Part II

So remember there was a group of Japanese students from the same university (in Tokyo) who all lived on my floor in my residence? They left last Saturday morning (early morning: 6:00 AM to be precise). I was sad to see them go. They were my first friends upon arriving in Beijing and it would've been fun to get to know them better and continue hanging out throughout the year. Oh well. There will be others. So Yosuke and Kenji came over to our room around 11 PM to say good-bye (others had come earlier) and they just stayed a while...and...we talked...and we talked...and suddenly it was 1 AM! And then everyone was hungry. So we decided to go for chuan (meat on a stick), but the small gates were closed so we had to go to the main west gate to get out of the university, and that was a big detour, so it took a while.

Here's us still on campus, maybe around 1:30 AM. Yosuke in green, Kenji in blue, and Min Ji (my Korean roommate - she's staying for the year) in pink.
Kenji in the middle of a deserted Beijing street (right outside West Gate of our university) - remember it's nearing 2 AM.
At the restaurant we took pictures of our tired faces...that's my lovely Korean roommate and me.

Yosuke and Kenji...can't wait to eat!!!
Yay!!! Nothing beats meat-on-a-stick at 2 AM!!! Can't get a better last-experience-in-China moment!
Back on campus we walked around one last time (for them), checking out the main building (which has the library) and not really doing anything very productive.
There's a famous bell-shaped looking thing on campus.
It's lit up with green lights, so we played with the lights a bit. From L-R: Kenji, MinJi, and Yosuke.


Kenji and I discovered we could purse our lips to look like fish...yeah...it was a pretty wacky night. We went back to my room and played cards (after racing Yosuke in a couple of sprints) - a Japanese game involving slapping other people's hands and Crazy 8s.