street scene

I wrote this on May 29....but wasn't able to post on that day...so here it is~ I am leaving for Korea from 6/5-6/9, then heading back to my mom's home town -GuiYang on 6/10...so come back after 6/13, by then I should be able to upload all the pic from Korea on the website~
thanks to all my friends who sent me comments about the blog and pic~ I will keep taking more food pic...just to make you jealous :p ~

Pic: http://www.slide.com/r/CUS8X8Cl5D9GkNOdWsE_wtIomuFeWn5q?previous_view=lt_embedded_url


The weather today is the best day that I have been to since my arrival. Last night I had dinner with my elementary school friend and her family. They took me to the infamous “Ghost street”. It is a street filled with restaurant. As night gets darker, it gets busier…one of the reason why it’s called “ghost street”. We were sitting on top of the roof, thus I took a picture of the roofs, those are traditional roof, native Beijing people (beijingnese?? Pekingnese?? No…that’s dog…)used to live in one floor house like that.
I was walking on the street a lot today, to enjoy the beautiful weather! You rarely see clear sky in China due to pollutions. Because of the strong wind, the sky are cleared today. Last time I mentioned that Beijing Olympics is everywhere in the news media. You can tell from the street. Thanks to Olympics, many streets are being re-build and expanded, many high-raise towers are built, many pots of flowers have been planted to decorate the street. I remembered back in the old day childhood memories, when the govt put out tons of flowers on the street for national day celebration, citizens used to steal them and take it home to decorate their own home. Of course, people knows more now. I was glad to see the changes in average citizen’s behavior. When I came back this past Decemeber, people used to block the escalator in the subway for convinience and conversation with friends (the right side of the escalator is used for standing passenger, and the left side are usually opened up for people who are in a rush to get to some where), four months later, I am glad to see that people automatically stand on the right side of the escalator without prompting, though there are still individuals who still block the left side…only a few though. People are changing, in a lightning speed. Beijing is changing in a speed that no one else can compare to.