So, how can I explain my time so far in China? Let's do a quick picture re-cap. First we landed, stood in several lines for way too long, and seethed both with anticipation and the desire to move our tired butts, slothfully inert for the past 12 hours. Immediately after proceeding through customs, we were whisked away by people from Beida to our snazzy Beida bus. Between airport and bus, however, lay our first glimpse of China - and it was, well, foggy. For the next week, a haze remained over the city, and I began to think this was the way Beijing always was. We never saw the sky, the stars never appeared, and most irritatingly, we could never see more than 150 feet in each direction. It was pretty surreal - cars and bikes
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