beijing on a thursday
so i have officially started my journey.
the flight was pretty good, even considering that there were not one, not two, but THREE school groups on the flight! well actually i think one of them was for pony club or some such. the biggest one was a group of 12 or 13 year old high school students - i cannot imagine the stress of being one of the coordinators.
but yeah, so far i've had a big massive long sleep, and taken a walk around my corner of beijing. i had to sleep until midday today, mostly because i didn't get much last week, but partly because i'm now on holiday and I can. i didn't get much sleep last week because for those who don't know, my sister had a serious horse-related accident on friday last week, was rushed to the austin hospital by air, and went in for 6 hour surgery on her lower vertebrae on monday. tuesday she was looking better, but it's all been pretty distressing and stressful for the whole family and i nearly delayed my trip.
anyway, hopefully my posts will get a lot more interesting from now on!
beijing seems to be in a state of total flux at the moment, due to preparations for the beijing olympics. one of the main boulevards i walked down today had scaffolding and billboards erected flush with the street on both sides for a couple of kms - all the buildings behing the billboard facades, most of which look like they were residential and small shops, have been reduced to rubble, with a couple of shop keepers here and there still setting up their goods on what used to be their footpaths. small trade still seems to be bustling in and around the rubble though.
more soon.
kd.
the flight was pretty good, even considering that there were not one, not two, but THREE school groups on the flight! well actually i think one of them was for pony club or some such. the biggest one was a group of 12 or 13 year old high school students - i cannot imagine the stress of being one of the coordinators.
but yeah, so far i've had a big massive long sleep, and taken a walk around my corner of beijing. i had to sleep until midday today, mostly because i didn't get much last week, but partly because i'm now on holiday and I can. i didn't get much sleep last week because for those who don't know, my sister had a serious horse-related accident on friday last week, was rushed to the austin hospital by air, and went in for 6 hour surgery on her lower vertebrae on monday. tuesday she was looking better, but it's all been pretty distressing and stressful for the whole family and i nearly delayed my trip.
anyway, hopefully my posts will get a lot more interesting from now on!
beijing seems to be in a state of total flux at the moment, due to preparations for the beijing olympics. one of the main boulevards i walked down today had scaffolding and billboards erected flush with the street on both sides for a couple of kms - all the buildings behing the billboard facades, most of which look like they were residential and small shops, have been reduced to rubble, with a couple of shop keepers here and there still setting up their goods on what used to be their footpaths. small trade still seems to be bustling in and around the rubble though.
more soon.
kd.
posted by kd | 5:09 pm
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but the important questions - are there bananas in beijing?
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