On Saturday we skipped a trip we had been planning to go on to the Great Wall and instead we went shopping again, and for lunch we had the Peking Duck! It was an award winning restaurant and they had all these famous people that has signed things for the restaurant. Everywhere you go shopping there are these five Olympic mascot bears that I think are very cool. I got a set of 5 little ones. Dr. Coppola bought a huge bag of the bear stuff. We also managed to locate the hidden Lacoste shirts that we had been looking for, and I think Brian bought 4 watches almost without even trying to! We were being swarmed by people selling watches as we were going home! Then we went to the Beijing American Club for a reception for the UM alumni in the Beijing area. There was a starbucks in the same building. There were a ton of people at the alumni reception! I was surprised. We met a lot of new people, and we also met some other exchange students from UM who were working at Beida this summer. Hmm yeah then after that we just went home.
Then on Sunday it was our last day before we started working, so we went to the summer palace. We took a little boat around a lake and stuff and we walked around a lot and saw the palace. We also went shopping for a little while again, but I think everyone had done enough shopping recently so we ended up heading home pretty early to rest for our first day in the lab.
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