2008年7月10日星期四

3-day tour of Beijing begins tomorrow!




We just got back from another awesome dinner of rice, veggies, chicken with walnuts, mutton onion explosion (there was cilantro in it! yum!) and a delicious beer. Again we stumbled into a local restaurant, ordered from a menu full of pictures, pointed and hoped for the best. The menu was pretty entertaining--there were some pretty lost in translation moments: salivating chicken, Grandma's hands, delicious golden mushroom spicy...
(Above pics: the mutton onion explosion and remains from the bucket of rice--next time I will take the pictures BEFORE we ravenously dig in!)
Tomorrow we begin our 3-day of Beijing...it has all been arranged by BOGOC. All the international ONS volunteers will be touring Beijing and the outskirts. Our professors tell us it's a pretty expensive and exciting tour. Some of the highlights: a tour of a state-of-the-art sewage facility (sounds interesting, and it must be pretty cool if they are taking hundreds of us to see it), Peking duck dinner, visit to a rural farm, GREAT WALL!, Winter Palace, Summer Palace and Peking Opera!
We are all excited to get to know the city and the surroundings better...hopefully the tour will improve our overall knowledge of where we are in/around the city. We will be out of here everyday by 8 and not back until 8 or 9 at night....definitely bringing Yahtzee and a deck of cards for the bus!


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