Trip to Beijing 2

I wake up at 7:30 a.m. in the morning. He and I went out at 9:00 a.m. It was so cold in Beijing! First, we bought fried breads at a shop on the street, which was often eaten as a breakfast in Beijing. And we bought a cup of soy milk. These tastes were good! To surprise, the fried bread was very cheap, whose cost was about 20 yen in Japan. It was so cold in outside that the bread became cold soon during eating.

After eating, we got on a bus and went to Summer Palace, which was very famous place. When I got on the bus, I found that we pay the money on ahead and got the ticket from the clerk. Also, the line of seats was different from in Japan. In spite of early morning, there were many people.

Anyway, we arrived at Summer Palace. There was a big lake, which has frozen over! First, we asked women and had a woman take a picture in front of the lake. Then, we went down to the frozen lake. It seemed to be a skating rink! I found a rental shop of boat. However, the shop closed off because boats were not needed! Also, I saw some people taking exercise there. It is similar to Japanese exercise with radio, I thought. Then, we walked around the lake and went to Paiyunmen Gate and the octagon tower. These were so beautiful! We went up the stair of the tower. I felt as if I were in a different place from ordinary. The view from the top of the tower was beautiful too. And also, we walked the Long Corridor. My friend said to me the paint which is drawn has each story. These were wonderful! We watched some beautiful building and colorful outfits.

Next, we took the subway and went to the next place. In Beijing, passengers needed to be checked the bag before took the subway. We only let own bag pass the machine. Also, I got not a ticket but a card to take the subway. It was noon, so we went to eat Chinese dumpling. We ordered two plates of boiled dumplings. The material of the one was Chinese chive and stirred egg, and cut shrimp, which was common dumpling. The material of the other was ground meat. These were delicious!

We went to Tiananmen Square. There were some guard and strong security. I gazed some structures there, for example Great Hall of the People, Zhengyangmen Gate, Tiananmen Gate and Monuments there. I often see Tiananmen Square on TV, but I felt it was magnificent when I went there. However, we couldn’t go into National Palace Museum because we didn’t have enough time. If you want to visit here, it needed much time because there are many wonderful things to see.

After that, we went back home by subway. My friend just had a test. In evening, he introduced his friends to me. They were two women and have been to study Chinese too. They were talkative person and fun to be with. The two senior women and I went to go shopping together by taxi. They took me a store which was build recently. I surprised that there were many booths. It was very different from Japanese store. In Japan, it was very wide and some shops in a store, but in China, there were many individual booths, which was crowded a lot of goods. I bought a pair of boots whose color was black. In China, we could ask the clerk to make the cost down, so the seniors bargained the cost for the clerk. After shopping, we took a rest at a starbucks and enjoyed talking for a while. I heard much interesting stories and their experiences in China from them. And I talked about my incidents that I had arrived at Beijing and so on. When we went out the shop, I had a different. I needed not to remove a cup and could leave it on the table. By the way, I heard from them that we could get the tumbler which had a different design from each city’s starbucks in China. So it is good to gather all design.

At the night, we met my friend again, and went out for dinner together! We chose going the restaurant by taxi, so we took a taxi on the road. However, we didn’t know well where the restaurant was. They explained the general place to the taxi driver. He was so kind that he sometimes got off the taxi and asked someone the way to go there! My seniors said he was really kind and there were seldom such a driver and also his way of speaking was soft. In Beijing, some taxi driver says passengers to get off the taxi if the driver doesn’t know the place where we want to go.

We managed to arrive at the restaurant, which was Din Tai Fung. The restaurant is in Japan too. There were so beautiful and dishes were delicious! We ordered Xiaolongbao, which was known soup dumpling, and Almond jelly; annin tofu, and so on. I was full! We spent a very good time eating and talking.

After dinner, we dropped in at the place which had beautiful decorated lights. If we arrived there earlier, we could see the broadened light on the ceiling too. The senior said it could light the
letters on the ceiling if we sent an e-mail that we wrote messages. How wonderful it is! We took pictures together there and enjoyed seeing the beautiful lights. It was late at night, then, we went back each home by taxi. I really enjoyed the day! [957 words]