NOW IT'S PERSONAL-CHERYL'S STORY

A few of my favourite students from class 8 grade 5

The past couple of weeks, many of my students have been preparing for an English Talent Competition being put on in Changsha. For the competition, the students must perform a talent related to English-think speech, story, skit, etc. Being a foreign teacher, I was asked to come and watch a few of my classes "audition" to be chosen as one of few students from Tian Hua to represent our school in the city wide version of the event. I was very pleased to be invited to view class 8 grade 5's talent audition, as this class is probably my favourite of all the classes I teach. Part of the reason I love this class so much is because of two young girls in the class- Amy and Cheryl. I met Amy and Cheryl the day I went on the class trip to the zoo. Both of them, usually a bit reserved during lessons were very eager to hang out with me all day and they both shared that they had spent some time overseas going to school (Amy spent 1 year in Australia and Cheryl 2 in the United States). Because of this, these girls have a very high English level in comparison to the other students and I am able to have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. Of course, both girls would be auditioning for the Talent Competition and Cheryl bravely chose to get up in front of the class first. I had already seen a few other classes do the same thing and many had been filled with boring impersonal speeches "My name is .....  I am ...years old there are ... people in my family" - you get the point. When Cheryl got up, I just knew hers would be different and was I sure right!

Cheryl decided to talk about her experience living overseas. She started by saying how her mother had gotten a job in America and that her family decided to move there to be together. Cheryl said how nervous she was to go to school in the US. "My English wasn't very good so I was scared. Would I understand what the teacher was saying? Would I be able to make friends? Would there be any other Chinese kids?" She went for her first day of school and sure enough, Cheryl was discouraged to find out that she couldn't really understand what the teacher was saying. She said it was extremely intimidating. Since Cheryl had no choice but to figure things out, her parents enrolled her in an afterschool ESL program and Cheryl told us about the many hours she would spend after school with her ESL teacher practicing and learning English and working very hard. It didn't take long, and Cheryl's English had improved and she was able to understand the teacher and she was able to communicate with her classmates. "I just want to share with my classmates that if you work hard at something and don't give up, you will succeed. I studied very hard and now my English is very good and I am so happy that I did. It was very hard but I didn't give up, I just kept practicing."

Cheryl's words gave me butterflies in my stomach. How many times back home had I come across people who were just like her. Living in a foreign country, trying to adapt and trying to learn English. I thought about how sometimes it took a bit of patience to communicate with these people but how I knew they were making an honest and sincere effort to get their point across. Whether these people be workers at McDonalds, cooks at the Tower, fuel attendants at the gas station, or just someone asking for help in the grocery store..these people were just like Cheryl. How many times have people complained about these people not having the best english? How many times have we heard people complain.."They got my frickin order wrong! They need to learn English or get the f*** out of Canada!" "All these people living in Canada not knowing English are annoying, learn English!" But have we ever considered how difficult it can be for these people sometimes?

Now when I see people constantly being ignorant and complaining about this, I just think, those people that they are complaining about, lipping off, or being outright rude and excluding towards; those are my students, that's Cheryl. Cheryl, the girl that I see every Thursday morning, the girl who works so hard to learn English in school, the girl who moved to America and was thrown into the mix and worked so hard to improve her English skills, the girl standing in front of me encouraging her classmates to persevere and that hard work pays off.

What Cheryl gave me that day, I can't thank her enough for. She didn't just share her experience with me, one that we now talk about nearly every time I see her (it is very interesting to see what she thinks of the Chinese school system vs. the American), but she gave me motivation to keep doing my job to the best of my ability. Some days working as an English teacher in China can be really tough, but seeing kids like Cheryl reminds me why I love my job. I was blessed to grow up in Canada and have English, the most widely understood language in the world, as my first language. Living in China and not being fluent in Chinese, I can really relate to what it's like for someone new to Canada, it can be very frustrating sometimes and I am always so grateful when locals will take the time to speak slow to me and be patient with my broken Chinese. If I can help my students to become more fluent in English and give them the confidence to keep practicing, then I will truly feel like I have done something. Cheryl is just one of many great hardworking students I teach everyday and by hearing her story,  I really hope that it can inspire not only me but all of you guys back home to be patient, understanding, and kind to the people who are part of your daily lives that are learning English as a second language.

I should have never went zip-lining - Inner Mongolia Edition

I am usually not one for organized tour trips. I find they can be a huge let down. You don't always get to see everything because you spent so much time waiting on other people. Not to mention I like to do what I want to do when I want to do it. If I'm hungry I want to eat and it better be food that I want and being paraded around like cattle in a foreign country just isn't my definition of fun. During Golden week, IES Global ( the company that I work with in China) organized a trip to Inner Mongolia. I wasn't too keen on being toured around on a bus, but since it was a way to see a lot of people I met and became so close with in Beijing I was easily convinced to join in on the trip, with the impression that the tour wouldn't be so touristy and that we would have a lot of fun. Well, let's just say I learnt a lesson and I, Amber Dukart swear to never take a guided tour on a bus ever again! If it wasn't for being with some of the most awesome people on the face of the planet I probably would have came home in a body bag. Problem One: Our tour guide was a complete retard. He was under the impression that we were all idiots and were visiting China with a lot of cash in our pockets to burn Problem Two: I had eaten something our first night which gave me food poisoning so I spent the entire trip with extremely bad travellers sickness (aka very bad diarrhea) Problem Three: it was FREEZING cold in Inner Mongolia and I hadn't brought enough warm clothes because I was told a sweater would do Problem Four: a tour bus on roads in China seems to always take longer than you could possibly imagine (the typically 3 hour bus ride from Batou to Hohhot took us 8 hours!)

Let's put these facts all together. I am on a bus for 8 hours listening to an extremely annoying tour guide freezing my ass off and desperately needing to use the toilet...yeah Inner Mongolia, fantastic place!

Ok, so it really wasn't that bad..the trip had a lot of positive points which ultimately made it worth it but I learnt my lesson and don't see myself on a guided tour involving a bus for a very long time, not until I'm old and wear depends.

It was such a riot being reunited with everyone and we made were able to have so much fun just laughing at how ridiculous the whole ordeal was. The first stop of the tour was the grasslands. We went horseback riding through the grasslands which was pretty cool but keep in mind I was on the back of a horse in the middle of nowhere for 3 hours with diarrhea. I hope you are laughing at me right now because I know I'm laughing at myself. One of the other highlights of Inner Mongolia was the day we spent on the dessert. We had such a great time there! Camel riding, quading, riding in dune buggies and sliding down a massive sand dune on a board (basically tobogganing with sand instead of snow) were all wicked fun! Once again, I have some great photos to share but due to shitty internet, I can't post. (seriously large sad face). Another memorable place during our trip was the Buddhist temple in Hohhot.  At first glance, there wasn't anything overtly special about this temple, it was just your average Chinese Buddhist temple. But after spending a few minutes inside we found it to be the best one we have been in thus far! The temples we visited in Beijing were extremely crowded with people and you couldn't really appreciate it. But here in Hohhot, there were very few tourists and you could really get a sense of peacefulness. We definitely lucked out as well because while we were there all of the monks that were living in the temple had their daily gathering and did a prayer ceremony. Very cool to witness especially since the temple in Beijing didn't really have many monks hanging about.

Inner Mongolia is a very beautiful area of China and one that most people don't make it to when they come to visit. I think it's overlooked by most because of it's remote location in comparison to the rest of China and it is a trip I will never forget (I think more of because of the circumstances that made it such a hilarious trip rather than the trip itself) I am glad I went even if it meant being on a tour bus with a shitty tour guide and diarrhea. At least I learnt my lesson, NEVER go on a tour bus trip again!

A VISIT TO 西安 (Xi'an)

The first week of October here in China is known as Golden Week. During this time of year, the Chinese celebrate 中秋街 which is  Mid-Autumn Festival or Full Moon Festival in English. This is basically their version of Thanksgiving in some shape or form as it is a time for Chinese families to get together and eat moon cakes (cakes with a usually sweet filling in them that are either something you love or hate). In honour of this special holiday, the Chinese are given a week holidays. I decided to make the most of my time off and check off a few places on my list of things to do in China that seems to be getting longer and longer as I discover even more beautiful places to visit. First stop on my Golden Week adventures was to the beautiful city of Xi'an.

Xi'an is absolutely beautiful and if you ever get the chance to visit China, Xi'an better be at the top of your list. Screw Beijing or Shanghai, Xi'an is the real deal when it comes to mainland China. Most people know Xi'an to be the home of the Terra-cotta Army, one of the most spectacular archaeological finds in the world. I remember learning about it in my Arky1000 textbook and let me tell you it's pretty cool in real life. Xi'an has much more to offer the eager traveller than just the Teracotta Army though. This city, just like nearly everywhere else in China has a rich cultural history and is also rapidly expanding and growing with new skyscrapers going up left right and center. What makes this place stand out from the rest though is the way they have made an effort to keep the old Chinese touches. Xi'an is one of few cities that still has it's city walls standing. Modern life sometimes takes over in China. For instance, the city walls of Beijing were taken down in order to construct the subway system (seems crazy I know but hey, This is China!) Not only is the city wall still up in tact, but the old drum and bell tower are still up and standing and the city has been built around these old monuments. Old style Chinese character is still used in buildings and the city, although large and busy has a very peaceful and serene feel to it. It took five minutes of standing outside the hostel on our first day there to feel the peacefulness of this place and realize that I absolutely loved it. Walking down the streets of Xi'an gave me a really great feeling. even though it is a massive city, it felt so peaceful. In Changsha, you are constantly hearing the honking of horns but in Xi'an it was oddly quiet even though it was bustling full of people visiting for the holidays. My favourite place in Xi'an was the city walls. Our second morning there, we went up top to check it out. We ended up renting bikes and biking around the entire circumference of the wall. It was so exhilarating! Although the wall was a bit rough and bumpy for biking, the view of the city was stellar! A city composed to modern and ancient and although the hustle and bustle of the city hadn't stopped, there was a sense of peace up on the wall. It was like being a bird. You could see everything going on but there was a separation between you and the rest of the city. It was a great morning to peacefully cycle the wall, take in the city, and collect my thoughts.

Another fantastic thing about Xi'an is the Muslim Quarter. Xi'an lies near the end of the Silk Road, so it is very culturally diverse which makes it even cooler! There is a section of the city known as the Muslim Quarter where the Chinese Muslims reside and let me tell you, if you come to Xi'an, you can't miss out on this place and you better come with a hungry stomach! Weaving through narrow old Hutong style streets, there are many Muslims selling all kinds of delicious street foods, hand crafts, tea, and fruit. Some of our groups favourites to snatch up to eat on the streets of the Muslim Quarter were 

羊肉泡馍 (yangrou paomo- a mutton and bread soup), pumpkin flavoured yuebing (moon cake), noodles with a cold sesame type sauce and these pancakes that were filled with meat and spices (tai hao che- delicious!). The last day in Xi'an we went back to the Muslim quarter and tried out a little restaurant on one of the less popular side streets and had some deicious and spicy dumplings and some fantastic noodles with tons of vegetables. My stomach really loved the Muslim Quarter and I would definitely say it was some of the best food I have eaten in China.

Everything during our trip in Xi'an went quite smoothly and you might think considering this is China, that's too good to be true right? Well you are totally right. We had a little bit a of a disappointment in Xi'an that makes a hilarious China story. Our last day in Xi'an, we decided to join some Chinese friends we met on a trip out HuaShan (one of the most famous mountains in China and for good reason..although I really wouldn't know but we will get to that!) We got some last minute train tickets to Huashan and were planning on leaving in the afternoon to make the two hour train journey there where we would hike up the mountain, spend the night and watch the sunrise then come back down and catch our train back to Xi'an in order to make out flight to Hohhot that we couldn't miss. We had it all worked out and had just enough time to be able to sneak this last minute day trip in. Well we get on the train and make it the two hours to Huashan, get off the train as the sun is setting and hop in a black taxi and head towards the gates to the mountain park. Thank god we were with some Chinese friends or we would have been royally screwed. They asked the driver the details of the park and if we would have enough time to get up there and back down. Well his response was not exactly what we wanted to hear. "Are you crazy! It's Mid-Autumn Festival there are 10,000 people on that mountain! There is a four hour line to get on the gondola up and if you want to climb up it, it will take you 6 hours (normally only about 2)" Well we obviously couldn't do it, there was no way in hell we would get up there and back down and still make our flight the next day. We just wasted two hours on the train plus the time in Huashan and didn't see a thing. Sam and our Chinese friends were able to go up the mountain because they didn't have a flight to catch the next day so we bid them farewell and good luck with tackling all the people and we hopped in a taxi and headed back for the train station. In the taxi, the four of us were laughing hysterically at the day we just had. It was dark and we didn't even get to see the mountain and being so tired we thankfully were able to laugh it off. It was also pretty funny how there was 10,000 people on a mountain. That's just insane. Even on the busiest ski hill in Canada, there would never be that many people! I'm sitting here at my desk laughing out loud at this but unfortunately it's so hard to write it in a way to make you guys find it was funny as we did. We got back to the train station and had about an hour to kill in this dinky ass town before the next train went to Xi'an, so we grabbed a few beers and sat on the steps outside of a very old run down hotel/shop and my friend Miguel pulled out his guitar and starting playing as I sang along. Picture this, four foreigners sitting on the steps of this run down joint, beer in hand with backpacks and a guitar singing English. We gathered quite the crowd and we had a few Chinese people who came and sat to listen to us, including a policeman. I wish I had photo evidence of this moment as even I wish to see what it must have looked like, drinking beer and attempting to make conversation with a uniformed Chinese police man..another example of the insanity of China. 

All in all, Xi'an was an amazing trip and I would go back in a heartbeat and actually get to see and climb Huashan (on a side note, Sam said it took him 7 hours to get up the mountain and the steps were packed with people and it was literally a line up the hill moving slowly step by step and another 6 to get back down). We made the most of the time we had and ended up coming home with one of my favourite China stories so far. I would love to post some photos but Chinese internet is very dodgy and they unfortunately just won't upload..I will keep trying though!

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CHINESE TEACHER

Hello Everyone..my apologies I really really suck at keeping up to date with my blog and I promise to try to be a more interesting blog to stop by. I have many stories to write about to catch p with the past month but the first one is about my day today. Today is Wednesday, just another day at the office here in China. I have been teaching here at Shazitang Education Group for two full months now and have settled into my role as the grade 5 foreign English teacher. Since I am only an intern, I have it pretty easy most days in terms of work load. School here in China is structured much differently than school back in Canada. I work at a boarding school so students live in dorms (did I mention I teach at a primary school? this means these kids live at the school 5 days a week at age 6!). The working day for these kids starts at 7:15am. I have to be at the school for 7:45 to have breakfast before heading to my office to plan lessons and then teach a few morning lessons. For me, I usually teach 3 or 4 lessons each morning, have lunch followed by a rest time (the most glorious two hours of the day, which lately I haven't been lucky enough to get). Afternoons are typically pretty laid back for us foreign teachers. We plan lessons in the office, learn Chinese, or plan and run some fun activities and workshops for students. After dinner at 5:30, we get to go home for the day. But the working day is not even close to finished for the students and other teachers. They continue to have lessons until 8:30 at night! In case you didn't put 2 and 2 together, this means that these kids are in school from 7:30am until 8:30pm!! Makes me take back my days of complaining about 9-3:30!

Today I got the taste of what it is like to work as a full time Chinese teacher and man, do I give them huge credit. The amount of time and energy teachers here put into their job is absolutely insane and I can say that I truly appreciate what teachers do. Being one of only 6 foreign teachers with 6 school campuses and 10,000 students can make you a hot commodity and we tend to get some days that are jam packed full of lessons and activities. Today was one of those days. We had lessons in the morning followed by a trip to another campus to put on Halloween activities and games for the afternoon and then rushed back to the main campus to do a few evening lessons. After a whirlwind of a day I am so happy to be sitting on my bed and enjoying a cup of tea. And to think that most teachers here do this everyday. This absolutely blows my mind! Today really gave me an insight in to how hard Chinese teachers and students really work. Every single day of the week the students study away at school for hours and hours in hopes of being smart enough to one day be accepted into university.

I guess the point that I am trying to make is that we have it so easy back in Canada. Our school system is set up so that students get to learn while having fun and we understand that childhood is important and allow students to enjoy it and make the most of it. Here in China, kids spend their childhood at a desk in school for 13 hours a day with a pile of books and not to mention the homework that follows. It might sound absurd. You might be reading this thinking, why? what's the point? Well in a country with a population of 1.4 billion there is a stiff competition to get into a prestigious school and let me tell you, there are many students who want a spot at a top notch university, even just any university really. For us in Canada when we graduate high school we have endless options as to where we can study. Yeah sure, institutions can weed people out by charging a certain amount for tuition and setting a standard for what kind of marks you have to obtain to gain admittance into their institution but when it's all said in done, if you want to go to university, you will get in somewhere and be able to go. In China, it doesn't work that way. You have to work extremely hard to get yourself a spot in a university and the competition begins at an extremely early age.

Think back to when you were a student in elementary school. What do you remember? The fun you had with friends at recess and all the fun games and activities and school projects you did in the classroom? Hanging out with friends after school, playing sports or having dance lessons? If this sounds about right for you then you are extremely fortunate to have such positive memories because for the students that I stand in front of and teach everyday, the majority of their childhood is spent sitting in a desk, nose in the book.

Today was a great friendly reminder to be appreciative for where I come from and was a great chance to spend a day in the life of a Chinese teacher. I hope you can learn something from the day that I had as well. If you're interested in learning more about how different the Chinese school system is from ours in Canada, click on this link to  watch BBC's series, Chinese Schools  Very enlightening!

Cheers!

ORANGE ISLE MUSIC FESTIVAL

This past weekend, the six of interns decided to go to Changsha's annual Orange Isle Music Fest to see what Chinese music fests were all about and compare them to ones back home. The day (abruptly) began at 1pm when I was awoken by Fran who came knocking on my bedroom door saying that we were leaving right that minute for the festival. I still drunkenly stumbled out of my bed threw some clothes on and grabbed my stuff and out the door we went! The fest took place on Changsha's Orange Island which is absolutely gorgeous! We arrived at the festival and mulled around to see what was all there. There were two stages and many food venders (selling Chinese food of course) and a lot of local people that set up shop selling the most random items (so Chinese). We sat on the grass on the side of the main stage and watched a few performers, getting up occasionally to grab some food and water. It also didn't take us long to find the beer gardens..the staff working them loved us and gave us a whole bunch of free Tiger Beer t-shirts and flags (simply because we were foreigners I assume). Towards the end of the night we reverted to hanging out by the beer stand because Tiger beer put out these massive cushions in the sand and it felt amazing to just chill, lay down,  drink beer, and listen to the music with a view of the stage. We were quite the attraction while sitting there and so many Chinese people stopped to take our picture "Oh wow look at the foreigners laying on the pillows, let's take a picture!" The Tiger beer rep even got a few photos of us which I'm sure will be used in a beer advert somewhere here in China. As for the actual music, some artists were pretty horrible and others were pretty good! The only thing is that Chinese people have absolutely no sense of rhythm so their songs were pretty well off beat. Some artists attempted to sing some English songs but for the most part it was all in Chinese which was pretty cool to experience what their music scene is like.  We ran into a few other foreigners at the festival as well which was pretty cool since seeing other foreigners here seems to be quite rare unless you are at Pizza Pizza on the walking street. One of them was actually from Canada as well which was cool because other Canadians are sparse around China, or at least from my own experience. It was so refreshing to talk to him and hear a Canadian accent...I listen to Brits and other Europeans or Chinese speak all the time so it made me feel like I was at home! All in all the Orange Isle fest was a good time..was great to spend the day hanging out on the island with a great view of the city and enjoy some great Chinese musical talent!

One of many Chinese people who stopped to get a picture of us at the festival

你好 (HELLO) CHANGSHA!

A week ago, I packed all my belongings into my backpack and hit the Beijing train station. Many times in China, I caught myself thinking 'where are all the people? China is supposed to be packed full of humans' well I found them, they are at the Beijing West train station. Being hungover, sad to leave, and carrying a bursting at the seams full backpack through a huge crowd of Chinese people staring at you was quite the event let me tell you. I had never been on a train before, since back in Canada passenger trains are not very common so I was very excited to see what it was all about. Well, being a third class passenger in China was a great way to start. It might not of been very glamorous or extremely comfortable but it was an experience and I'm actually glad I had to do it because I'm sure I would have never chosen to travel that way. The beds were stacked three high and I had the top bunk so it was impossible to sit up on my bed so I spent most of my waking hours sitting in the isle hanging out. To my satisfaction, there was a young boy, maybe about 3 or 4 who was next to us on the train. He was so much fun! Even though I could only say a few words and phrases in Chinese, I was able to entertain this little boy and have fun with him! I would make crazy faces at him and he would giggle and try to copy them! It also worked out in our favour as his mother was constantly offering us fruit, meat, and chinese candies while we were playing with her son. 15 long hours later we arrived in Changsha and were greeted by some extremely friendly members of our department from our school and headed back to our school. We were taken to our apartment, and let me tell you when you expect the worst in China, sometimes you are pleasantly surprised. Our accommodation here in Changsha is absolutely gorgeous!! We all have large rooms with King sized beds and are spoiled enough to have a flat screen tv in our living rooms. The boarding school that we use as our home base is gorgeous and quite large considering it's a primary school. All the other teachers are very friendly and the students are so cute but some of them are a little crazy at times. I am teaching mainly grade 5 so the kids' English is not too bad and they are lots of fun! The younger students are adorable but a little crazy and harder to teach because they don't speak much English...cute nonetheless though!

As for Changsha as a city, what a breath of fresh air...literally! The air pollution levels here are minuscule in comparison to Beijing. The Xiangjiang river flows through the city and there is a range of mountains on the west side of the city, the most famous being Mount Yuelu which makes the city have quite the nature feel to it. The population of Changsha is currently at around 6 million so it's the perfect size for China as it has everything an expat needs without it being too overwhelmingly large and crowded. The people here drive like maniacs and are extremely friendly. Since most of the people here don't see many foreigners, the 6 of us interns are local celebrities and are constantly being stopped and stared at, something that one must get used to. One of the most famous areas of Changsha is a walking street downtown which is home to many stores and restaurants and there is a small bar street that branches off of the walking street with many small KTV bars and pub style places to go and enjoy a cold one. There is an outdoor market very close to Tian Hua (the school we live at). The sights and smells sometimes leave much to be desired but it is much what you would expect to see in China. There are many small shops selling various items, from clothing to shoes to fruits and vegetables to carts with large pieces of meat. Here you can also find many outdoor BBQ's where many Chinese go to enjoy some spicy meat skewers of all kinds and drink tea and beer. One of the things that makes this market smell a bit odd and look quite dirty is the fact that garbage collection means just throwing waste on the ground which gets cleaned up in the wee hours of the morning. This makes for a rats haven and a less than lovely scent for humans and I have twice already seen a rat scurrying around (a bit alarming but is to be expected).

Life in Changsha has thus far been good. It is very refreshing to be out of Beijing and see what else China has to offer!

SAYING GOODBYE TO BEIJING

I apologize for my lack of blog posts lately. Between teaching practice, having a social life, and moving to Changsha I have kind of put it on the back burner. Because I'm horrible at keeping up I'm going to rewind back a week in time when I left Beijing. What a sad sad day! Over the course of the past month I have gone from being complete strangers with everyone at TTC to being extremely close with a lot of people. I feel so blessed that I had the chance to come here on my own and leave with so many great amazing friends that I'm certain I will see again (cough cough Inner Mongolia trip)! Saying goodbye to Beijing was really hard for more than one reason. Firstly, I was just starting to feel comfortable and at home in Beijing. I had finally adapted to the climate, the food, I knew the subway system to a certain degree, I knew where to go to get a great meal or a cheap bottle of beer and most importantly felt comfortable crossing the street..I was comfortable. Leaving was like reseting the system again which at the time was a hard concept to grasp but now that I am sitting here at my desk in Changsha I am glad I did it. Secondly, the people..what a riot! Beijing is an amazing city and I have so many fantastic memories there, from the beer garden, the many silk market trips, the sky bar, the fat Toms from teaching practice, the crazy nights at the beer garden down the road, the 50 yuan all you can eat buffet, jamming out with Miguel in the lobby, laying in the grass at the summer temple, dying laughing 20 times a day from George and Rasmus, having a nap in the beds in Ikea, having morning cuddle sessions with  miss Clem, and going to the shop down the road from some delicious dumplings. And not to mention all the great times sitting out on the front step of the hotel until the wee hours of the night! It didn't really feel like reality saying goodbye to so many amazing people that I have grown so close to. Beijing was one big party and now I'm feeling the effects of the Beijing hangover, the worst kind if you ask me! I was forced to literally squeeze all of my belongings into my backpack and leave Beijing with 5 other great interns for Changsha
再见 Beijing!