Snow Day in Beijing

Today it has snowed for a couple hours in Beijing. This is the most snow since I’ve been here. It is nothing like what has happened in Japan recently. Sure enough I saw a girl wearing a short denim skirt. Not being a very good voyeur or stalker I continued on with my business to buy ‘totes’. Basically plastic boxes with lids that I planned to use to move from my apartment to a dorm.

After buying my totes I went to the Starbucks by the East Gate of Tsinghua. I didn’t need a coffee but I wanted to try yet another WiFi network. I’ve been having a terrible time checking my email the last few days. My ADSL connection may have been cancelled and I’ve tried three different WiFi networks in Wu Dao Kou and it always times out. This has made emailing, looking for work, and of course blogging nearly impossible.

Anyway at the Starbucks was the girl and a friend also wearing a skirt. So after debating it, I went over and asked if she was cold wearing a short skirt today. She said no. She also could tell by my horrible Chinese and switched to English. Of course she speaks perfect English. She and her friend are both Korean, validating Julia‘s theory, and they study at Peking university. One of them studies Chinese and the other studies piano. We talked for a while but they weren’t down with having their picture taken so you’ll just have to take my word for it, that it was snowing and yet some Korean girls wore short skirts with bare legs.

Update February 2019

Today is a snow day on Vancouver Island but not as bad as last time I was at my mom’s house. I’m once again in Canada, once again unemployed so I’m trying to be productive and even though it is Hockey Day in Canada I’m editing old blog posts to improve the Quality and try to leverage my blog to improve my personal branding and career prospects, so far it has not worked. You can leave suggestions below.

This entry was originaly posted on January 12th, 2006, it was last edited on February 9th, 2019 and is filed under: Asia and tagged: Beijing, Korean, Wu Dao Kou.