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Today was an early start in Beijing as there was much to see. I arranged to meet Marie, a friend of Vivians friend, at 8 AM at Wudaoku underground station. Wudaoku is the student district Im staying in. It took me nearly 2 days of jetlagged pondering to figure out where I was in Beijing, and also what time it was. This can now be looked back on and laughed at, but at the time it was rather painful, trying to mime clock and alarm clock at shop assistants and I eventually figured out where I was by a sign advertising cheap Martinis, was my saving grace.
Instead of wandering about with Marie today I instead ended up goiing around Behai park with her friend Scarlett. Behai park was beautiful, with many weepingwillos and ornate dynastic buildings and a beautiful ferry although it had a certain Buttlands holiday park feel about it, as it was the middle of Labor week and it was choc full of sticky handed children and tense looking parents. I saw the Jade inslet which is all that remains of the Khan dynasty, Ghengis Khan who was its 1st emporer. Still feeling lonley, although I think this had been the most valuable lesson I have learnt so far as to what it is like to be completley alone in such a huge place. And bizzarley enough these few blocks of completley alein culture are starting to feel like home. It was all very lost in translation, except Beijing of course, and no Bill Murray... And really most of the time I was just lost and linguistically inept.
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