Day 7 - Beijing

Train chugs along; deep slumber under warm covers; morning light shines through the windows. Annoying blasting music; shouting food cart-pushers; piercing smell of cigarette smoke. Hearty breakfast of four slices of bread, ham sliced, fried egg and hot soy milk =). Very different from my experience four years ago with a weird-colored egg yolk in my hard-boiled egg. Train arrived. Stepping out of the train carriage, a car appears right in front of me, on the freaking platform! Craziness!! Penguin walk, shuffling our way out of the sardine-packed station. Beijing University, reunited with people from the Suzhou/Wuxi and Hangzhou trips, as well as people who only came for the Grand Reunion.  Discussion forum, segregated by regions, together with the new kids from CSP10. A lot of talk about how far China has come and how much further China can go in terms of economic and social development. Line-up practice for the photo session tomorrow; as always standing with the boys because of height. Drinks at 1949; very hard to get a taxi and very hard to find the place but a very nice place with art galleries. Dancing at Mix; very far to walk and very hard to find the people but really fun place with good music. Tomorrow is another day!