got up fairly early.
Did a bit of Chinese homework and checked the web before leaving at 9.
We went on a tour of the forbidden city. The place is cool, but always flocked with tourists, and there’s really not that much to say about it that isn’t obvious. I mean, it’s where the emperor lived for a couple dynasties, and you can see the various chambers that receptions were held in – but what’s more impressive are the courtyards and the walls around the palace.
After we finished walking through it, we got back on the bus and drove to the east of the city somewhere for lunch.
Lunch was huge, two ducks (they were different types, although I couldn’t really tell the difference. They came with different sauces that you could eat them with.) The roast duck is really just excessive in my mind to some extent, and it’s still not my favorite food. For each duck you get three plates, one plate of skin, one of skin and meat, and one of just meat. The meat one is the one I like the most, although the skin is the delicacy. It’s pure fat though, which is why I find it hard to eat. We also got a bunch of other food, the potatoes were good, as was the beef soup, the lily, the mushrooms with hot peppers, and the eggplant.
Took the bus back after lunch and got back to campus at two. took a nap in the afternoon since I was full from lunch.
Spent the evening doing homework, got my essay for Thursday written, did the chinese homework and finished studying characters, and got another email sent out for my disp. Pretty productive day, overall