WEEKEND, SPARKNOTES STYLE: First off: I didn’t just climb the Great Wall on Saturday —- I freaking ziplined it. Can I just say, most awesome experience ever. I went to the Simatai part, which was pretty steep¹. After climbing for so long, I went on the zipline², which is a much cooler option than just walking down or taking the 20 minute cable car. Afterwards, I went with some friends to the restaurant near campus and then to a club³ owned by Columbia alums. Turns out that there was a Columbia alumni reception in town the next afternoon, so plans for Sunday were pretty much set! I had a great time at the reception⁴, and after that, we went to Purple Haze⁵, a really nice Thai restaurant. I then went back home and after writing a half-hearted attempt of an essay on Xing Ba Ke‘s⁶ place in the Forbidden City, I then watched the Euro Cup final (oh, Germany, my heart). Three hours later, I went to class not knowing any of the 70 new vocab words⁷, and now I’m posting this blog entry for everybody to read. The end.

Yeah, I definitely ziplined across that.

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YOU GUYS. The wine flavoured Pejoy is really good, and I mean really, really good. Pejoy is basically reverse Pocky¹, and I’ve bought so many boxes of tiramisu, cheesecake, matcha green tea, red wine, and chocolate. Not to mention, I’ve bought so many snacks² in addition to this. If only American prices weren’t so inflated.

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Dude, is it just me or does every photo that I seem to take look inexplicably … bad whenever I switch computers?¹ I’m on my flickr, and everything just looks gross.

View outside the plane. The thing with Beijing’s skyline (or lack thereof, I suppose) is that it’s hazy … like crazy (rhyming skills, let me show you them!). Seriously guys, good luck finding the sun if you ever venture out here. Until we were really close to ground level, the view from the plane was completely white.

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