There was supposed to be a video here from the day before yesterday, when we went to the forbidden city. Actually, I didn't go there since I've seen it before, but I went in the same cab and did some shopping instead.
I had to cut the video into smaller parts to be able to transfer it from my camera to the PC and now I don's seem to be able to upload the pieces to blogspot. Oh well.
Yesterday, I and Carlos went for a Go market.
I don't think we found it, but we did find a place that were selling Go stuff. I was a bit hung over, so I didn't buy anything but it was fun.
Later we went to a fancy restaurant to celebrate Rune's birthday. Meiying brought two friends (cute, of course) and Jonas brought his brother and a friend, so it was a bit hard to fit everybody around the table.
The food was not that good, but the prices were high. One dish had tiny fish in it, Su Yang thought they were sprouts until I showed him the eyes.
Today, I've been walking around in the neighbourhood a bit, on the other side of the mall I found a neat area with a small market and some restaurants and shops. It's funny how next to really modern, and allmost sterile blocks there usually is a block with old one-storey buildings and really cool little shops and restaurants. Looks like you suddenly are in some small village.
Seems it's gonna take some time for the video(s) to upload (I really should learn how the camera works) so I may as well continue writing, allthough I don't really have anything to say.
It's funny how I allways want to move to Beijing for good every time I'm here, even this year, with the crappy weather, I really really like it here.
I've been looking a bit on prices for appartments and it seems that the cheapest ones go for around €90 000. That is in this area, which supposedly is a bit expensive. If prices drops after the Olympic games (and I believe they will) I may very well buy one, that would be soo cool :-)
Well, maybe I won't do that, but it still would be awesome.
Oh and Chinese girls are simply tooo beautiful, especially those wearing a uniform.
These dudes are high above the ground.
Grass on the roofs are needed for the buildings to be "luxuriant".
Across the road from Luxuriant City, it looked like this.
It lookes really misserable, but I don't think these people are really poor.
Building new and tearing down the old.
Some old houses are sometimes left alone.
Playing after the lesson.
Eat and drink ftw.
Though you may get a bit tired afterwards...
Apparantly, the landlord left two turtles in our appartment. MeiYing gave them some meat and vegetables to eat. Poor creatures...
MeiYing and eq.
Dinner yesterday.
Unfortunately, you never get all dishes served at the same time so hard th get a good picture of it all...
Opening the bowls reveals a plastic board, but unless the ones I've seen before in similar sets, the boards are blue! Disgusting!
Quite often, old buildings like this are found in the middle of a much more "cleaned up" areas...
Picking herbs (I guess) right by the highway.
Near the teaching area again.
Another couple of hutong houses.
Some construction workers get to sleep in tents like these, others sleep on the sidewalk.
Another picture of electrical wires in the sky. I can't stop looking at these...
We sort of planned to make a movie in 2005 "The road to WuMart", well here's the sequel that won't get filmed either "WuMart the Hypermarket".
I guess the food in the cupboards needs heating too.
Why put the radiators underneath the windows when you can have then in the cupboards?
Pretty close to the teaching area, a Hutong block is allmost totally torn down. This is one of the few houses left standing, and people still live in it...
Same house from the other side.
A couple of hundred meter up the same road, some sort of shop is open. People probably live in there as well.
And the last couple of houses left in the block still in use.
Playing Xiang Qi on the sidewalk, unfortunately Go (Wei Qi) is not a game played in the streets. Would have been fun to play them, but I suck at Xiang Qi.
Across the street from what used to be a Hutong block, some work still remains. This probably was Hutongs too a year or so ago, or fields where the people who lived in the Hutongs grew vegetables.
Li Siyuan, Meiyin and her sister, whos leaving for Japan soon as a exchange student.
Su Yangs mother making dumplings. I normally don't like dumplings much, but these were awesome.
Things are getting into place at the teaching appartment...
Eat, eat, eat!
Haggle, haggle haggle!
Teaching appartment with stuff we bought.
Teaching appartment with network.
Well, what is there to say, I couldn't get a good picture of it but trees are commonly used to hold the wires as well.
Another post.
Cool educational center for children, with a planetarium and observatory.
Funny bike.
The main lecturing room. It's still a week to go, so allmost no furniture yet.
Closest to camera of course Gong Bao Ji Ding, then a delicious seafood dish, some tofu that I didn't try and a couple of plates with vegetable dishes.
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