First Impressions

So there we are... Dizzy from a 9 and 1/2 hours long flight, jet lagged and just plain tired, my mind is not quite focused enough to fully realize where we are... Slowly, after quite a few signs with Chinese characters, and a lot of Zhong Wen sounds (Mandarin language), I kind of get more aware. We meet our agent, Grace, who help us getting to our apartment. During our taxi ride from the airport, I feel we are slowly entering a new world. Buildings are densely packing the sides of the road, the traffic slows us down, and as the sun goes down the lights of the city appears more and more bright and dense as we enter the CBD (Central Business District). We are here, in Beijing!!! It feel big, bright, new and dense to me. I never have lived in such large city before...

De first impesssions 07-oct.-2008 21:50

De first impesssions 07-oct.-2008 21:50

De first impesssions 07-oct.-2008 21:50

De first impesssions 07-oct.-2008 21:50

After settling down some details with Grace and the owner representative, we head out for a bite. Japanese food, but no sushi. If tastes more like Korean food to us, but it is still good. After our meal, in an attempt to get Noam to fall asleep, we walk around our large city block, and stroll in front of the stores at the bottom of our complex of 25 towers.  After a few minutes, Pauli makes me realise a strange thing: for all this bright light, the whole place is very very quiet. We are downtown Beijing, it is light up like New York Times Square, but there is barely a noise! Strange!  However, no matter how quiet, Noam wore us off and we headed back to our place with a wide awake baby!