Lov(in') Beijing

(Warning: Major ick-alert)

This past week I've spent with my man, who'd come all the way to China to see me, just in time for our year and a half anniversary.

We've spent time being that annoyingly lovey-dovey couple.

Thank God Vidar has already been to Beijing before, and we didn't have to waste time doing anything cultivated.

We've slept in, watched the fourth season of True Blood, binged and, yeah.

Vidar's birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and despite the fact that my apartment here in Beijing is awesome.. (insert: a little reminder:)

.. it does not have a big bath tub. *snigger*

So as a belated birthday present I booked us a room at A. hotel at Workers Stadium in Sanlitun for a couple of nights.

It was super cheesy with a big bath tub in front of the bed.

Loved it!

Vidar loves it when I force him to pose for photos

Not. *Voice of Borat*

This morning I saw Vidar off at the airport, and it's time to roll up the sleeves and get ready for the final ten weeks in China. It all starts off with three mid-term exams the coming week; two of them being on the same day - coincidentally being my birthday (Thursday Oct. 13th). Awesomeness!

Anyway, I feel motivated and energetic, and ready fight! 

I love Beijing and my life here, but at home awaits my biggest love and a new chapter of my life, and I can't wait to go get it.

Hanging Out in Sanlitun

Ingeborg, Klara and I

Yesterday Lotte and I went with our neighbors and Norwegian classmates Klara and Ingeborg to a part of town called Sanlitun, to have a look around.

Too bad I didn't get pretty until I was too old to model
- look at those posing skills! Admirable

Ingeborg had a close encounter with the pavement earlier this week,
being in a minor accident on her skateboard.

Mmm, dog stew

The first week in Beijing we sat in the park outside our building
together with the real estate agent waiting for our landlord
A bunch of people were out with their dogs,
I made sure to point to one of them and ask the real estate agent deliberately like a stupid tourist
"That one, delicious?"
And he looked at me and terrified waved his hand "No!!"
And then I laughed an evil laugh.
(Mind you, he'd already spent a few hours with me
that very same day and knew I was kidding)

But seriously,
when in Rome, ehr China

I'll eat anything as long as it's food, tastes good and doesn't get me sick


But I doubt that I'll come across dog meat being sold
here in Beijing, anyway
- at least not on my path

Besides, due to the one-child policy in China,
people have dogs instead and treat them as their kids
I doubt they'd eat them

In the middle of all of the fancy shops and buildings there were a big water fountain thing where a lot of kids were playing

Admiring the fountain

Coming over for a snuggle