So this post is going to be pretty short since last week
nothing very exciting happened, except for Halloween. But that wasn't the
greatest experience ever. In China, Halloween isn't celebrated very much, due
to the fact that it’s a foreign holiday, and even when it is celebrated, it’s
westerners who do most of the celebrating.
I thought maybe it would be fun to go to a Halloween party
with a few of my fellow exchange student friends, but it was really bad.
The party itself was in a castle in Tianjin called Dynasty Chateâu, which was meant
to be a recreation of the castle of Versailles, and part of the Louvre. It was
very lack luster compared to the real thing. But that’s not the bad thing. No,
the bad thing was that the people in charge of organizing this Halloween party
sold more tickets than they meant to, leading to the place being over crowded,
and police being called in to break up the crowds. My friends and I were forced
to stand outside for over three hours in freezing temperatures with thousands
of other people while being pushed around and nearly getting trampled because
it was so crowded. Also, none of the buses which brought us there would leave
until 5am, so we didn't get back to Beijing until 7am.
Needless to say, it was a bad experience, and I know never
to go to anything like it again.
Here's a few pictures though:
Here's a few pictures though:
My friend Alexa
My friends Alexa and Diana
I'm afraid most of my pictures were too blurry to make anything out, so here's a link to a picture I found online of it (so you get an idea of what this place was like):
Other than that, I’ve been doing homework and trying to
prepare for tests, and getting much needed sleep. See you next time!
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