Trip to Huairou 旅行到怀柔去

Last weekend we got out of the city a bit to Huairou where there's an old section of the Great Wall. As it turns out, there is also a canyon with boats, rafts and...a bungee jump...at the bottom. Of course. It was still lovely, and accessible by city bus, so convenient. It was about 11 kuai (less than 2 dollars) for transportation, and I managed to gather four people (including gathering myself) to go, one other American (my classmate from Indiana) and two Chinese (my current roommate and my roommate from the last time I lived in Beijing.



Not bad, eh?

This is the Chinglish jewel of the past few weeks. I didn't know 'almond coolies' were still sold in China, I thought they left when Mao kicked out the foreign imperialist aggressors.

Last Friday a different classmate from Indiana was in Beijing and organized karaoke with almost thirty (yes, 30!) people. She rented out an entire room, all you can sing and all you can drink. It ended up at about 35 kuai a person (around 5 dollars). She's lived in China before, and has sung karaoke a few times, can you tell from the picture?

And as promised, pictures of my shiney new (and as of this typing) not yet stolen bike!
And here's the Chinese-style lock on the back wheel.
And here's what I bike through to get to work. This is part of the road/bike path that goes through my neighborhood and past some of the older buildings, which you can see behind my bike.