This morning I woke up early not being able to sleep! 2:30 AM.
We then went down for breakfast at 6:30, wanting to eat. After we did so we wondered the streets of Beijing, very beautiful place. What I found odd was that there pollution was no badder than any other city. Though I did see people with masks on, covering there nose and mouth, to protect them from breathing pollution in.
Then at 9:00 we all gathered in the lobby to go see the great wall! But ended up going to go see Tianamen square, and the Forbidden City. And other sight seeing things, but not the great wall .Which we will be doing tomorrow beause Zhou had to go to CCAA to finish some paper work .CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs). Zhou keep pushing begging people aside, it was scary for me.
Tianamen square is very beautiful, there was a very long line to go see Mao's tomb. We did not wait in line to see his tomb because we where on a very tight schedule. And when we stoped to take a picture of our group in Tianaman Square, a HUGE bunch of Chinese people gathered in front of us taking pictures of our large group, it was like we where FAMOUS, we laughed and smiled.
In the Forbidden city it was just amazing, it went on, and on, and on. The sight of it was just wonderful, and I got asked to have pictures taken with people and me, total complete strangers wanting to have a picture taken with ME (Bethany), it was like I was famous. We went on a Rickshaw ride, this was one of my favorite things I was amazed that someone could pull us with a bike and themselves. We got to see old Beijing on this ride, and then ate lunch at a mans house who prepared us a traditional Chinese meal. We had Date, Chicken, Oranges, Water lilly shoots, rice, dumplings, and alot of other food, all delicious!!! And yes we ate this all with chopsticks. Oh yeah and on the rickshaw ride there was a congested area and our rickshaw guy hit a man. I can not tell you how many times i thought we or someone else was going to get hit by a car. Everything went well and in two days we go to Nanchang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait!
We then went down for breakfast at 6:30, wanting to eat. After we did so we wondered the streets of Beijing, very beautiful place. What I found odd was that there pollution was no badder than any other city. Though I did see people with masks on, covering there nose and mouth, to protect them from breathing pollution in.
Then at 9:00 we all gathered in the lobby to go see the great wall! But ended up going to go see Tianamen square, and the Forbidden City. And other sight seeing things, but not the great wall .Which we will be doing tomorrow beause Zhou had to go to CCAA to finish some paper work .CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs). Zhou keep pushing begging people aside, it was scary for me.
Tianamen square is very beautiful, there was a very long line to go see Mao's tomb. We did not wait in line to see his tomb because we where on a very tight schedule. And when we stoped to take a picture of our group in Tianaman Square, a HUGE bunch of Chinese people gathered in front of us taking pictures of our large group, it was like we where FAMOUS, we laughed and smiled.
In the Forbidden city it was just amazing, it went on, and on, and on. The sight of it was just wonderful, and I got asked to have pictures taken with people and me, total complete strangers wanting to have a picture taken with ME (Bethany), it was like I was famous. We went on a Rickshaw ride, this was one of my favorite things I was amazed that someone could pull us with a bike and themselves. We got to see old Beijing on this ride, and then ate lunch at a mans house who prepared us a traditional Chinese meal. We had Date, Chicken, Oranges, Water lilly shoots, rice, dumplings, and alot of other food, all delicious!!! And yes we ate this all with chopsticks. Oh yeah and on the rickshaw ride there was a congested area and our rickshaw guy hit a man. I can not tell you how many times i thought we or someone else was going to get hit by a car. Everything went well and in two days we go to Nanchang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait!
Wow!!! It sounds like you are having a wonderful experience. (You must be exhausted from the trip.)
ReplyDeleteI shared the information from your recent blog with mom and she asked me to leave this message:" I cannot wait for your return and God Bless. Love, mom. "
Take Care, Chris