I've been in Beijing for about 1 week now and I’m finding the city just amazing, there is so much to see and do here it's just crazy. Even after all this time I’m still having those "oh my God, I’m in China" moments where it all feels so unreal, you wonder what you are doing here and get anxious about what will happen next. The city feels modern but yet like it's still stuck in Middle Ages at the same time, you can see huge skyscrapers on one street, turn the corner and find the dust and grime of the city hutong slums on the next. A lot of building work has been going on within Beijing and it's been a real eye-opener to see just how hard these people work. These people working on
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