Beijing Zoo
Jul. 5th, 2011 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headFirst of all, new photos! BUT I warn you: most of them are of the animals at the Beijing Zoo, and I don't presume to criticize how they keep their animals from having only visited there one day but many were pacing and some didn't look very healthy, so if that might upset you, you probably don't want to look, or maybe want to skip to page 5 which is all non-zoo stuff.
The zoo was interesting; although the panda exhibit, which was spruced up for the Olympics a few years ago, had a lot of English on the signs - pretty much all the signs were translated entirely into English - the rest of the signs had sporadic and inconsistent English. Some signs had the common name and Latin name translated; some had only one. Certain signs only translated the title of the sign, which was 'Information'. That was...helpful.
The only sign with English on it outside the 'Hawk Hill' (actually full of vultures) exhibit said only 'Cinerous vulture' in English. Despite the fact that it was clearly talking about at least three of the birds in there. And I was already sure I had identified the cinerous in there, so it wasn't very helpful :P
What else. Um...getting more used to the food. I really enjoyed our lunch, which was a bowl of instant noodles we bought at a stand, where they poured in boiling water for you, and you added packets of flavoring. And a packet of like...tiny slices of lettuce and little shriveled bits of meat. I left that one out. The bowl came with a fork instead of chopsticks though, and it was odd using a fork; I've been getting used to the chopsticks.
Oh, and I used hair gel today - it held up really well, despite me being absolutely covered in sweat. Not so sure about how I actually chose to wear it. I think I need to be a bit more bold next time and do a real fauxhawk.
Entirely exhausted, but took a nap already, so staying up a bit before going to bed. Going to go make Snape in Sims 3.
The zoo was interesting; although the panda exhibit, which was spruced up for the Olympics a few years ago, had a lot of English on the signs - pretty much all the signs were translated entirely into English - the rest of the signs had sporadic and inconsistent English. Some signs had the common name and Latin name translated; some had only one. Certain signs only translated the title of the sign, which was 'Information'. That was...helpful.
The only sign with English on it outside the 'Hawk Hill' (actually full of vultures) exhibit said only 'Cinerous vulture' in English. Despite the fact that it was clearly talking about at least three of the birds in there. And I was already sure I had identified the cinerous in there, so it wasn't very helpful :P
What else. Um...getting more used to the food. I really enjoyed our lunch, which was a bowl of instant noodles we bought at a stand, where they poured in boiling water for you, and you added packets of flavoring. And a packet of like...tiny slices of lettuce and little shriveled bits of meat. I left that one out. The bowl came with a fork instead of chopsticks though, and it was odd using a fork; I've been getting used to the chopsticks.
Oh, and I used hair gel today - it held up really well, despite me being absolutely covered in sweat. Not so sure about how I actually chose to wear it. I think I need to be a bit more bold next time and do a real fauxhawk.
Entirely exhausted, but took a nap already, so staying up a bit before going to bed. Going to go make Snape in Sims 3.
