I was planning on showing you photos of our excursion to the Summer Palace, a World Heritage site located here in Beijing. It is so popular that more than 30,000 people visited last Sunday. Wanting to avoid the crowds and have a more relaxing visit, I skipped school today so I could make the trip during a relatively slow weekday.
Today it rained. A lot...
So, instead I show you photos of me and Sujin at "Sculpting in Time." A cafe right across the street from the Wudaokou station covering two floors with additional seating on the roof. The atmosphere is very similar to what you might find in an Ann Arbor coffee shop. It has a very international feel as many of the patrons are foreign students from all over the world who have come to Beijing to work or study as well as the Chinese folks who like to hang out with them. You can find a whole wall of reading material, mostly in English, but also many other languages. If you bring your laptop you can connect to their WiFi and check your e-mail and plan your next trip. The coffee here is pretty good and you can actually get one free refill here, which is not a very common thing. In China it seems, you can drink tea all the live long day for one low price but coffee? no. Coffee is expensive.
