Days One and Two

China is definitely different, a weird mix of being a giant developing country with 185 out of the fortune 500 biggest businesses being headquartered here along with half looking like a third world country. The driving is crazy, cars have the right of way for sure and stoplights and stopsigns are simply guidelines they don't have to be legally followed. Also fun fact the Beijing airport is really three different airports in one, each airport is considered a different terminal. Terminal 3 was built just for the Olympics and is the 3rd largest airport in the world and the biggest one in Asia.

Wednesday night we went to the food street where there was fried snake on a stick, dog, starfish, scorpions, spiders, squid, etc. None of us had any yet but I think a few are going to brave spiders and scorpions tonight.

Thursday we went to Tienanmen Square which is the largest square in the world and is just crazy. A lot of people are tourists from around Asia and had never seen a white person before. We also have three african americans, a few redheads and a few blondes so they were celebrities among the chinese people. But we all got asked to take our picture with the people and it was quite crazy. Then we wen to the Forbidden City which is 180acres alone. It has 9,999 rooms and would take over 2 weeks to visit everything. Over 50,000 people visit it a day. It was extremely crowded and crazy. I would call China organized Chaos more or less. The food is fantastic but a cheeseburger sounds nice right now. We then went to the flower district which is right on this cute little lake and there was a Starbucks, so of course I stopped by there. The coffee here isn't as sweet as it is back home. The lake was beautiful and we also went to the pipe district which is a local shopping district. We are going to the market after dinner tonight, back to food street, and might adventure to find the local night life.

China is awesome but I miss home already. Our group is great, minus one girl getting lost while at the Forbidden City today.... we found her after about an hour or so. The smog here is absolutely ridiculous, I think it was blue skies today but I am not 100% sure since the smog is so thick and everyone here smokes all the time. Also fun fact, since there are 14 million people in Beijing and 5 million cars - cars with certain license plates can't drive on certain days. If your license plate ends in a 1 or 9 you can't drive on Monday, etc.