friends in the north

I was very fortunate to meet up with my other home college friends today! The friend that I was staying over with and I met up with my other home college friend who is studying at Tsinghua University and we went to 798, which is Beijing's art district. We spend the morning catching up while viewing multiple art galleries. The three of us had brick oven pizza for lunch---super delicious! My Tsinghua friend had to run some errands, so my Beida friend and I met up with my former Chinese class classmate at Beijing's Olympic park, where we had the awesome opportunity to go inside the Olympic Stadium/Bird's Nest/the place in the photo above. Mind you that this stadium was made for the summer Olympics, so the strong Beijing wind was constantly filtering through the 'branches' thus causing my friends and I to freeze! We were luck to arrive at the Olympic park when the sun was setting, so we got to see the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube light up! That night, my Beida friend and met up with my Tsinghua friend again in Wudaokou, an area near both of those universities. We went to a Korean restaurant for dinner and talk for hours---we arrived back at Beijing University at 11 pm!  It was such a fun day!