Friday, April 22, 2011

April 21 - Significant Firsts!

I have had a few significant firsts over the last few days…. I have been riding the subway, which is a breeze (except for when I made a wrong exit and ended up at the Beijing military museum amongst a group of soldiers)

I used the public squat toilet – no privacy, TP, soap or water...and I took the bus to Tiananmen square.  (the Chairman says hi!)

I have eaten a lot of new foods including snail noodle soup, deer tendons cooked in herbs and date sauce. I could not however, eat the chicken head that ended up in my soup bowl (beak and all) during the May Way banquet.

2 comments:

Ikaika said...

You look mahvelous, Gloria! Sounds like you are having quite and adventure. I look forward to updates.

Trudy

Unknown said...

Very brave!