Beijing and the Great Wall

9/11

We woke up early yet again to head to Beijing. We caught our train at 7:00 and we rode first class!
When we arrived in Beijing we went to China central Academy of Fine Arts (one of the top revered Art universities in the world). It was awesome. A top notch campus full of everything a digital artist (amount all other artists) could every want. It really inspired me to apply for my masters even though they only accept less than 2% of their applicants (but they said that they really liked to accept more foreigners especially English speaking). We’ll see if anything every comes of that, but I was very inspired being at the campus.
After the lunch and tour of the campus it was off for sleeping on the great wall. The drove through some of the countryside for two hours until we arrived. It was surreal being there. We made it for sunset but there was too many clouds and smog to see the sun. We had an awesome home cooked meal from the people who host the overnights on the wall. Afterwards we hiked a little ways we arrived at the tower. We received a sleeping bag, pillow, and a bit of padding for the stone floor. There were odd bugs crawling around which was a little creepy but it was still amazing. We slept outside underneath the stars (but we could only see a few through the smog).