Beijing, China

Saturday, June 20, continued
After we deplaned, we had about three hours before our joint concert with Whim n' Rhythm, Yale's all-senior female a cappella group, for the local Yale Club. We had a brilliant time singing and partying with them that night.

Sunday, June 21
We visited the Great Wall. Rather than walking up and down, we took a tram up (weirdly, our tram said that President Bill Clinton had ridden that same tram car up to the Wall back in the 1990s) and tobogganed down.

Monday, June 22
We rode around ancient Chinese streets in tuk-tuks during the afternoon. Then, Jay Frisby, Julian and I checked out Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. We also bought some authentic goods at a huge market in downtown Beijing. That night, we sang at Yale grad Dionysios Bouzos's house party for about forty of his friends. He has a magnificent apartment there; also, we're apparently going to do a similar at his apartment in Greece. After the show, a few of us hung out with some members of Whim at a bar near a lake in Beijing.

Tuesday, June 23
The Whiffs sang concerts for two different private schools during the afternoon. Come evening time, we said goodbye to the Chen family, our hosts who put all fourteen Whiffs up in their house, and boarded a sleeper train to Shanghai.