Some Pictures and other stuff

So yesterday I met up for dinner with someone who is also going to Georgetown next year. We became acquainted through the  Georgetown 2012 facebook group, and realized that we might cross paths in China! He lives in Nanjing, but happens to be in Beijing during this week while he's getting his visa for the fall. We went to a restaurant called 便宜坊（pianyi fang), and I had my first real Peking duck!

(Near downtown Beijing in the Chaoyang district, close to the restaurant)

Work is a little bit slow at the moment, because it is an entertainment-based company, and since the Sichuan earthquake most entertainment has slowed or been completely cut off. At the end of the day my supervisors invited me to go to a Chinese rock concert tomorrow night that will raise funds for the earthquake relief. 

Anyway, I'll have more pictures after the concert tomorrow, and a lot more after this weekend, as I will be doing some major sightseeing. For now, I figured I would at least post a few pictures of where I am staying:

The apartment complex from the outside

The living room / TV room

The Kitchen

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My room (which needs some tidying)

So the family has a Wii and many games to go with it. For some reason, however, Lewis only plays this one mini-game in "Wii Play", over and over (the tank game, for anyone who has it). Now, I thought at first, 'hey I own this game too and have played it a fair bit, I should probably go easy on him'. Little did I know that it was pretty much the only game he has played in the last two months. So even when I started trying my absolute hardest, he beat me with a score of 70-odd to 10...

WATCH OUT! Things are getting intense!

(seriously, this kid has ridiculous amounts of energy, its awesome)