Untitled I arrived in Beijing on the 29th (I'm a day ahead of you all, but 8 hours behind); there's a ton of construction going on in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. I spent the first day walking the entire city, well not really, but it felt like it! Beijing is huge, so a few blocks on a map can take almost an hour to walk! I went to Tian'anmen Square, famous for the brutal killings, and the largest square in the world, and a couple of other sites, temples and towers. Beijing is one populated city! There are so many people on bicycles, but the driving is insane, I'd be scared to death! When someone honks their horn, it's not to avert an accident, it's to say, "Hey, I'm coming through!" Bicyclists have no fear,
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