RANDOM PHOTOS FROM CHINA...

Hey everybody! 

I was looking through my computer today, and I found a few little gems from China...

I took this photo from the plane on the way to China - beat this sunrise!

OK, first of all, please don't even comment on the way I'm standing. I look
like I'm about to wet myself... Also, this picture was taken when I had just
come off the 10 hour plane journey. Just to be clear... ;)

Sunrise at my daddy's home-town. Gorgeous! (In my opinion...)

My uncle, just casually fishing.

I KNOW THIS IS DISGUSTING BUT...
There's a side for 'organisms' and there's a side for 'recycled'. So where do I throw
my chocolate bar wrapper?!

I'm quite proud of this image, if I may say so. The background isn't
particularly nice, but I love the bubbles!

...I don't know what to say...

You've probably seen this already...but if not it's the view from my hotel room.
Isn't it wonderful?

If it weren't for the Chinese writing, you'd probably think this was America...
Where are the Asians?!

'The Place' was amazing - it had a massive screen as a roof which would
change all the time, and you can ask to have a message written on there
for perhaps a loved one to see. There were loads of proposals...so cute!

As suggested by the massive spoon, this street was restaurant after restaurant,
bar after bar. All the Beijing party people come here I believe...and tourists
such as myself of course!

These are just a few of my captured moments from China - out of 612 photos believe it or not. Most the ones from my daddy's home-town had my family in it, but I don't think you guys would be too interested in my family history! So the majority of these are in Beijing...

Anyways, this was just a little photo based post - I hope you enjoyed it :)

I love y'all, and goodbye xxx

EXPLORING BEIJING (01/09/2014)

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!

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:

A busy road. typical

[Insert quote about life and happiness here]

Aww how cute! I'm such a creep!

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.

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