Beginnings

I flew over the North pole on the way to Beijing. Watching the ice floes was so cool. It *did* kind of look like it was melting, though. We also flew over Siberia, which is all I got a picture of. I'll try to post pictures later. The dorm internet is pretty up and down in quality, so I'll try to post pictures when we go to the internet cafe.

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It's pretty different this time. I can't tell if it's that I've changed or if it's that the place has changed. I mean, post-olympics Beijing is... cleaner. I guess that's really the only difference... everything is new. they have RFID cards for the subway now! the last time I was here, they gave out little bits of paper.

I keep having really weird feelings like I'm back in high school.

We went to Wang Fu Jing last night, which is the street market in Beijing that has tons of crazy food like centipedes and scorpions on sticks. and vendors who shout "hey! Testicles" or "penis! Penis!" to get you to buy said sheep body parts. I didn't get up the courage to try stuff, but some of the other people did.

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I keep thinking I'm over the jetlag, but then I get really tired at, like, 8pm.

I'm really ready for classes to start.