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Hi all,

Sorry for the long hiatus but the last two weeks have been super busy for me. I have lots to update you guys on, I’ll work backward – starting with the first Beijing snowfall! As crazy as it sounds, Beijing snowed on Sunday! A big snowfall, but gorgeous! It’s still too early for Beijing to start snowing, according to my tutor and other professors at school. It’s the first time in 22 years that it snowed this early and this much. Below are some pictures.

I also went bungee jumping on Saturday – my way of celebrating Halloween. I went with Taylor, Martin, their friends Yan and Slyvia to 十渡, which took four hours to get there! We actually got off the wrong bus stop, the tour guide book Yan found the bungee jumping event in said to get off at 十渡 but we actually should’ve gotten off at 九渡. So when we got to 十渡, all we saw was a huge lake and a great mountain. We decided to hike through the mountain in order to go bungee jumping. And so we hiked for two hours, endured a whole lot of thorn bushes, and beautiful scenic views before we arrived at 九渡. We actually arrived at the perfect timing because the company was closing in two days for winter. It cost 180RMB to jump and 65RMB for the video they take of you jumping. The quaity of the cmera was not too great so we bargained down the price to 150RMB between four people. I don’t have any pictures of jumping but Sylvia does and hopefully I will get those pictures from her soon. But below are pictures from hiking/exploring.