Adrian’s Brain Injury Blog

Week With Dad

January 7th, 2007

All this week has been a good opportunity to take turns chilling out. We still have our usual daily routine but with a little more extra time. Mum and Tut have gone to the markets a couple of times to have a shop and a break, by nightfall they kick me out and send me back to the hotel. So alone i trot by myself back to the room. Sitting, Chilling, Thinking, basically fancy words for doing nothing, I decided to walk the city streets and check out the scenery. Put it this way, my walk ended in a hangover some 7hrs later and the scenery from what i can remember was the inside of many-a-pub. I’d met a guy travelling from the U.K (Toby) and it was his wise plan to tackle every pub head on and give them more income in a night than they see in a year.

The next morning, eye’s glazed and hair a mess, I hurled for the nearest taxi back to the hospital. I had some missing funds to explain to my parents. The usual taxi trip back to the hospital was extremely different. Beijing had been snowed on. How a coat of white powder could change familiar objects and buildings so easily. The streets, buildings and parks i’d passed before were once again unfamiliar. A layer of beauty, it seemed fell on the city. Beijing had applied its make-up.

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