| Ha! Two days after I have arrived at Beijing¡K finally¡K I successfully installed DSL onto my laptop! (Yay! Chen, you were right, I should never have doubts about whether or not I should come to Beijing because I am truly ENJOYING my life now!) Haha¡K I really love it here! The whether is okay (I was going to say great¡K but then again¡K its kind of cold at times), my host family is awesome, and we have such an amazing group from Newton! But yea¡K I¡¦m going to start talking about my plane trip here to Beijing¡K haha! So, we first flew to Chicago, and then from Chicago, Beijing. The flight from Boston to Chicago was okay. We didn¡¦t get any good as expected and we basically sat in the very last row of the plane. But, the flight from Chicago to Beijing was kind of interesting. First, I NEVER knew that people hang out in front of the bathroom on the plane! Ha! I thought there were always people in front of the bathroom because they were in line or something. But guess what!? They were only there to socialize and to hang out! That kind of explains why when I was waiting for the bathroom random people would just walk up to me and try to talk to me lol haha¡K awkward right? Okay, and about my life right now, my host family has two houses. One is my host grandparents¡¦ house (my host grandparents are kind of cool and so nice!! It¡¦s kind of funny too because I thought my host grandfather is kind of like my grandpa from my mother¡¦s side! Haha), and the other house is a little far but wicked nice!!! But¡K no matter where we live, I still get to have my own room, a queen size bed, and tons of freedom! Although we have only arrived for three days, I already went shopping twice! (How sweet is that, right? Hehe) The shopping malls here are so incredibly awesome! Everything is so CHEAP!! I don¡¦t know if I want to go back to Newton anymore, haha. But yea¡K what I found out from my trip to Beijing so far is that¡K the stores that sell DVDs and CDs in Chinatown are total rip offs!!! Here¡K the most a DVD can cost is 15 Chinese dollars, which is equivalent to almost 2 US dollars. But in Chinatown, they sell the exactly same DVD for 15 US dollars!! LOL hahaha¡K. I¡¦m going to buy so many DVDs when I get back, hehe =) Oh! And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! My host family took me to a real nice resturant!!! I ate so much! But yea.. I have to go now¡K I¡¦ll update pictures later!! Ttyl <3
Steph <333
edit* i got one red envelop!! weeee =D |
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lol hahaha