pictures

---

i dont have time to write a full blog, but i want to post a couple of pictures because i love them and want to show you guys. sorry for the lack of words, but here's where i'm stopping.

---

Photos

biking home
the evening commute among a crowd of beijing bikers

pig face
yes, pig face. background = the pig's parts, including lungs, heart, and other things for which i don't know the names. luke, elliot, and i tried the heart. it was very tender.

park calligraphy
old men spend their sundays in the park painting characters on the ground in water with giant brushes.

Comments

[Elliot]

Dude I so ate that

[Kristin]

you ate the heart-Maggie please come home- eating a heart of a pig, I don't know what to say. I hope your feeling ok! At least now you can say that you ate a pig heart!

[Grandpa]

Hi Maggie, I met some Chinese people in the western part of Norway about three years ago. They were riding horse and buggys up towards the glaciers. We had to walk up- we couldn't afford the horse ride. I think they enjoyed the trip to the western part of Norway like we all did. We are enjoying reading about your experience in China. Could you please write next time in Chinese? Love, Grandpa

[Lizzie]

carnivore!
im disappointed in you

[zhaonan (michelle)]

heheh
Hey. I left you a message for your previous entry about the BTV 1. (if you dont know who i am..) I am glad you ate pig's heart! heheh, actually as a Beijing ren, I have NEVER eaten that before, and some of my chinese freinds laugh at me and say i am not a true Beijing Ren~~~heheh, for me it has a weird smell....heheh The reason I am glad that you ate it is becasue it shows that you are very open minded girl and willing to expeirence different things. For me, that is what life is about. :) Go to different places and be with the locals and learn. Experience, even the bad ones will help you grow as a more colorful person. :) anyways, I will follow your blog. Good luck in China, and please say hi to Jingshan for me!!!:)

[Kristin]

Hey I forgot to tell you, the other day when I was at work I had to walk to the mailbox and I saw your car and I was like OMG Maggie- then I realized that you were in China-it was kinda sad- but at least I reconized your car. I think your mom might have been at the dentist. Ok be safe and have fun-ciao