Prior to today we have been hanging out solely with Chenny, one of my classmates from school who just so happened to be in town. And it has been wonderful. He has taken and shown us all of the things that are Beijing, like eating Peking duck, learning Chinese Chess, and seeing the Great Wall. However, that time is past. After he left us we met up with one of my traveling companion’s boyfriend’s friend, who is living in Beijing teaching English and studying traditional Chinese medicine. His name was Funky. Funky brought us the perspective of a foreigner looking in at Beijing and it was great. The bar we went to, The Tree, was a European/American Anglo Saxon hang out hot spot where the serve pizza and Belgium beer. The bar was located behind a
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