This is actually an old one, but it's from a really fun night we spent at Tiananmen Square. We got there just before sunset and saw the lowering of the flag with a huge mass of other people. We walked around and got to see all of the standard Beijing sites. As usual, us foreigners were quite the spectacle - at one point, a pair of Chinese twins asked to take a picture with me and a friend of mine (these strange requests have actually been repeated a few times in various places). I can't imagine how weird we must look that people ask to take pictures with us; or, more commonly, furtively take pictures when we don't appear to be looking. A friend of mine named Lei Zhen (Thunder Earthquake... a.k.a. John) has it worse - several Chinese children upon seeing him have run away or began crying. He doesn't seem too bothered by it, saying seeing us must be like how an American child would feel seeing an alien right out of Independence Day.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tiananmen Square
This is actually an old one, but it's from a really fun night we spent at Tiananmen Square. We got there just before sunset and saw the lowering of the flag with a huge mass of other people. We walked around and got to see all of the standard Beijing sites. As usual, us foreigners were quite the spectacle - at one point, a pair of Chinese twins asked to take a picture with me and a friend of mine (these strange requests have actually been repeated a few times in various places). I can't imagine how weird we must look that people ask to take pictures with us; or, more commonly, furtively take pictures when we don't appear to be looking. A friend of mine named Lei Zhen (Thunder Earthquake... a.k.a. John) has it worse - several Chinese children upon seeing him have run away or began crying. He doesn't seem too bothered by it, saying seeing us must be like how an American child would feel seeing an alien right out of Independence Day.
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