Study Tour: Beijing

DAY SEVEN

         We (Sammy, Garett, Michael, and I) met up with Uncle Larry today. *teen girl squad voice* It was AWESOME!!

         First we went to the Lama Temple. Fun fact: has the largest statue ever made out of a single tree. And that’s what was cool about that place.

         Then we went to the Forbidden City. Mao’s portrait though: priceless. There were soldiers everywhere and security was very tight. It’s a big place for protests so they were screening everyone who didn’t look Han for suspicious belongings or behavior. Sounds racist, but necessary. We walked around there for a couple hours and it was surprisingly empty. The place is massive, but all of the furniture is in Taiwan, so that’s a little anticlimactic, but still cool nonetheless.

         Then to finish the night we headed to Tiananmen Square. It’s all lit up at night and there was people everywhere and soldiers marching back and forth. We decided to film part of our music video and went crazy dancing in front of the Forbidden City. People loved it. After we finished we had another impromptu photo shoot which is always fun. During that, these two guys came up to us and we started chatting. One of them, the infamous ChenChen, asked each of us to take selfies with him. But with me it was a little different. I thought that he was just taking a selfie, but later that night he sent Garett a video of me. It was horrifying. It had this creepy music and was basically just of me smiling and laughing at the camera. 100% ChenChen will inevitably be my murderer.