Thursday, December 6, 2012
Day Three of no classes! Met up with Melissa and Chelsea later in the day to go to the silk market in search of things to buy. There was some form of miscommunication and we somehow ended up looking for the silk market in xidan. The silk market is not in Xidan, so after aimlessly wandering around for a while, Chelsea headed back to campus while Melissa and I went to the Zoo market to look around. Still had no luck. Went back to Beida with Melissa to meet her language partner and the 3 of us went to Wangfujing to eat and check out the night market. It took a while, but we finally found a place to eat that had fantastic food for a good price and then headed over to the night market. The night market was so cool! It was just streets and streets of things to buy. I did a lot of souvenir shopping here. I'm starting to love haggling so much. We still get ripped off at the markets, but I think we put up a fair fight and definitely get ripped off less than your typical foreigner would. This is definitely an amazing place to buy souvenirs for people. Towards the end of the night, as people were closing up, we actually managed to find a qipao store, so we haggled a bit and managed to get our qipaos for 100 kuai but they wouldnt let us try them on. Afterwards we quickly checked out the bookstore and then headed back to campus. We tried on the qipaos but neither of them fit, we needed the next size up, so we made plans to return tomorrow and exchange them. After a while headed to sleep, exhausted after another long day in Beijing!
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