Meinen Damen und Herren,
Yes, yes, I know exactly what you're saying: "What is this?! Another post so soon??? Christopher, you shouldn't have...no, really, you shouldn't have..."
Well, I did, so psssh :-P
This lovely piece documents an epic 24 hour adventure (which included such diverse modes of transportation as walking, subways, buses, and our lovely taxi that drove the wrong way on one-way streets...next time, we're taking a rickshaw) in which Yours Truly and three other adventurers (Kelsey, Lizzie, and our darling Nate) camped on and hiked from the Jinshanling portion of the Great Wall in Hebei Province to the Simatai portion in the Beijing Administrative District. Words cannot describe the Awesome, so I will simply show you:
Chang(2)cheng(2) you(4) piao(4)liang you(4) shuai(4).* (I really need to get a character program...yeah, I'll get on that.)
-cy
*"The Great Wall is both beautiful and handsome." This is how I described my impression of the Wall to our taxi driver. This promped him to muse on the Wall's elegance, more to himself than to us...then he drove into one-way traffic...on purpose. This is China. These things happen.
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We went to that part of the Great Wall too. In the rain. It was breathtaking and slippery but completely free of obnoxious tourists. Yay rain!!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're having fun with your zhongwen!
Wow. That looked insanely beautiful.
ReplyDeletePretty great wall, that Great Wall.
ReplyDeleteMusic by John Williams?