Saturday morning (May 25, 2013) started with a walking tour
around part of Tianjin with Doug Red. It was interesting to see the business
portion of the city. Doug specializes in banking, so as a Business
Administrative major; it was refreshing to learn something about banking and
money $$$$$!!
If there is one thing about China I don’t understand is the
poor maintenance and emptiness of the buildings. The buildings seem to never be
over 50% occupancy, and it all smells of piss and sewage. Bathrooms are poorly
designed with squatting toilets and never cleaned. Trash is every in the building
next to classrooms. I feel like once a person throws trash away, the rest of
the population just follows along with it. To counter the dying buildings here,
China is constantly building! Always building something! They are not building
one building at a time; it looks like an assembly line of apartment buildings
and offices. I wonder how long these buildings will last before they are
unusable and are replaced?
After the walking tour, Chad, Julie, Kat, and I headed over
to Subways for lunch, which was like sitting in a sauna! No AC in the
motherfucking Subways!!!
Lunch was unbearable, but it was done! Now we are off to
Beijing.
We hopped on a taxi and went to the Tianjin Railway station,
and attempted purchase tickets to Beijing through a kiosk, where we did not
succeed. We finally got to the window and bought our tickets First Class
baby!!!! Train station had some really weird security system… By weird I mean
non-existent.
We were on the high-speed train to Beijing, which took 30
minutes, and we thought the hardest part of the trip was over. Little did we
know, the hardest part was after we got to Beijing, we struggled to find our
hostel, which lead us to the oldest part of Beijing where I almost said good
bye to by kidneys… (JK JK JK)
We made it to the hostel, and set our stuff down. After a
light freshening up, we headed to Tiananmen Square. A 15-minute walk from the
description of the hostel ended up being a 50-minute walk. The long and hard
walk was met with no reward when we found out Tiananmen Square was closed… T-T
The group decided to cheer ourselves up with the only way we
know how; we ate and planned for a night out!
That we night went to experience the Beijing nightlife where
we got to dance and drink our chaotic day away! This strip of street looked
like New Orleans, which took me to a comfortable spot.
We came back the next morning, and I just did laundry and died
for 5 hours!
That was my first experience in Beijing.
Over and out
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