Tango at SFO
On the 'old' part of campus at 北大
View from my window
The 'compound' at the Ministry of Post and Telecom's conference center hotel
'My' gate to campus. 北大西门。
Typical older building on campus
More of old campus
The new end of campus. The new campus is on the south and east of of things. 'Old' is north and west. Southeast is 1950s communist chic
The library.
detail of library
More new campus
Did I mention the air quality?
Yesterday the ick kind of burned off by afternoon. Just in time for oppressive heat.
You don't see the tall buildings until your just a few hundred yards from them.
I hope this isn't a typical sunny day.
The north edge of campus has ponds and formal landscaping and butts up against the ruins of the old summer palace
Notice the lack of power tools
Rebar anyone?
Hutong market. The guy on the right is cleaning eels.
Beijing training pants
Uh, hello. Bird flu?
I think this is supposed to be Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The bookstore was crammed with readers, including people reading to their kids...
and people taking notes on test prep books.
My day was ended by a thunderstorm. Another similarity to Chicago
Fortunately, I was close to a nice restaurant. They even had an English menu (I know, that's cheating. Give me a break, it's the first day).
