di polistirolo che al sta cjantant mi passe denant. Tal gris di Pechin, ancje un grum di polistirolo blanc al fas contrast. Dopo sedi stat a compra cuatri strafaniçs al marcjat, o cjapi al metro e vie ...

... amos y bajábamos los desniveles por las cientos de escaleras, a veces se hacia mas ancha otras se estrechaba pero sin corte alguno se perdía de vista en la cordillera. El hambre rugía en nuestros estómagos y las dos horas y media ya casi habían pasado. El sol apretaba con menos fuerza cuando nos disponíamos a bajar. Para mi sorpresa la bajada iba a ser muy excitante. No volvíamos en cabinas, ni por escaleras, ni sendas sobre burros. La bajada hasta el valle era en tobogán. Si si ...

... some money from the ATM. On her way back the taxi driver from the day before was waiting for us to give us back 100 yen which he believed we had overpaid. She engaged him to drive us around that day, an excellent decision given our day. We headed to the post office and after some effort finally had the suitcase down to the required 20kg including packaging. This meant the suitcase itself had barely anything in it given the packaging weighed 2kg and the suitcase 7. The balance ...

... long and huge, so you can imagine with all our luggage it was a pain... Half way down we wanted to get a taxi but no way - they weren't allowed to stop so we didnt have a choice but keep on walking. Puhhhhhhh In the hotel we prompt fell asleep - Jet Lag hello! At night we were fit as a fiddle and went down to the street to have our first Chinese beer for 3 RMB and chicken sticks...yummy! The next day we went by foot exploring the huge city and once ...

... of the glass. But at the same time, Dan (my RD and the trip leader) was discussing how odd it must be to work there and be put on display all of the time. It seemed a little bit like a human zoo. Me, personally, I hate when people look over my shoulder when I'm working, especially writing. So for that to be my job, to be expected not only to make things but to be watched as I make them, I'd struggle with that. After a brief tour of the work areas, we were escorted ...

... morning, two girls and I got up super early (6am!) to walk to the nearby Purple Bamboo Park to work on a participant observation project for class. Munching on a shangdong pancake on the walk and being able to sit and watch older couples dance in the park is definitely going down in the book as favorite things about China. The pictures are unfortunately polluted by the haze, but it gives them a nice surreal appeal :) Enjoy!