So I went to pay the rest of the ba ya fees (teeth extraction) and returned to the Forbidden City to meet some friends, unfortunately I was an hour late due to traffic 🙂 so I wandered around the Forbidden City, or what was open of it in the evening. Such a magnificent place! Huge, and looming, enclosing and protective. Dragons gazing paternally over a city loved, the ages reaching out to brush your cheek. I love China!
On the way home, there was this old lady at the bottom of an escalator, she looked terrified! I stopped and asked her if she wanted help, and then helped her get on and off the escalator, she looked like she would cry. It turned out she had a bad foot and could barely walk. What a hero. It is easy to take for granted our systems in Australia, but in China if you are old, or disabled and without family, you are done for. No one will care. It is quite sad.
Stewart has done the membership database! Rock on Steart, to be released to the public in the coming days, but it rocks nevertheless 🙂 Nominations will be open at the same time, and we can finally get this boat on the water. Roll up for LA elections! 🙂
Went and bought some stuff today with Natalie, my roommate. She is pretty kewl and we are having fun wraking havoc in the quite dusty suburbs of Beijing! Had a full crowd this afternoon watching us and being amused with our Chinese. Lotsa fun.