Chinaland, part 2

My second day in Beijing was great, like all of them, to be honest. It was Sunday, so we had whole day to do the sightseeing. We visited Beijing zoo, which was so big that it took the whole first part of the day. Really, Finnish zoo is nothing compared to it. I saw so many animals I've never seen before, and the absolute highlight was the giant panda. There was 4 of them, one adult of the zoo, one baby panda of zoo, one olympic house panda and one asian games panda. I like the baby panda and the olympic one, which was eating bamboo very eagerly :) It was so cute! In evening, we went to a very fine restaurant and ate there super delicious Chinese food. I think everyone at the table was having fun watching me tasting all kind of new things :D I had fun, too.

Back from China xoxo

I know, there has been too long gap again between my writings, but I hope you'd forgive me. Now I really do have something to write about as I just returned to this depressing, closed and poor town from huge, brilliant, awesome and ... the best place I've ever been, China! I'm 100% sure that I've lived there in my former life because I've never felt so familiar and cosy ever before.
Since I got to experience so many things during these 10 days, I'll write always about one day/posting.

Day 1:
We left Finland on Friday afternoon at 6pm, and the flight took about 8 hours and 20 minutes. It's +5 h in China, so the flight was like short night, which I spent by watching movies since I just couldn't sleep on the plane. It was very bad "decicion", as I soon found out, because doing the sightseeing is not so fun when you're in half-coma due to lack of sleep. We arrived to China at 7am where we met the teachers of the friendship school. We went to the school and met our host families (and I must say that my family was the kindest ever!). During the same day we visited the Summer Palace, which was huge and really beautiful place to see. Only bad thing was that I was so tired in the end of the tour that I couldn't really see anything before my eyes and when we got into the car, I noticed that I couldn't stay up any longer. So the rest of the day was spent by taking nap and eating supper, which was Chinese, of course, and also very delicious. That was my first day in China in a nutshell ;)