I did not drown in the Yangtze or disappear in the labyrinth of Beijing. .. I am back. Although I am working through my second cold. This one is run of the mill sniffles but please keep your fingers crossed that this will be the last for a while.
The weather has turned a little chilly and we have had some beautiful blue days. One of those lovely days I spent at the Great Wall.
I went with an enormous group of Beijing Normal students (about 14 buses) and one of them is a really sweet girl whose western name is Emily. The bus ride took about two hours and I did not bring enough snacks to eat so I paid way to much for a banana on top of the Great Wall. Emily is a good sport who tried to teach me some Chinese on the ride.
Of course the pictures convey very little of the grandeur of the experience but it is better than nothing.
Can you see little me up on the parapets? Just one over from the last one on the right.
This is probably one of my favorite pictures.
