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hello all!
been busy, busy, busy here in beijing so will try sum it up very quickly before i head to the train station to catch my 12 hour overnight train to pingyao! so excited about the train!
i've joined up with my tour now, which started on sunday. everyone is really nice and friendly and our tour guide wendy is brilliant. i like talking to her and finding out more about chinese culture. she was saying how she was only allowed to have one child because of the one child policy and how her whole family wanted a boy (as they do in china, god knows why!) but then she got a girl and was really disappointed. she does there tours all the time and so is away from her family for a month at a time. i've also learned over the past week how to say hello, goodbye and thank you in chinese :) soon i will be able to have conversations! haha.
we went to the great wall yesterday. it was absolutly amazing to see. unfortunatly the weather was rubbish! it was raining and all misty so the views weren't as good as i had hoped and the photos are a little grey. but was wonderful all the same. i realised just how unfit i am though as im sure my face turned purple climbing the millions of steep stairs just to get to the wall! haha. luckily there were a couple of members of my tour that were even more unfit than me! while walking along the wall three little chinese girls came up to me and said "welcome to china, we hope you have a lovely time, you are very beautiful" - cutest thing ever! we then exchanged photos with eachother, i've loaded one of them up and as you can see i am soaking from the rain. after the great wall we went to the summer palace which was stunning. was so crowded though, with chinese tourists!
the day before yesterday, we went to see an acrobatic show (that's big here in china) and it was lovely. it was mostly children and young teens performing and it was great to watch. have also used my first squat toilets in china which are an experience!
i am really loving china, it is a wondeful place and am looking forward to seeing more of it. the food is amazing and they sell strawberry flavour oreos which is even better! the people are facinating and i'm really getting into the way of life here. will update again in a few days when i have some more time.
hope all is well with everyone in the deen.
xxx
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