back-iddy back
All right. The Beijing tour was "worthwhile", except it turns out I lost my greenstone neckace thingy which is a bit of a bummer. I was quite attached to it. But yeah, on the whole it was easily worth the money and the time (And the cost of a spiritual token). It was made up entirely of teachers my age, around about 40 of us in all. Some of them were quite clicky on account of having been here a while and also hanging around in the same local community. A lot of making friends here seems to be about where you're physically located. This hit home to me on Sunday when I failed to get to Migliore by bus (again) and I realised that it took me 1/2 and hour to not get to where i wanted to go. Discouraged, I caught a taxi home and spent the rest of the arvo in a PCbang.
Bt the trip: right, here's the itinerary:
Landed Beijing at 1pm (beautiful sunshine 27degs) went to see the Temple of Heaven (a bit disappointing) and had our first taste of hawkers - pretty freaky. It's bizarre how insistent and persistent these cats are - you'd think that if i didn't want a t-shirt from that guy, I'm not gonna want one from you but they do not think that way at all, no sir. Anyway, after the TOH we went to dinner at this cool restaurant which had dancers all up around the tables and shit and 60c beers, all lazy susan foods - was a real cool scene. From there onto the Shaolin-Monks "Story of Kung-Fu". Better show than when I saw it Welly (sorry Todd) bt still non-plussed by their "breaking stuff over the head" routine.
Next days was Tiananmen Square where I was too scared to get a photo of me in front of a cop car; then the Forbidden Palace, to which i had to find my own way after being deserted by the group while looking for someone else. FP was a pretty cool: gate, courtyard, gate, courtyard, gate etc..... and then you're out. Chinese people have this fascination with big tall gates everywhere, TOH was ful of em. From FP to the Summer Palace. It was nice and we rode a boat across a lake.
I think I might have forgotten something and I don't feel like writing here anymore. Maybe put the rest in later. Bye!
Bt the trip: right, here's the itinerary:
Landed Beijing at 1pm (beautiful sunshine 27degs) went to see the Temple of Heaven (a bit disappointing) and had our first taste of hawkers - pretty freaky. It's bizarre how insistent and persistent these cats are - you'd think that if i didn't want a t-shirt from that guy, I'm not gonna want one from you but they do not think that way at all, no sir. Anyway, after the TOH we went to dinner at this cool restaurant which had dancers all up around the tables and shit and 60c beers, all lazy susan foods - was a real cool scene. From there onto the Shaolin-Monks "Story of Kung-Fu". Better show than when I saw it Welly (sorry Todd) bt still non-plussed by their "breaking stuff over the head" routine.
Next days was Tiananmen Square where I was too scared to get a photo of me in front of a cop car; then the Forbidden Palace, to which i had to find my own way after being deserted by the group while looking for someone else. FP was a pretty cool: gate, courtyard, gate, courtyard, gate etc..... and then you're out. Chinese people have this fascination with big tall gates everywhere, TOH was ful of em. From FP to the Summer Palace. It was nice and we rode a boat across a lake.
I think I might have forgotten something and I don't feel like writing here anymore. Maybe put the rest in later. Bye!
posted by wu-wei at 2:03 pm
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wow! thanks man!
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