BEIJING
February 23, 2002
Olympic Garden
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| Attempted to go to The Ethnic Park but it was already closed | Olympic Garden - not sure if this is where the Olympics might be held. | West Entrance to the Olympic Garden - you either have to be a member or pay to get in. | No idea - figured since we were walking through for free then I should take some pictures =P | One of the stadiums, I suppose =) | Another view of the stadium | A billboard with an aerial view of the Olympic Garden. |
March 09, 2002
Hu Tongs (alley ways), Hua Hai, and Train Station
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| Hou Hai Lake | Hu Tongs (Old Fashioned House) | More Hu Tongs
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Street Food | Public Playground
(Notice how adults are there too)
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Co-Worker, Andrew, playing around | Andrew, Veronica, and Drew - background: typical leisure activity of playing cards |
Andrew next to a guy getting his hair cut right in front of his Hu Tong - typical barbershop |
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| Andrew in front of Hu Tongs | Uhhh, notice old naked man - just swam in the lake | Notice that this is a common practice =P | Lady weaving furniture | Can you believe there's a bathroom behind there | Drew walking into tea house where we went on 3/09/02 | Bad picture: but that's not the point ---> | This is the point - the boat in the lake |
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| Beijing Train Station | Andrew and Jenny (his old Korean student) | Andrew and me: see all that luggage??? well, he's leaving China | Street view from the train station | Inside the station - usually costs 1RMB to get in if you don't have a ticket, but we just walked in | Jenny and I | Jenny and Andrew | Andrew and I right before he takes off for Russia (6 day train ride) |
March 10, 2002
Around where I live and Kai's work
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| View from inside 3 wheel car cab |
A guy riding a bike and pulling you along =) |
Costs 3RMB to take one of these | Jiu Xian Qiao Lu (nothing special, just a street) | Me in front of Kai's dad's factory |
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| Here's a better view of the company | Next to a Nestle factory | Name of the company - in case you were wondering | View of inside - see the guards =P | Another view of inside |
March 31, 2002
My Bike
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| Look!!! Me and my bike =) | My coworker, Khristien (Australian), and his bike | Map of Beijing showing the route we rode our bikes home - it took little over an hour to get home. | My friend Sean and his motorcycle - was going to give me a lift home, but someone messed with it and it wouldn't start =( |
April 30, 2002
Tulip Garden
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| My coworkers and I at the Tulip Garden | Julie and Piper | Random flowers | Some sort of performance | The back of the Forbidden City | Another view of the back |
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| Some fountain at the Tulip Garden | Another view of the fountain from the front | Some more random shots | My coworkers and I | Here we are at what could possibly be our MahJong table | Walking towards Forbidden City |
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| Looking across to Tianamen Square | Another view | and yet another view | Front view of Forbidden City | Me in front but still haven't gone inside yet | A random shot as we wait for the subway to approach |
May 4, 2002
WangFuJing - Shopping District
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| WangFuJing - a popular shopping area in Beijing; The Oriental Plaza that is here was built about a year or so ago by the richest man in Hong Kong | Kai and I walking around at WangFuJing | Kai eating at one of the street food vendors. We ordered a rice dish that was served in that log | Some very interesting food options: I'm not sure what these were | but these are grasshoppers |
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| Here's some more tasting looking treats =P | This is an idea of what one of the street vendors looks like | Anyone want some scorpion? | Can you believe some people actually eat this stuff =P | Me in front of the Drum Tower but it was closed so we didn't go inside |
May 6, 2002
Chinese Acrobats - Chaoyang Theatre - I took movie clips during some parts of the show but unfortunately I haven't figured out how to load them onto my site so this will have to do. Note: there was also a Caucasian kid in the cast as well as a half Chinese Half Caucasian boy.
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| The outside of the theatre | From left to right: Piper, Julie, Betty, Me, and Kai | Here | are | some | pictures |
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| of | some | of | the | acrobatic | shows |
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| we | got | to | see | Kai and some random kid who was sitting in front of us | The final cast although this wasn't all of them |
May 26, 2002
Summer Palace
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| Kai and I being emperor and empress | We changed our hats | Opera house | Kai and I in front of it =P | Scenic view of the lake at Summer Palace | Summer Palace is 2/3 water | A view of where we just took a picture together |
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| Another view of the lake -there's a nice pagoda in the distance. | See the bridge in the distance? When we were on the paddle boats we kept zigzagging through it. | Later on we climbed that temple behind us. | Me being typical Chinese and using an umbrella with no rain =). | Our friend, Sandra, bought me an umbrella of my own. | A nice purple Chinese umbrella for the sun =). | Kai enjoying the wind in his hair. |
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| Us working hard to make the boat go while our other two friends relaxed in the front. | About to climb that temple I just mentioned. | Getting closer to the top of the temple (but not too much yet). | The view from the top of that temple. | You can see the Southwest view of Beijing from here. | Here's an up close picture of the temple. | That's a marble carved boat behind us. |
