China Summer 2008
// June 22nd, 2008 // 8 Comments » // Personal
Just got home from the Vancouver Airport, more photos coming soon. Here’s the past four weeks in brief!
- REMINISCENCE: The feeling of reaching one’s childhood home is indescribable; it will always be home in a sense no matter how far I travel or long I’m away
- EXHAUST: Rush hour on a 6 lane Beijing avenue lasts til 9 PM (holy bejeezes!)
- METRO: a electronic card is Beijing’s all access metro card; most buses cost 40 cents ($0.05), now there’s incentive to ride public transport; way better than Vancouver’s system; two flatscreen TVs on every bus
- LUXURY: Stayed at two four star hotels and both of them had bathrooms with a CLEAR GLASS WALL looking into the room… oh the initial embarrassing incidents…
- OBSESSIONS: Was given the honor to come up with an English name for my little cousin. Any guesses? Hehe, won’t keep you hanging, he’s now my little cousin Harry! I plan to name my other little cousin Ron XD
- TRAVELING: Places visited: Beijing for a week @ grandpa’s house, Changsha in Hunan province for a few days, and Donggong in Liaoning for two weeks @ other grandma’s house
- READJUST: Still recovering from the most bloody annoying cold ever, no fevers thank god
- LABOUR: The maid who takes care of my grandma and cleans and cooks is 60 years old, wow, cultural differences i guess
- HAGGLING: Spent about 1000 yuan ($150) and bought bags and bags of new clothes
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Gotta start uploading photos…
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