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Alright, So. Thursday. We first went to the Youyi (store for imported crap) and bought some toiletries that don't exist outside of Beijing, but I was once again foiled in my search for Ax deodorant body spray. Yet they had some deodorant which should tide me over until I receieve the package my parents are sending.
We went to the summer palace later, which took all of our lives to get there. We made it and it was OK, but muh. So we spent the entire time cooking up among the sweetest ideas of all time - BATTLE ZOO. You come in and FIGHT ANIMALS. Also, there is a face-melting rock song that will be writen about the battle zoo.
We ditched the summer palace and made it back to subway (Subwubs).
We bought some beer at the Youyi Shangdian (guinness and some hefeweizen). When we brought it back to the hotel, we asked them to store our beer in their refridgerator, as our room did not have one. Their immediate answer, though I was looking right at it was "We don't have a refridgerator." When I pointed to it, they began making a series of other non-sensical excuses: "We can't do that, it'll freeze" "We don't have room" etc. and it was completely infuriating. Eventually we walked into the restuarant next door where they let us do it without even a second glance.
Drank some, went out to a series of bars and wound up the night talking to this Dutch guy with among the highest voices in the world.
Friday we did essentially jack. We got up and spent 50 kuai each going to a Dim Sum place where it was all you can eat. Oh man it was great. Crap. We came back and Scott crashed until about 6 and I sat and read. We went out to the same place we started every single night in Beijing - a houka bar on the street "san li tun." Ross and I had been longing for Shisha, and searching for it in Saigon, but no dice. So we pounced on the opportunity to once again enjoy such a pleasure. We were outside, sitting inside was a group of five girls about our age. I don't recall who struck first, but we wound up in this conversation of writing shit and pushing it against the window. Eventually we all wound up together and went to Bar Blu, sat for a few pitchers (me chatting up one whose name was Alice), but they had to go home as they had some conference tomorrow. We exchanged numbers and agreed to meet up Saturday.
Saturday morning your three protagonists woke up and went out to the great wall. Here's what's great about our trip to the great wall. We hiked on the wall for about 2 hours and just stood and gawked at places for another hour. The entire time we saw 9 people not ourselves. BOOM SUCKAZ. We wound up going with a tour guide who essentially just takes tour groups to parts of the wall nobody goes too. It was so amazingly beautiful and completely not marred by there being 50000000000000 people. We hiked, rode back, and chilled until 8 when we went to go meet the girls. It turned out to just be meet the girl, as only Alice came out with us! So we had the typical misadventures you have when you ask a Beijing taxi driver to take you somewhere (first was night market - meiyou. Second was some good bars - meiyou. Third was . . . ), and eventually wound up back at that same silly bar! We hung around until 10:30 when Ross and Scott decided to go back and get some sleep as they were tired. Alice and I barhopped for a while before winding up in this really fancy bar where we sat and talked until 3. At that point, we decided to go for a walk, which wound up being a walk from Sanlitun in the northeast of the city to Tiananmen in the center, a 2.5 hour walk!
I thought going into the night that I may have been lining up for my first one night stand. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I feel like I wouldn't have objected to it, because I have no moral problem with it. You just never know until you find yourself actually in the situation.
What happened was a night WAY BETTER than any hook-up would have been. It was a night of really talking to a girl, being close, and it was the best night I've had in Asia, hands down, except for the intense competition provided by the night I stayed up all night with Jung-Eun in Saigon. Today I'm completely wasted and out of it, but no surprise there as I stayed up all night.
I have a lot to say about Beijing and China after this week, but it'll have to be at a later date when i'm feeling more analytical and haven't written a ton already.
Good to be me.
We went to the summer palace later, which took all of our lives to get there. We made it and it was OK, but muh. So we spent the entire time cooking up among the sweetest ideas of all time - BATTLE ZOO. You come in and FIGHT ANIMALS. Also, there is a face-melting rock song that will be writen about the battle zoo.
We ditched the summer palace and made it back to subway (Subwubs).
We bought some beer at the Youyi Shangdian (guinness and some hefeweizen). When we brought it back to the hotel, we asked them to store our beer in their refridgerator, as our room did not have one. Their immediate answer, though I was looking right at it was "We don't have a refridgerator." When I pointed to it, they began making a series of other non-sensical excuses: "We can't do that, it'll freeze" "We don't have room" etc. and it was completely infuriating. Eventually we walked into the restuarant next door where they let us do it without even a second glance.
Drank some, went out to a series of bars and wound up the night talking to this Dutch guy with among the highest voices in the world.
Friday we did essentially jack. We got up and spent 50 kuai each going to a Dim Sum place where it was all you can eat. Oh man it was great. Crap. We came back and Scott crashed until about 6 and I sat and read. We went out to the same place we started every single night in Beijing - a houka bar on the street "san li tun." Ross and I had been longing for Shisha, and searching for it in Saigon, but no dice. So we pounced on the opportunity to once again enjoy such a pleasure. We were outside, sitting inside was a group of five girls about our age. I don't recall who struck first, but we wound up in this conversation of writing shit and pushing it against the window. Eventually we all wound up together and went to Bar Blu, sat for a few pitchers (me chatting up one whose name was Alice), but they had to go home as they had some conference tomorrow. We exchanged numbers and agreed to meet up Saturday.
Saturday morning your three protagonists woke up and went out to the great wall. Here's what's great about our trip to the great wall. We hiked on the wall for about 2 hours and just stood and gawked at places for another hour. The entire time we saw 9 people not ourselves. BOOM SUCKAZ. We wound up going with a tour guide who essentially just takes tour groups to parts of the wall nobody goes too. It was so amazingly beautiful and completely not marred by there being 50000000000000 people. We hiked, rode back, and chilled until 8 when we went to go meet the girls. It turned out to just be meet the girl, as only Alice came out with us! So we had the typical misadventures you have when you ask a Beijing taxi driver to take you somewhere (first was night market - meiyou. Second was some good bars - meiyou. Third was . . . ), and eventually wound up back at that same silly bar! We hung around until 10:30 when Ross and Scott decided to go back and get some sleep as they were tired. Alice and I barhopped for a while before winding up in this really fancy bar where we sat and talked until 3. At that point, we decided to go for a walk, which wound up being a walk from Sanlitun in the northeast of the city to Tiananmen in the center, a 2.5 hour walk!
I thought going into the night that I may have been lining up for my first one night stand. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I feel like I wouldn't have objected to it, because I have no moral problem with it. You just never know until you find yourself actually in the situation.
What happened was a night WAY BETTER than any hook-up would have been. It was a night of really talking to a girl, being close, and it was the best night I've had in Asia, hands down, except for the intense competition provided by the night I stayed up all night with Jung-Eun in Saigon. Today I'm completely wasted and out of it, but no surprise there as I stayed up all night.
I have a lot to say about Beijing and China after this week, but it'll have to be at a later date when i'm feeling more analytical and haven't written a ton already.
Good to be me.