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Today was unexpectedly long feeling....

I woke up at 8:30 for no reason at all and talked on the comp to family and friends for awhile until we decided to go out to the street fair which was  a bus ride and a few subway rides away. We took a bus to the subway stop where I bought a transit card, so now I can travel around on public transportation for less. Hooray. The bus and subway were shoulder to shoulder people which I'm told is actually pretty empty for a Chinese bus/subway...can't wait til all those 10 million people come back from their vacations...

We got to the fair, bought tickets and walked around....there was a lot to see and buy and eat but not too many interesting activities. There was a supposed 'freak show' but we were too skeptical to go inside. The festival itself very crowded and they were selling a lot of silly things including huge glasses with '2008' on them, funny colored wigs, mylar windmills, and about a million  types of weird schlack on a stick that you wave around in the air to be festive. We walked around for a really long time, took a lot of pictures and got REALLY cold. I have to say though, its really amazing to see all these Chinese people all in one place Scott bought a Chinese yo-yo and Matt bought a communist hat. I shenged my qian because I know fair goods are not good quality.

After the fair we took the subway to a restaurant that Michelle, a girl who's already been in Beijing for 9 months knew. The food was pretty good and there was a mini chinese dance performance during dinner! Neat! After we ate we took the bus back to campus where I literally had to crawl up the stairs because my legs wouldn't carry me anymore. Emily, my other RA, is probably going to take me to the hospital tomorrow, if nothing else so I can get a knee brace and some more drugs, pray that nothing is actually wrong with me everyone. Wish me luck.

Pictures
- FESTIVAL...this means red lanterns...everywhere
- Some of my floor: Persephone, Alba and Jingo...(thats the back of Michelle's head, she doesn't live with us though)
- A very festive fellow
- A view of how crowded this thing was
- CHINESE DANCING!!! (I feel this girl and I look sort of alike)