Morning

　　Up at 6, but not needing to meet the group until 830, I bundled up against the elements and went for a walk around the block。

　　百般折腾之后，凌晨6点我终于起床了，但是我们的团队要等到早上8点30分才集合。我把自己裹得像个粽子，以抵抗外面的恶劣天气，然后去周围街区散步。

　　I love mornings like this in a new city, getting to see the place wake up, as the working class hits up the food carts for their bag lunches to go, and parents walk their kids to school。

　　我爱这样的早晨，在一个全新的地方，看着整个城市慢慢醒来，上班族到热气腾腾的早餐车处买早餐，然后把食物打包带走，父母送他们的孩子去学校。

　　I feel invisible, but that’s a good thing, as I don’t get the standard cheezy tourist treatment and can just enjoy the everyday life of this great place。

　　在这里我就像一个隐形人，没有人认识我，也没有人关注我，但这是一件好事情，因为这样的话，我就不用被那些俗气的游客待遇束缚，可以尽情享受这个伟大城市的日常生活。

　　Beijing was dawning beautiful and sunny, and the hustle and bustle was there, but still not the craziness or the crowds I had prepped for. Instead it was just comfortable, and being comfortable in a place is a huge, huge factor for me. When I, as a single woman, can walk around a city and just relax and enjoy it, that is the best sign that a city is going to be fantastic。

　　北京朝霞美丽，阳光明媚，车水马龙，熙熙攘攘，但仍然远未如我想像的那般疯狂和拥挤。相反，它给人一种舒适的感觉，在一个地方如果身心都能感觉舒适自在，这对我而言，是非常、非常重要的因素。我，作为一名单身女人，能够漫步于一座全新的城市，真正放松自己，就这样享受它，那就是最好的迹象，表明这座城市将是非常美妙的。

Our Guide

　　After a giant breakfast at the typical Asian “everything you could possibly imagine – fish and pizza and congee and Cocoa Pops” hotel buffet (they always have Cocoa Pops. Every country I’ve ever been in. Go figure. For this sole reason they have become my strange vacation obsession)， we loaded our gloved and scarfed selves into the minibus and headed for Tianamen Square。

　　我们吃了一顿丰盛的早餐，典型亚洲特色(所有东西你都可以想象得出——鱼肉、披萨、白粥、可可麦片粥)的酒店自助(他们总是提供可可麦片粥，每一个我去过的国家都这样。你可以自己琢磨下，看是不是这么回事。因为这个原因，他们已经成为我奇怪的旅游强迫症)，我们戴上手套，把自己塞进迷你巴士，然后朝天安门广场进发。

　　Our adorable guide Jimmy – if keeping him in our luggage had been an option, we would have kept him throughout the whole tour – paraded us around carrying a bright red fabric fish on a telescoping pole, which, despite the fact it looked ridiculous, was amazingly easy to see in a forest of tour groups whose leaders were all carrying identical flags。

　　我们可爱的导游吉米——如果在吉米和行李之间二选一，我们肯定会毫不犹豫地选择吉米，整个旅行中，宁要吉米不要行李——在我们面前挥舞着一面有伸缩杆的醒目的红色鱼尾旗，这看上去确实滑稽可笑，不过令人惊奇的是，你很容易发现自己置身于旅游团旗帜的森林，所有导游几乎都拿着一面差不多的旗子。

The Tiananmen Square

　　There were thousands of people here, and everyone was with a tour group, all moving in little flocks through the vast expanse of the square. If you turned your back on your group to take a picture, you had to be careful that when you turned back you were still with the right people, as it was so easy to get swept up with another group and before you knew it you were on the bus with a bunch of Israeli tourists。

　　这里有成千上万的人，每个人都跟着一个旅游团，大家在巨大的广场上分成一小撮一小撮，慢慢地挪动着。如果你转过身拍照，背对你的旅游团，那你再回过身的时候就一定要小心确认是不是还和自己人在一起，因为稍不注意就会跟错团，否则等你回到旅游巴士上，看到一车陌生的以色列游客，你才会惊觉自己走散了。

　　The square itself is pretty plain, a big white expanse of concrete with some cool statues on one side, the Mao’s portrait-clad entrance to the Forbidden City on another, and the giant queue to see the refridgerated body of Mao on the other. The lines were too long, we missed him on this trip, but I’ll get it next time…

　　天安门广场本身漂亮平整，白茫茫一大片，用混凝土浇筑，一侧有许多很酷的雕像，另一侧是挂着毛主席肖像画的紫禁城入口，还有一侧是毛主席纪念堂，人们排着长长的队伍等待瞻仰毛主席遗容。这条队伍实在太长长长了，我们这次旅行只能错过他了，但是我下次一定不会错过的……

　　We found out after the fact that there are a lot of plain clothed securirt patroling the square and the Forbidden City, but you’d never know it, it feels so open and friendly. Got some great pictures, the cloudless blue sky made everything look spectacular, but once again it was really cold and windy, so we spent a lot of time huddling together and trying not to die。

　　我们发现，在天安门广场和紫禁城其实有许多便衣警察在秘密巡逻，只是你可能永远不会知道，这让人感觉非常开放和友好。我们拍摄了一些很棒的照片，澄澈如洗的蓝天使一切看起来都很宏伟壮观，但我不得不再提一次，这里真的好冷啊，寒风刺骨，我们大部分时间都挤在一起取暖，以免自己被冻死。

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