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Journey to Beijing

March 29 2007

  I think i should write something about this trip to Beijing ,not because beijing is so far the farest place i have ever been,not because Beijing is China's capital,but all for what i saw and what i heard.






   1.  My friend Sean said i made a decision very quickly ,and he was very astonished  when i told him by a cellphone message that i was in beijing 3 days after he and his classmates arriving in QingHai province.





   i went there by train ,and arrived in Beijing in the morning on Monday. Like xiamen railstation ,it's also full of people. i didn't have much food on train,so i went to KFC to have porridge(what i really want is to have something hot,because i only eat some bread and some fruits during past 34 hours). and after that it made me felt better.





   i had to go to see my elder brother first .so the first impression of Beijing is the subway there.i think Xiamen's traffic was so far the worst i ever experienced , but compare with Beijing ,Xiamen is far better.  i dared not to get on the subway,the guard who are in uniform would push the people who could not  get on so as to have  the subway's  door closed. and people just kept trying geting on,because most of them are in a hurry to their company to work.and it was around 8:30. i waited till 9:00 and have no idea but to get on.



  if you have experienced Beijing 's traffic,you would think how wise the "one child policy "is! there is a funny story i heard from my brother:



   there is a foreigner who just arrived Beijing for a couple of weeks,and he usually criticized chinese policy ,especilly the "one child policy".he thinks the policy is unhumanistic.one day he took a bus to go  to Er li Tun ,it was very very crowded, he felt about to fart when the bus arrived at another bus station,the door open ,no one got off,but people kept getting on.he was pushed went and fro.he was very angry but have no idea.after a while ,he notice that he didn't feel about to fart,because the fart was pushed inside!! since then,he changed his mind,and never criticized chinese "one child policy"...



   I met my brother and left my luggage to my brother then started my journey around Beijing alone.the first place i decided to go is Tian'an men square. I saw it many times on TV,but i haven't been there.and even more ,i would love to see the cenotaph which was built for memoring  our heros who sacrificed for the country.





it stands  majesticlly in the center of  Tian'an men square facing  the  Tian'an men building ,which used to be the gate of forbidden city.



i supposed to see Chairman Mao's body,but the memorial was under repaired,it was a great pity. theni wandering around Tian'an men square as what i usually do in Xiamen.


 2.   I like travelling very much,and i have a dream of travelling around China,as my father did when he was young. and now i become independent on money ,so i am able to make it true.but that may takes many years.i plan to go out of my province at least twice a year.because of  working ,i don't really have much holidays.