hi 人’s

I made my way back to China, and I’m loving it.

I flew on the 13th of October from Amsterdam to Beijing, with a stopover in Moscow. Because of my ‘goodbye party’ with Filip and Maikel in Groningen, I was just a ‘tiny’ bit hungover. In the plane from Amsterdam till Moscow, I couldn’t sleep, and in the plane from Москва to 北京 I didn’t catch much sleep too. So my arrival in Beijing was pretty hard. But, on entering the subway, I was fine again. I suddenly started to recognize things I forgot about China.

• The wind that goes through the subway
• The weird Chinese smell everywhere (like onions or old people)
• Screens in the subway that never work
• Girls with glasses without glasses
• Baby’s with their ass showing for easy poopoo
• Getting ripped off
• People spitting everywhere
• The intense smog
• The Beijing dialect
• The customer service feedback buttons (I always press Very Good)

But it’s great, I love it .

So on the first day, I met with allot of friends. So good to see them again. Took the subway to the CUC and to stroll around and I had a fantastic dinner with Jelena, Jelena & George .

Today I took myself and my bags to Arnaud, I’ll be Couchsurfing here for some days.
I also rent a bike (A BIG COOL MOUNTAINBIKE). (URBAN CHINESE BEIJING MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE YES HELL YEAH HOOHAH JONGE, BAM). I’ll rent it for 24 days… I took it through town, and Ritan park today… should be a bit more careful, because traffic is INTENSE(yes in capitals). Maybe I should buy a helmet-camera to show what it is like, but you can probably imagine .

So tonight there is joined birthday party to which I will attend, followed by some other party. The plan is to go DANDONG on Monday, and from there to Qingdao.

Marck.