Today I went to Tiananmen Square just like tens of thousands of other people to celebrate the National Day of the People's Rebublic of China. On the 1st of October 1949 the PRC was founded with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. It is the greatest public space on earth with more than 400,000 square meters.
I was there for about two hours I guess and during that time at least 20 people wanted to be in a picture with me. I think many are just not that used to seeing foreigners. I asked a few of them to take a picture with my camera, too :) I have no idea what the Chinese are doing with the pictures they took but I thought it would be nice to put my photos in the blog. Maybe someone is posting pictures of me on the Chinese Facebook 人人 [renren], who knows :) By the way China also has an own YouTube called Youku and something similar to Twitter known as Sina Weibo.
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| The National Museum in the background. |
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| This guy actually didn't ask to be in the picture. |
Yesterday we celebrated the Mooncake Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival). We went boating to Houhai lake. Lots of celebrations going on - on Wednesday Renmin University is celebrating its 75th anniversary. A huuuuge stage has been built on campus and apparently some Chinese pop stars are going to perform there. That's going to be interesting.
I'm currently having a holiday - nice! We had classes on Saturday but then I could say goodbye to studying until Thursday next week. And I'm going to SHANGHAI in a few days! Can't really complain.
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| Queuing for the subway... |
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