Our last day of class with the 2nd group of students was great. We started learning a popular chinese song by the name of "Peach Flowers" by Ar Niu. My guess is that he is the equivalent of Justin Timberlake over here...we also played several games with the kids and at the end of class we were given new Chinese names. Mine is Gao Wen Shan, which roughly translates to gentle mountain, the kids explained that the character Gao is a very honorable characteristic to have among the Chinese so Im proud to have that as a name.
Friday July 21st - 9pm Beijing time...7am in Colorado, I stumble into a bookstore with a nice poster for the 7th Harry Potter book hanging up in the doorway. Being that it was not nearly midnight yet and I was anticipating there to be a slim amount of books available in china I wasnt expecting much. However what do you know, there is a single U.K. Edition copy of book 7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sitting on the front shelf. $208RMB later and I was a very happy dude. Somehow I miraculously managed to get a copy of the book a good 18 hours before I would have in Colorado. Im so stoked.
Anyways...The next day after class we were off to Tianjin for some sightseeing as well as to meet some new friends. Little did we know we were about to become the guests of honor at a going away party for our new friend Mary. The food was exquisite, and we ate like kings all weekend. The family's hospitality was tremendous, they showed us around Tianjin. What an awesome city. The financial district was very modern with some awesome architecture and the best part was it wasnt terribly hot outside and not very crowded for the 3rd largest city in China. In all fairness that was just the financial district that im referring to. Later in the day we were able to see old Tianjin, the culture street in the city. It was awesome, tons of shops to bargin for things at. Pat got some chopsticks, I got a nice painting and Diogo got some cotton candy. All in all our stay there was very nice, we really enjoyed it there.
Today we are back in Beijing and get to plan our next adventure. Today I believe we are going into the city on our own so that in itself will be quite exciting. There are plenty more stories to come so stay tuned. Also we are uploading a lot more pictures to the site I mentioned before, so check that out too!
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