Rock Pillows

Well here I am again. I put up some pictures from my last post earlier today, so take a look at those if you haven’t. I still need to upload all my pictures to a different site so everyone can see the galleries, but that will have to wait until next week.

Not too much happened this week. On Tuesday there was a schedule power outage for our entire neighborhood from 8am to 5pm. I don’t know what the restaurants and shops on our block did about their frozen or refrigerated stuff. Speaking of frozen things, Chinese people are obsessed with popsicles. You can’t go anywhere without seeing people eating them or selling them. They are also a lot better than popsicles in the US. I hade a pineapple one that had pieces of pineapple in it and it only cost 12 cents.

Last night right when I was in bed about to go to sleep I had my first serious conversation in Chinese with my roommate. He was mainly the only one speaking, but I did my best to defend my position. He told me that I shouldn’t go to the gym so much because I should be going to other pretty places in Beijing. I told him that I like to do it and it makes me feel good, but he said I have a good figure and that there is no reason to. He also said that it makes you feel very tired and your muscles sore. This is somewhat true because this is the first week I started going since getting here, so I still haven’t worked my way back to my normal routine.

The big news this week is that tomorrow night we will be camping on the Great Wall after hiking on it for 5 hours. Then on Sunday we are waking up at 5:30am to see the sunrise. I’ve been to the wall before and the part we were on got pretty steep towards the end, but this time we will be going on un-restored sections, so we will have to get off the wall and walk along the hill sides. I’ll probably be taking a lot of pictures, so hopefully I can setup a gallery somewhere after we get back. Again, leave any questions if you have any about China and I can answer them in my posts. See you next week.