Today I made a special trip to Changping 昌平 with Gerard. Gerard's workplace is in Changping, in a school called Sun Village. He needs some help with translation at work and to prepare for the Christmas Party Sun Village, so I took the day off and went with him. Gerard always asked all of us to go to Changping one day for a visit. From what he described, Changping is very rural and really not fun at all. It's a place that he wouldn't go unless required, lol, we always make jokes around this topic.
Changping is located at the 30kms north west of Beijing and is at the south side of the Great Wall. This is a city with very long history and very protected for its resources endownments and ancient history. If anyone wants to go to Badaling part of the Great Wall, you will definitely pass Changping, and therefore it's also a town for tourism.
We took the the subway to Jishuitan and caught the express bus 919 to Changping. The total journey lasted about 1 and a half hour. Poor Gerard >_<>
We were going to go to the Christmas Party held by the AIESEC MC team in their flat. But eventually due to logistic reasons we decided not to attend. It's pity that we couldn't attend but we made sure us four still stay together for the festival. Gerard and I met up with Josi then eventually meeting Jordan at The Palace. The Palace is a high class shopping centre in Chaoyang and is famous for the massive screen up in the air. We were hoping to see the undersea animals showing up in the screen, but it's Christmas, of course there will be Christmas related things instead. It's such a cold night tonight, but there are still a lot of people around in town, especially young people. It's just too cold though, for us to stay out for long so let's just go home for a warmer night =P
(LOL at Gerard and Jordan trying to pose like penguins!! hehe)
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