Friday night! 后海

Tests over for the week; homework over - we went out for an adventure.
I want to say that I'll write up a good account of things tomorrow,
but so far I haven't been very good at writing things up at all.

Pictures:
1. A street. We did a lot of walking.
2. A picture of the sun over Houhai, a pretty patch of water; I don't
really know the history behind it, but it's a nice tourist / anyone
relaxing area of the city. It has a lot of bars as well. It was
unbearably humid today, the smog was terrible. I didn't bother taking
a lot of pictures over the water because all of the color was gone
from everything and it was just smoggy a couple hundred feet away
across the water. So this is the sun, around 6:30. It is pretty
though...
3. After a good long wander, an a comparatively expensive dinner at a
comparatively not-so-good restaurant, we decided to have an adventure
on the way back to Bei Shi Da (北师大, our host university). We went
through some hutongs; which are some of the older, less modern parts
of Beijing. It was kind of dark and more than a little sketchy, but
not as sketchy as that alleyway to the park...

Tomorrow, the Great Wall!