New friends

Shopping for things in the imported food section, because we are having spaghetti.

My fellow American, South Carolina in the House.

The two people helping me the most, my roommate and her boyfriend. They are from Gabon, and thier Chinese is very very good!

This is a picture after 6 hours of braiding hair. An we're still smiling!

Interesting things to know about China

This is the land of counterfeit, need I say more?

Think about this one okay. Here in China it's winter time, not like San Diego winter, but like Northern California, Washington State winter. Now this is only one of many, many, many baby butts throughout the region. But I can't even imagine walking around with by butt out in 35 degree weather.

There is a history behind the baby butt epidemic which has a lot to do with the Asian toilet, which I will cover at a later date.

Just because we know and love Dan!

My new look for school

I'm really here!

Detour

Don't get me wrong Xi'an is a nice enough place, the Terracotta Warriors are a must see, but we were just not feeling it for this time of year. It was just a little too, too, something that we couldn't quite label. Later for Xi'an.

Random Beijing

Day two in Beijing was a lot slow than day one, mainly because we were too tired to do anything major like the Great Wall 6 hour trek. So we got shots of other things and explored.

Seahorse, Scorpin, Starfish and Squid....yummmy!

北京 Here it is finally!

This was shot on our first day in China. We started our day about 6:30am CST by 4:00 pm we were way past tired. At least there was sunshine, we wouldn't understand how much we should have appreciated it until a couple day's later in Xi'an.