So Im back from the Hospital (Beijing University Hospital 3) and had to get my blood tested again to see what was wrong with me....and the conclusion is ....I have a fever apparently that's been stuck with me for 2 weeks now. I don't really think Beijing likes me that much. I just got back from the Beijing Opera where we saw 'Farewell my Concubine' and some random bank robbing skit which was kinda awesome because of the acrobats in it. We more or less dressed up even though we didn't need to but at least I wasn't doing it alone. I borrowed Nancy's dress while my roomie borrowed mine lol it was kinda funny.

The past few days have been just me in bed, eating my meals and napping lol like a true panda =_____________=ll On friday we had our midterm and our first skit was done. Guess what skit we did---going to the zoo lol I was in my panda hat just for kicks and giggles...This marks the end of our first 'semester' and the beginning of our last semster lol aka I got 4 more weeks left until I leave this place! YES! i mean booo lol I don't really know yet, haven't made up my mind bout beijing being thumbs up or down due to certain circumstances. I take the days that comes as is then try to figure it out.

I finally got through FB now so yay! But it's almost 1am so I guess I should sleep seeing how I am a sick person w/ a constant fever! lol At least it provided me warmth at the opera house lol

Sim Out.

Hi all,

I live! Today is Saturday and our cultural excursion is to the Temple of Heaven. My expectations would be that it'd be like really grand and what-not, but alas, not to my expectations. Regardless, we had to be at the Library at 8am to get there early and beat the crowds...We arrived and walked to get there just to meet....A SHIT LOAD OF PEOPLE...as per usual. We proceeded into the different sections of the temple and took touristy pictures and goofy pictures. We had random people taking pictures of us when we did our group photos, this is a normal occurence lol. While we were at the cultural museum on Wednesday, a little boy asked my roomie what her name was and quickly snapped a picture of her xD .... Oh China.

Just now coming back from the chung(er) place, I held the door for a bunch of girls, and they said thanks in mando..But one of the girls said 4 in Italian, I thought it was Spanish so I pressed it for them. They were impressed and we had a good laugh, and then when they left they said ciao! so I knew they were Italians. It was a nice encounter. Although a few days ago, a woman who seems to be leaving the dorm she asked the people in the elevator I was in if we wanted to adopt a hair curler lol .... Life brings you interesting encounters.

Sorry I don't have much to say because I have to start thinking about a skit and studying for our mid-term on Friday also prepare for our class on Mon...sooooo STUDY STUDY STUDY!

Sim out.

So I was recently sick, like twice hahaha...Fever is like my best buddy right now but Im getting better...It's almost mid-term time here so got lots to study..We have a 3 person skit next friday and our midterm on top of that..But before next week, this saturday we're going to the temple of heaven and look around. On Tuesday after individual tutoring, we learned Tai Chi which was interesting, but damnnn it was slowwww! This Wednesday my roomie, our tutor and I went to the Beijing Expo 2010 to look at cultural and historical artifacts for a few hours. It was interesting although we were really tired of walking around after an hour. We didn't really do much afterwards, just dinner and the normal night rituals...









This blog is short sorry, but I will make it up during the weekend :)


Sim Out.

Forbidden Palace, Happy Lemon, Benko, and Silk Street to come!

Saturday 7/11

We had to go to the Forbidden Palace. We left school at 8am, got to the Forbidden Palace 30 or so mins later. We waited for a while because the teachers were getting our tickets and there was mad people there. We finally got inside the Palace and whoaaaa, it’s really pretty and a longgg walk to finish. Since today was the weekend, a lot of people came out to visit it and it was really hot. The mugginess didn’t help us with the walking around, but I did bring a fan so it helped a bit. After walking around for a good 2ish hrs we headed back to school and got food. We all stopped at Happy Lemon first, which is like the Chinese version of Jamba Juice but BETTER! Their mango & orange slushie is sooo good, we all got 6 orders of that lol . After eating at the viet place again, we headed to Benko once again to get Nancy something..One of the workers from the store recognized me because I do believe this is like my 10^th time there =___________=ll .. After that we left to come back to shower and rest, we were suppose to go to Xi Dan, but people were napping so a 4 girls and I went to Wu Dao Ko’er ghetto mart to shop instead. Now I’m back and writing this blog while watching Fantastic 4 with my roomie on a Korean channel in China…Tomorrow is resting, Silk Market and homework time…

Until next time..

Sim Out.

PANDAS!! :D

~Fri 7/10/09

So I went to Propaganda tonight with the girls, and enjoyed a few drinks (even though I was told not to…sorry this is due to lack of FB that I forgot that…lol) Before Propaganda, it was Friday so after a long day of review session, oral presentation and 3 chapter exams we were suppose to head to the zoo..We (that means Marie, Lucy, WenWen, Nancy, Li Laoshi and me) ate some good sandwiches before heading to the zoo in a taxi. We got to the zoo and it was blazing hot! We got tickets and went into the zoo to find some PANDAS! I was very excited; we got to see all the pandas at the zoo. One was sooo pang pang (chubby) and was on a tree branch scratching his nose with his foot. We also saw some sleepy pandas in the zoo…

After looking at cute cuddly pandas, we went to the ‘zoo market’ to go shopping. This market was HUGEEEE! It stretched from one end to the other for like a span of 4 Avenue blocks. We walked for a lonnnng time until we finished with the span of the whole market. Eventually we went back to the dorm and we were all starving. We went to the Viet place in the mall and had a big meal, went to Benko to get another stuffed doll for my roomie..I got a smirking one that people says look like me lol …I love that store. After we stuffed ourselves and went to the supermarket to stock up on food. Then we come back and was going to head to Propaganda for some drinks and dancing. My roomie wasn’t feeling too well so I came back with her after two drinks and we chatted for a bit before sleeping.

Sim out

2 weeks!, a few sprinkles of pervertedness, and FOOD!

It's now the middle of the week and I'm still alive..It's Wednesday so I figured I'm 1/2 way there before another weekend..I have 6 more weeks left until I get back to the States and see mostly all you guys (more or less...) I've been studying my butt off but been trying to have fun at the same time. Today was fun, I was really happy to begin the day (for once) and did the whole 4hrs of drilling vocabulary into our brains and had pizza w/ bacardi breezer for lunch... [ Yes, you read right...] Then went to tutoring sessions for an hour and right after we had calligraphy class that lasted until 5:30pm. Before we went back to the dorm I took a picture of the trash can that said---> Smoking kills sperm.... LOL We immediately went back to our rooms to drop off our heavy ass book, went to the bank and was starving! After the whole bank ordeal, we headed straight to the Korean BBQ place that had great food.. On the way there, we passed a tiny little puppy that was white and had brown spots and just wiggled its butt while it walked..It kind of looked like a tiny cat with no leash..lol This is what China offers haha. When we were near the Korean BBQ place, I passed by a cafe that was called ' HUMP CAFE' LOL... As soon as we got to the Korean BBQ we ordered mad food! We had chopped pork (3 plates worth), 1 plate of ox tongue, 1 plate of beef, 2 bowls of Spicy Ramen Korean style and 5 bowls of rice..On the side we had 3 bottles of beer. We basically chatted for a long time about random things (mostly inappropriate comments) ...We ate for like 2 hours then headed towards Bridge Cafe for some good drinks..It was basically 10pm by the time we headed back to the dorm...Now it's 1am and Im off to bed after a long day... Friday is PANDAS!!!!!!!!! Saturday is Forbidden City... Sunday is well...death lol

Sim Out..

Great Wall of China!

Hello all,

Today is July 4th so you guys will probably be setting up your lawn chairs out where ever you guys are and resting w/ several plates of yummy food and waiting for the fireworks....while I climbed the GREAT WALL OF CHINA! I woke up today bright and early at 6:30am to get ready for the trip ahead. Shower, sunscreen SPF 70, bug spray, bottles of water, extra shirt, umbrella and of course a camera to take our hard work climbing the ancient structure. We got to the bus at 7:30am which left on time for 2hrs to reach the bottom of the wall. People were either asleep or awake snapping pictures of the trip to the wall. I was busy taking pictures so I didn't really sleep, but was just anxious to see one of the great wonders of the world---which can be seen

As I stepped out of the bus, it was surreal because everywhere was buses and little souvenir shops selling 'i have climbed the great wall' t-shirts and Mao paraphernalia..We had to make rounds to the bathroom because I doubt there be any on the actual wall. We got our tickets and began our climb up....oh dear god! We were sooooo lucky we went before the crowd and the sun rising over our heads. As we began our climb, sweat began to drop and accumulate! The climb itself I lost track of time, I was just thinking oh man, please let the next stairs led to the actual wall..Eventually we reached the wall itself and it was definitely worth it. The breeze, the view and just the epic-ness of it all was amazing! It was really an experience to be on top of that structure and to see what people might has saw all those years ago and follow the steps of the wall...(it's really slanted!)

Since we were there about 9:30am the sun wasn't out quite yet so it wasn't that bad, although I do believe I got some tanning done. There were brief moments of breeze when ever we needed it so it was really nice. There was a cute little kitty cat that meowed at us as we were climbing the wall..I was sad that I could not pet it because I did not know where it had been..but it was quite cute regardless..As we were making our way on the wall, we of course took massive amounts of pictures with us being silly :) What is a visit to the great wall of china without some silly/martial arts pictures lol Last year I have heard tales of giant mutant bugs that followed them and mosquitoes up the wazoo, but we were lucky enough to only have the mutant bugs following us but no bites.. As we were getting close to going down to the bus again, we took jumping pictures although I epically failed that...I never do good jumping pictures although I do like our group martial art poses :D As we were making our way down, mad people started heading up the wall so we were lucky to get there early enough to take some nice pictures without that many people. When we reached the bottom near where our bus was parked, I bargained for an awesome panda hat and some postcards lol Once we all got on the bus, we were all more or less knocked out until we reached school again..Talk about wipe out. I have uploaded the pictures along with other China photos on facebook so you guys can check it out.. (here are some)

The camel we saw right off the bus

Guardian Cat!

We made it up the Wall! :D

Please don't shoot..

Some martial arts pics on the Great Wall, of course! :P

Overboard!

Victory is MINE... puhahaha xD

And something for the way back... :D

Until the next time...

Sim Passed OUT!

First test, puppies, and THE GREAT WALL ...coming soon.

So today was my first day of exam---thank god that's over with..I can actually rest for like 1 hr... After one hour of rest, I had to meet up with a friend and we basically went shopping, ate shabu shabu, drank tsing tao and shopped some more...I did the more exploring and walking ever all in one day!!! It's kinda sad that I've been here for a week now and JUST went exploring..

While exploring i saw the cutest little puppy!! It was white and had light brown spots on it and it was just the cutest thing alive! I sooo wanted to run away with it :) then as I continued to walk down I saw a cute lil boy running around in a mohawk! A legit one! It was great, I kind of wish I had a picture of him just doing his thing with his cool mohawk.. then eventually on the next block I saw another little boy with a left cut shape haircut on the front of his head...(you have to be chinese to understand this.....) it was just too funny :P

Then went to a nice pho place for dinner and then FINALLY headed back to my room at like 10pm...Night life at Wu is popping lol...I have to get up at 6ish to prep for the GREAT WALL OF CHINAAAAAAA! Yes, I will be climbing the great wall on 4thh of July hahaha I find that really funny..It'll take at least 2 hours to get to the great wall, probably an hour or so climbing the damn thing...Another few hours running around and taking pictures then climbing down and passing out in the bus....oh yeah, great independence day---kind of hard core work out if you ask me...not much eating at all lol

Have a great 4th of July peoples and I'll post as soon as I rest from the major climbing on China's most historical site.

Sim out...