I’ve been up to a lot of stuff recently. Classes are going well, and on Thursday and Friday we toured around Beijing more, going to the Temple of Heaven Park, karaoke, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. I’m going to describe all those places in a bit, but first I need to explain the conditions in which we have been walking around at these places. Beijing is hot. Really, really hot. On Friday it was 100 degrees, and on Sunday it was supposed to get up to 102. I’ve been trying to tell myself that it is a dry heat, but to be completely honest I have been sweating so much that I’m creating my own personal cloud of humidity. And as March, our assistant program director, said, the only positive thing about the weather
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