UPDATE FROM PHOFI 

Greetings to all of you from Beijing, China
It is now a full month since I arrived at Beijing airport and I can say that I have adjusted to the Chinese rhythm of life a little. My sign language is excellent, also my Greek and English but the rest is Chinese to me. Beijing is a HUGE city with many different centres beside the main one we all know of Tian'anmen square. All of them have their own distinct features: buildings, temples, parks, shopping centres that lure the stranger for a visit. Modern Beijing has moved architecturally away from the austere rectangular buildings of the 50s to a free, fascinating and daring style which has transformed the city to a cosmopolitan capital. Old Beijing with its palaces, temples, narrow alleys holds its everlasting charm.
 
I live in the campus of Beijing Foreign Studies University in the Haidian district near the Summer Palace. Life in the university and in the city is much the same as in Canada, so far I have not been lucky to visit a Chinese home and get a taste of the real Chinese life, but there are few months left until I return. Till then,

Namaste,

Phofi