5th day

typical im leaving beijing today, and actually found some english people. they were nice, i meet them while i was doing some washing. so while i was waiting for that we chilled. sat outside to hostel. they were lovely people, infact i have only meet one person who wasn't nice. he was over on a conferance. basicly told me to shut up as he was watching the film. which i thought was a bit nasty was only asking him basic questions. but hey not everyone is a saint like me !!!!

so did some washing. was ok. hoever the "dryer" doesn't actually dry them. so again lesson learnt don't do your washing when you have to get a train later that day.

Got the the train station wow it was big. nice place and really easy to get around. look on the big board, find your train number and go to a waiting room. they call your train and you go down to the platform.

trains are so nice. but i suppose i was in first class. again it was full of american kids, there seems to be so many of them over here. this group where actually a band camp on tour.
the soft sleeper i had was comfortable, there is four to a room, which is small but yeah i was only sleeping in it. I was sharing the room with a chinese person and 2 american teachers. they seems ok. gilbert pryer was one of them. he plays the trumpet and has played with people like barry white, so he must be pretty good.
One problem with the americans was they were still on american time. so they went to bed really earlier, while i was in the bar. i finally went to bed about 2am. they woke up at 4am, and talked. ouch again not much sleep. not sure i would of got that much anyway. i am not use to sleeping on a train, which is a little rough.