Diner in Beijing International Hotel with my homestay family

The wall... (9th Oct)

We went to the great wall by bus, it was a really long drive (a couple of hours...) When we finally got there we started climbing the wall... the steps are really steep and sometimes slippery. There were again millions of people asking if they can have photo's with us so it took about 2 hours to get to the top... It was really tiring!!! When we finally got to the top we took lots of photo's with us and the WA flag, the Oberthur and the Bateman flag. We got in trouble by a policeman because you're not allowed any flags on the wall besides the chinese flag... The policeman got really angry but we still got some photo's... Then we had to climb all the way down again... which took another couple of hours. When we got back to the bus we went to the Ming tombs, like a chinese pyramid underground. It was pretty cool, some emperors were married to like 5 people.



Im now at my homestay, they can't speak english at all!!! they use this translator thing the whole time and when they try to speak normal english it doesnt make sense at all so they start using the translator thing again... but it's pretty funny trying to talk with hands and feet...



Thanx to JANICE for posting soo many comments

Tiananmen Square + Forbidden City

China!!!

It still doesnt seem like i'm actually in China!!! Besides having a million people asking if they can take photos of me and the other peeps when were just walking around...

Tomorrow i'm going to the great wall... i cant wait... it's probably going to be the highlight of this trip.... In 2 days i'm going to my homestay... wonder with what homestay i'm going with... 

Thanx to the peeps that posted comments... i like knowing that peeps are reading my blog

well, now i'm off to Tiananmen square and the forbidden city...

China!!!

My time so far in China is awsome... i got a bit homesick at the start but now I'm with my friends it's all good... Tomorrow we're going to the pearl markets and the cheap markets and i cant wait to buy heaps of really cheap stuff (because you can bargain a much as you like so you can make the price really cheap...)... I have only spend some money in the museum and for lunch today so i've still got heaps of money left to spent!!! I'm gonna buy some presents for my family tomorrow because I waited for the markets because they sell so much stuff that i'll always find what i'm looking for... What am i gonna buy??? no one knows...

2nd day with Tina (homestay family)

Pictures made in a chinese shop