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So I arrived in Beijing on Wednesday the 17th at 3:45 pm. It was crazy flying into the airport and finally realizing that I was in China! The air was pretty smoggy and you could feel the hot humidity right when we got off the airplane. It was hot even inside the airport. We went through customs and another student I was with was pulled off to the side for a stuffy nose. It took me awhile to figure out where my group was and how to meet up with them, turns out they were waiting at a Starbucks. We took a bus to the hotel and then had the evening to ourselves. A group of us took the initiative to go and find dinner. We walked into an alley and grabbed food at a little hole in the wall eatery (one of those places I'm sure study abroad advisors would tell me to avoid for the sake of not getting food poisoning). The food was amazing, and completely worth the $2 it cost me. On Thursday morning we had an orientation and then went to find lunch on our own again. We found a different, but equally impressive, local restaurant that was just as delicious. We had a dish of mushrooms, green peppers, celery, pork, and garlic and a dish of spicy tofu. I unexpectedly loved the both of them. We went to the Temple of Heaven in the afternoon and then decided to walk back to the hotel, that was quite the adventure since I had NO idea where we were. That evening we were all going to go to a restaurant at a place called Hou Hai. But only one person knew where we were going and they were not in my taxi. Our taxi driver took us through some back alleys, backing out a few times and turning around and then finally got us there, but the other group wasn't anywhere in site. We decided to leave Hou Hai and find a more inexpensive place to eat and ended up in another small, homey restaurant with amazing food. Today is my last day in Beijing, I still have not mastered chopsticks, and I have no idea how I'm going to function after the language pledge begins on Sunday. Off to Harbin tonight and hopefully another post soon!
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