2. May 2008 by ilanamong.

Everything is packed up and ready to go. We just went out to our last lunch. We ordered a meat dish and the waitress asked if we liked horse, because that dish was horse. We didn’t order it. Later, we figured out that she was probably saying hot, as in spicy. I’m glad we didn’t take the chance though. They did have donkey and snake on the menu. We got a chicken dish that came out in a little pot that sat on top of a burner to heat it up–it was yummy. We also had some noodle soup and vegetables.

I have to turn off the computer because we are on our way to the airport. Our first flight to Chicago is 11 hours long.

Goodbye China. We had a great time!

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1. May 2008 by ilanamong.

Today we went to see the olympic village. We thought it would be cool to see the Olympic stadium. We went and ended up about a parking lot away from the stadium. It is really awesome, but I wish the construction work wasn’t there and we could get closer or possibly  go inside. After being disappointed about the stadium we went to go get a bite. We went into a restaurant in a hotel. We got spicy chicken, spicy beef, and dumplings with vegetables in them. The whole menu was in Chinese but the waitress spoke a little English and helped us pick the dishes. All of it, even the dumplings, were pretty good. Then we went home and rested for a long time. Doing homework, practicing on my musical instrument (hulusi), and playing toss with my brother’s stuffed animal dog. Sadly the toy I brought here was a panda and got lost. We think that when they went to clean the covers they took the panda with it accidentally. Now h’m about to go to the roast duck restaurant again for the last time. Today is my last full day in Beijing.

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