Friday, October 23, 2009

Being the procrastinator I am, of course I would blog in late October about my summer trip to Beijing.

There are so many vivid scenes and memories. Here's just a quick recap of some of them:
- buying 包子 (baozi) and soymilk every morning for breakfast!
- sneaking out at midnight to light fireworks
- pedal-boating in the Summer Palace
- climbing on top of the cliffs on the Yellow Mountains and gazing downwards toward a vertical plummet of thousands of feet
- doing taichi on the Great Wall
- going clubbing for the first time, but instead ending up just taking care of drunk classmates
- sleeping in an overnight train
- having 14+ mosquito bites on my legs
- haggling something down 90% of its original price in a flea market
- squatting outside eating durian with our hands
- giving a commencement speech in Chinese
- bumping into a high school friend on the same subway station, same time, same train, same subway entrance in all of China (when does that ever happen?!)
- Peking Duck. enough said.
- having the same Chinese song stuck in my head for 6 weeks
- trying to share the gospel in Chinese
- McDonald's taro pies!
- having a photoshoot with 4 friends, wearing the same exact fake dress we haggled from the flea market.
- staying up all night in our hotel rooms during the last night, just chatting and sharing with friends I've made for 7 whole weeks.

Overall, an unforgettable experience. 真的是一個難忘的回憶!

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