Hiya again.
How are you? I'm all right, I guess.
Did you know that 'all right' is the proper way of writing 'alright'? Because I did not! I technically always spelt it wrong then, until just then when I typed 'alright' into Google to see if it was a word and it gave me 'all right'!
Mind-boggling!
Did you know that 'all right' is the proper way of writing 'alright'? Because I did not! I technically always spelt it wrong then, until just then when I typed 'alright' into Google to see if it was a word and it gave me 'all right'!
Mind-boggling!
Anyways, before I get to the main bulk of this post, I just wanna say...
OMG ultimate fangirl moment! And I'm not fangirling over a hot celebrity crush or whatever...I'm fangirling over Greek mythology! Nerds unite! In Latin today, my teacher was going on about how the Greeks hated not burying bodies after death, and how they thought that if a body wasn't buried, the spirit would wander around like a ghost. And OMG I just thought about Patroclus (The Song of Achilles - it's an amazing book) and the feeeeeeelllllsssss! And then that reminded me of the time I was in Turkey on a school trip, and we buried our other Latin teacher and he said 'I feel like Patroclus entombed'! I love my Latin teachers!
Anyways, onto the actual post...
So if you had read my last post, you would know that I had been sick whilst in China. Thankfully, it only lasted one day, which I'm so glad about because that meant I got a chance to explore Beijing!
In the morning my dad was doing some business stuff with a few people, so I decided to go out myself to do a little exploring of the surrounding area near our hotel. It was quite fun - I took my camera out and took a few photos:
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| A busy road. typical |
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| [Insert quote about life and happiness here] |
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| Aww how cute! I'm such a creep! |
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| Beautifully foggy and smoggy - the view from my hotel room :D |
Afterwards, I had lunch with some of daddy's colleagues who apparently know all about me...a bit strange! Not really, they were nice - I don't know who they are, but they seemed nice enough...
"I've heard all about you..." *evil smirk*
In the afternoon, I carried on exploring, this time with my dad. We acted like typical tourists, me with my camera hanging off my neck, him with a map in his hands. We first went to a sort of hilly park place with temples on the hills...I honestly don't know what these places are called, which is embarrassing...
Then we explored another park, which was massive and had a huge white tower thingy in the middle, surrounded by a lake. We walked around the whole park, plus going to the middle area, which must have been miles. My feet were hurting a lot after that, especially since I was wearing my sandals.
And finally, we went to Tiananmen Square (I remembered the name! Although it would be shameful if I didn't remember, basically everyone knows this place...). We arrived coincidently just in time to see the flag being lowered for sunset, which is a customary thing they do every day. At sunrise, the flag comes up, and at sunset, the flag goes back down. It got dark really quickly after that (duh, me! The sun had just set!) so we just wandered around the front of Tiananmen Gate to take photos...
In the dark.
In the dark.
At the end of the day, we were so tired, and we got back to the hotel kinda late - at 11:30 pm. Needless to say, I fell asleep really quickly. Though that's also because the beds were so comfortable. I'm not joking, but every time you lie down you literally sink down and it feels like you're floating.
Bliss
Anyways, that's all for today, I love y'all,
And goodbye! xxx
