Shopping

It turns out that I didn’t have to do the speaking test after all. I wonder why. Maybe I aced the test.^^

Anyway, I went on a shopping adventure with my 3 new HK/Canadian buddies today. We caught the train and subway to two shopping districts. One of the guy’s local friends met up with us and took us around. We basically looked at menswear all day coz one of the Canadian guys, D, had only decided at the last minute to take the language course here and had enough clothes for just 4 days. The native Beijingers did some serious bargaining for us too. What I thought was cheap, they thought could be cheaper. K wanted to buy a hair dryer but didn’t want to pay the quoted 80 RMB, and Frk got it down to 30.

eat street in WANGFUJING

Beijing Olympic Mascots

We shopped all afternoon, until dinner time. My feet were so tired. We only sat down for meals. We went to a Japanese place for lunch, and a Korean place for dinner. Last night we had Italian. The night before, I had Chinese – tofu and mushroom. Most of the Beijing food I’ve seen so far has been oily and/or spicy. And I’ve noticed the people here eat a lot of rice and meat but not much greens. Perhaps I should buy myself a gas stove and some cooking utensils and start doing some cooking myself.