Hello from Bejing. It is huge HUGE and largely unintelligible. Imade two friends who speak little or no English. One sat next to me, a high school English teacher who was visiting his daughter in medical school in Wisconsin. He was very fluent and very proud of his English abilities. I didn't have the heart to tell him I couldn't figure out most of what he was saying, so I nodded and smiled a lot. He probably thought I was senile.

He did tell me where to go(no, not like that) while here in Bejing. Tomorrow I will head to Tienamin Square. (It might be in bad taste to do my man in front of the tank imitation, ya think?)

There were some of the terra cotta soldiers and horses in the airport. I was thinking about taking my picture on the horse, decided against it

My other friend is the cab driver who didn't even pretend to speak English. I told him some stuff out of my handy dandy Instant Chinese guide book, but he made me quit talking because whatever I was saying made him run off the road.Tomorrow I'll try to get the blog going, but this works for now. Thank God for the internet(never thought I would ever say that!) Agirl could get a little lonesome out here by herself.

My piano has made it great so far. They lost it for a while in the Bejing airport but there was a very irate Mexican base guitar player who lost her guitar and fur was flying. I just nodded and smiled and followed her at a safe distance. When they found her guitar, low and behold, my piano! She stormed off in a huff and Ithink they said something about "help the senile round-eye with her piano". Could not get on facebook. The instructions were in Chinese and Ive been flying since yesterday at 9:00 am. It's now after midnight. G'nite for now.