A Normal Day in Pictures

I was bored today, so while messing around with my camera I decided to do a day (a very normal and boring day) in pictures.

This is where I wake up, and it is always this messy.
This is what it looked like outside my front door today, I guess they were fixing something that looked like ethernet wiring.
Here's a view down my hall, which looks the same the other way down. I'm very happy my room is very close to the elevator.
For lunch today we went to a Japanese Restaurant, which is A LOT more money than we usually spend on lunch. It is usually around 10 kuai for lunch, but today it was around 20, even with the 50% off student sushi discount.
This is where we met up with our friends to eat. The restaurant was pretty nice and clean, something that we're not used to going to for lunch. We usually eat really cheap, but today I guess we decided to go a little overboard.


The salad. For 4.
The restaurant's daily special, though today's (Tuesday) looked like a butt hair roll.
My roll was called the Sony Ericsson Roll.
Tiny desert which came with two tiny slices of orange, a nasty grape (because grapes in China are nasty), and a 1/4 slice of a cherry tomato.
XinJieKouWaiDaJie (the street we live on), which is packed full of stores that carry sports equipment and school supplies to beer, booze, and fake clothing brands. A normal day walking to class consists of walking by these stores.
Stop by a local store which contains all the necessities of Chinese life: a million brands of cigarettes.
Ramen. Instant Noodles of all flavors.
AND Booze! and drinks I guess, which a surprisingly large amount of my money goes to.
The opening of our school at East Gate (Dong Menr).
Our friends' apartment lobby, LiYun Apartotel. The decoration on the pole was left from the Olympics.
The NEW Library in construction. I have a view of this building from my room.
An area near classes that is blocked off because of the construction.
XinSong Apartment, where the PiB students stayed during the summer (also a very crappy apartment).
The walkway and grass that separates Building 2 and Building 4 of classes.
The front area, in front of the Old Library where the students park their bikes. There are usually 1 Million each day, but today there were less.
Confucius.
He is in the middle of a very peaceful lawn, where it is forbidden for anyone to walk on. It looks so clean.
The bike parking lot, though this time I can't seem to see the attendant anywhere.
The Old Library, which is mostly administration now. It is the symbol of our school Beijing Shi Fan Da Xue right now. I pass by the building everyday and the size never ceases to amaze me.
Some men on lunch break playing a hackisack game, look at the little birdie in the middle of them. Everyone plays this game, and at all times of the day. The eye clinic I pass by everyday to get to school.
The gate to the eye clinic and also to the school, it's called Xiao Dong Menr (for small East Gate).
This is my building from the outside, my room is near that gigantic circle glass thingy.
The street that I walk over everyday, XinJieKouWaiDaJie, surprisingly empty today. It's usually backed up and with double parked cars. The only reason it isn't so busy is because people can't run across the street because there is a divider that would stop them from crossing the middle.
A normal site: seeing a salesperson on the bridge, though there are usually 5, selling anything from toys to books, dvds, and a service of putting on clear skins for your phones or iPods (fake brand of course, from Peach not Apple).
The bike AND car parking lot in front of my apartment, though people sometimes get confused and do the opposite. People really like parking their cars on the sidewalks here, especially since they are so much smaller than the average car in the states. The entrance to my apartment's lobby, which is always full of middle-aged workers.
The waiting room for the elevator, one for students and one for working people. The students live on the 8th to 11th floor, the workers live and work on all below 8, some even live in the spare rooms scattered throughout 8-11. There is always an attendant here sleeping and/or smoking, which he is not supposed to do. The desk they work at is to the left of the students (also to the left is a sign that says "No Smoking" in two languages).A fish in the fish tank sitting on the attendant at work's desk. The recently changed the fish because I guess they all died.

That's my day, well I guess half a day.