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July 08, 2004
Backlog from Beijing
Outside Gate 5, Beijing International Airport | 7/3/2004 2:15:12 PM Beijing Time
I've arrived in Beijing, to a completely different airport and a completely different country from the one I left as a six-year old scared little kid back in January, 1989. Not that I haven't been back in the meantime, but this is the first time I'm here after starting college. The key difference is that I'm far more analytic, fresh out of an academic environment. I remember the time in 1997 I arrived with my mom, there weren't enough airplane docking ports so we walked off the tarmac and took a shuttle to the terminal. Now, the entire terminal seems new and spacious - a complete redesign. What a difference 7 years and an Olympics committee makes:
Fresh off the plane, it's good to know Engrish is alive and well.
The view outside Gate 5 - a billboard. I'm sure Mao would be proud.
The spearhead of the Communist invasion of China, from the Kremlin on the Charles.
Posted by rxu at July 8, 2004 01:16 AM