we arrived in beijing at 12:20am. the airport is huge. you need to take a train to get from one place to another. we got lost trying to leave. then... / she saw us before we saw her. we were heading towards the elevator and she called her name. she wore sunglasses and a man in a red jumper followed. we rode through beijing in a red car. i wore red. the red smog we saw from the plane seemed to have cleared and we noticed blue appear in the sky. the trees at the side of the road reminded me of greece. we arrived at their home and i met her husband and friend. he wore a blue spotted jumper with a small green crocodile. their daughter was shy at first but slowly felt more comfortable with the strangers. we were the same. she called me xiao mao.
tomorrow we had a japanese lunch. sushi, noodles, fish eggs, my small friend hit her daddy with her chopsticks. her mummy had a bad cold and stayed in bed in the afternoon. we rode in comfort to 798. i like the name very much but the place didnt feel how i imagined it would. it wasn't so free. it wanted to sell. many shows were closed for the red lantern holiday but the light was so beautiful. that night the sky was full of fireworks, our ears sounded like pop pop pop, a fire blazed in central beijing and one man died fighting it.
tomorrow we had beijing duck and some of his favourite dishes. we rode to a forbidden city but it was closed for the ghosts to come out. we took pictures. we walked to tiananmen square and watched the flag fall down. we watched australia in english with subtitles. it was ok. we went home and played. i fell in love.
with beijing, with those days and with those people. we flew here and before in chengdu. the last time i saw the sky was the spring in two thousand and seven. i saw the mystery sunset that week. it lasts from those ten days. i hope the light falls on us again. we will chase it.
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