The Temple of Heaven ^.^

Where to start... I'm getting to lazy to update this thing. LOL But for Kyles sake Ill keep on writing here. ^.^


2 days ago Me, King, and Jimmy went out to this really cheep market near Beijing Zoo. It took us a hour to get there because we needed to take the bus to the subway, transfer lines 2 times, then another bus. >.<>.<>

Next we went to Mc. Donalds for a snack and then rode the train + bus home. Before we went home we ate dinner at a Pizza Buffet. The pizza buffet was more expensive than most places 45rmb but it was good. Jimmy got 7 plates of food and finished almost all of them. Almost as in 6 places full of food. Fatty LOL ^.^

I got into another argument with king after dinner. I asked King was he going to come home tonight because for the past 3 days he has stayed at his dorm.Suxs for me because without him I cant talk to his grandparents or do much of anything because of my lack of Chinese. King answers "I want to watch gosip girl, so I dont want to go home". >.<>

After a long talk while we where in the Temple and on the train back home we solved our problems. I explained to King how the things he said really hurt me. King insists that I am to serious but that is how I am. AIgooooo

Back to the tittle of this blog LOL

The Temple of Heaven was beautiful. ^.^ Its always amazing to see something that has thousands of years history, and that you have studied about so much in class in real life. The temple is surounded by a large park which is a quite escape from the loudness outside. It cost like 30rmb to go in the whole thing or just 10 rmb to go in the park. You can even get a year long pass to go into the park as much as you want. The park before the temple is really big and pretty. There where many elderly people hanging out playing cards, singing and just chilling. I think the have the year long pass LOL. ^.^

Ok so um King didnt want to go into the actually temple. He was fine with just seing the park and the Temple of Heaven from afar and going. Uh heck naw.... I payed for his ticket and dragged his lazy butt in LOL.

BLOWN!

As seen on facebook. Yesterday Me, King, and Jimmy had a all night movie night till like 5am. ^.^ no wait 6am LOL We went out to the wei-mart, not to be confused with Wal-mart, but the one near our house was closed so off to the one like a mile up the road in the FREEZING cold. Why did we do this? not sure..... We got out snacks and went back and Jimmy was out on the bed. I wanted King & Jimmy to watch The Strangers becuase that was the last scarry movie that actually scarried me and didnt have the traditonal things tooo much blood, too much sex, or the black person dies first. LOL

King Like it I think but Jimmy didnt. I guess they both prefer actually ghost than real crazy people.

The next moring well I should say the next afternoon we to the bank to get set up my bank account and then transfer $3,000 to that bank account then go apply for my visa extention. Ok so apparently in China you cannt extend your visa u have to get a new visa so that means $150 + making a chinese bank account+ $3,000 in a bank account for the 3 month visa you are applying for. So we go to the local chinese bank and we are told to go to the bigger branch. So we do then they tell us they have no ideal about wire transfers. I have never herd of a bank that didnt know what a bank transfer or wire transfer was. They also said that my debit card didnt work and I couldnt withdrawl money from there atm.

I was so pist off and determined to either go home or go to Japan early before my visa expires. This whole process was stupid, as if China didnt want foreigners to be there. King saw how upset I was and tried to confort me but it didnt make since to me at all how such a simple process is sooo complex.

Tomorrow we are going to try a even bigger Chinese bank either HSBC with is international & or Bank of China. Im going to call the visa office and make sure that you cant just use your own local bank because I wouldnt know many foreigners that have there money in Chinese banks that dont live in China. In the booklet as well as online it doesnt say you must have your money in a Chinese banks so im like WTF. I really hope this works out but Im so fustrated right now, and being pushed to my limit. Its even worse cause I have the money and the means to leave China right now.

Tomorrow will be the deciding point cause if these banks dont work then Im either leaving her early or going home.

On a brighter note. King, Jimmy & I finaly took purikura today. But I still have no scanner so no way to upload here. :-(

Best Shot from last night

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, >.<

Bored again and just writing here to pass time. I have been siting here all day, waiting for King to come home so we could go out and have fun today. I was told that he would be home around 11 or 12 so I woke up around 11 took a shower and was ready to go. However It currently 7pm and I haven't gone anywhere today. I called him around 2 and he said he wanted to sleep more since he went to bed at 5 am. Why... I have no ideal. Sigh so i called him at 3:40, 5ish and 6 to find out that his phone was off. I got a message about 30mins from now saying sorry i slept all day ill be home for dinner. WTF is all I can say

Im quite done. With all the stress of needing to extend or basicly get a whole new visa for China, having my parents wire me $3,000 dollars because the Chinese Government wants to know u have m$100 per day eventhough I wont be here for the 23days of that new visa. So about all the things we could have done today u know start the process to renew my visa, get my visa for Japan, gone shopping or whatever..... I spent today playing my ds and watching House (thanks again Kyle ^.^)

Aigoooo yesterday I got to go shopping with King and his friends. However 80% of the time where were out King was shopping for a new coat. We spent like 2 hours looking for a coat in one department store and by time we finished it was time to leave cause we had to get home in time for dinner >.<.

Sigh still 2 more weeks and afew days till I go to Japan and I can't wait.....

Sometimes I think I shoulda went home for this winterbreak, When I think more I could have went home but I planned so early to come here. ....

Outing with 오빠 아싸ㅋㅋㅋ

Yesterday I hung out with Young. For yall who dont know Young is my Korean friend who doesn't live in Seoul LOL and the year when I decided to spend a semester in Korea goes to spend a semester in China >.<>.< King helped me take the subway to Beijing Station to find Young and his friend. However when we got there we couldnt find them for like 30mins because China has tooo many KFC and McDonalds in the SAME AREA!
Young said meet him in KFC and would you believe there where 4 in the same place. One in the train station, one across the street from the train station, one down the street from the train station. Geeeez But we finaly found them.

King look so fustrated and worried leaving me with my friends. LOL He look sooo much like father.. sooo much it was scarry. With the serious face, and reminding me about everything, " Do you have money on your phone, do you have my number written down incase you lose your phone or its stolen, pay attention to the stops, the signs are in english read them... ^.^ But thatshows he really cared and was worried about my safety.

Young took me to Wangfujing which is a REALLY expensive shopping place. However every place was having a sale so it wasnt sooo expensive just alittle. LOL I forgot that Korean's love brands and fashion so LOL yeah we spend the WHOLE day in the malls shopping. I got myself a hoddie and some lotion, facial cream, and a pooh plushie. LOL I saw afew things I liked but I know I can find clothes MUCH cheeper here so I figure I wait and get more for my money.

Young is like a girl LOL I love that boy but he was looking a plushies and calling them cute and has over 10 pairs of shoes. Also that was all we looked at yesterday was shoes. LOL

China wahhhhhh!

Yay I finally found some time to update this thing I just hope the internet lets me actually write this without shutting off or closing or whatever >.<>.<>.<>.<>.< LOL I checked my email and passed out on the bed. I woke up to Kings lovely fart around 1pm the next day LOL LOL I love king to bits but his farts be soundin NASTY ^.^

Ok another thing about one of Kings cousin's is that someone loved Anime like I mean DBZ in the bathroom, Gundam Figures around the room where I was, Death Note figures, Manga everywhere, and in the computer room Pikachu on the blinds. LOL And I thought I liked Anime ^.^ One of Kings Cousins wsa nice enough to give me his figure of L. L's face changes and so does his arms. Its soo cute.

SO we chilled out at the family members house till like 4 or 5 then went to eat dinner at a restaurant with more family. After we ate dinner we went to the movies theater, not to see a movie but to go to the HUGE Arcade in the movie theater. I owned Time Crisis 4 cause of all the times I played Byunghoon (Cry Cry :-( ) I mostly played shooting stuff, and Taiko. Ok I need to rant about that for a bit. Ok so I had no Ideal that there was a CHINESE Taiko game. I really really want to buy this but I'm not sure if they made this for any system. It was cool to play Taiko to Wang Lee hom and Micheal Wong, and S.H.E. ^.^ Ok but Chinese DDR is HARD you have to use your hands as well as your feet. LOL I really want to play Japanese DDR . the Chinese DDR is a better than the Korean one but I want the original where you just use your feet.

Finally after all of this we went back to Kings house. I was so happy when we went back home

Pictures from Kings Birthday ^.^