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China8687-008 - The Beijing Train Station


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"...Our first week in Beijing wound down quickly and soon it was time to board the steam train to Linfen City in Shanxi Province where we would study Chinese for a year. I had no idea what to expect, Beijing already seemed very foreign and undeveloped in some ways to me, what would Shanxi be like?... The Beijing Train Station was a door to another dimension of travel. We crowded through the main front portal with thousands of others pushing to get on the train like bodychecking in a hockey game. I wondered what all the fuss was about; I figured we all had assigned seats, so what was the rush?..."

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