北京大学， 冬天。PKU in the Winter...

I actually took a walk around campus on my own on Thursday last week. I am so proud of myself for being able to get lost on my own without completely freaking out and bursting into cold sweat! It's the winter time, it was freezing cold on Thursday, and I decided to take a walk around campus and around Wei Ming Lake to 拍照　(take pictures). It was a very awkward walk of me and my camera. Everyone else around the lake were either families or couples. There were so many guys taking pictures of their girlfriends, and quite a few families trying that hand at creating their first snowman with the snow on the iced-over lake. And then, there's me. And my camera. Taking pictures of... Scenery. When I realized how sorta out of place I looked, I started pretending in my head that I was a professional photographer. Somehow, I guess in my head, I thought people would look at professional photographers in a different light, than that of a single girl walking around with no one to take pictures with, or no one to take pictures of her. Honestly though, it's not like what I think of in my head is going to show up in my physical appearance to others. Umm, sure, maybe I tried to make my photography actions look slightly more professional.. but who am I kidding... I wasn't even using a professional camera!
But anyway, here is how Beijing Da Xue 北京大学 or Peking University (PKU) looks like in the winter when there's snow on the ground. It is really very pretty.

This is 北京大学图书馆- PKU's library. It is the largest university library in the whole of Asia. Pretty impressive huh?

This WeiMing Lake all frozen over, coated with a layer of snow. And the Boya Tower in the background. Wei Ming means 'no name' because no one could find a name good enough to match the beauty of the lake. Boya Tower is a water tower built a long time ago to solve water problems on campus.

This is the lake itself and people on it. See that snowman to the right of the picture?

PKU has many gardens and such. These are the steps in one of the gardens.

These are classrooms. Don't you love how Chinese the buildings look? I do!

Chinese use bicycles as their main mode of transportation.Every Chinese person has at least one bicycle, if not more.

This is one of the many shops in PKU selling food and groceries. This one sells fruit... and see those rice cookers? One of them has baozi in it and the other has dumplings in it. And next to the ricecookers, there are plastic containers of soy bean milk. I just learned that sipping warm soy bean milk, on a cold winter's day while walking to class is the best thing ever!

The paths (actually, they're more like roads) around campus are usually filled with people, especially in between class hours. On both sides of the roads around campus, there are always many many trees lining them.

This is the building that I live it. ShaoYuan Guest House, Building 9. I just recently learned that Building 9 is the best Shao Yuan building of them all! We have pretty good and nice 服务员 (service people) who clean our rooms (not usually very well, but better than not cleaning at all), elevators, individual bathrooms for each room, a tv, airconditioning, and only 2 people share a room. In other buildings, up to 6 people would have to cram in an even smaller room than ours, 1 floor only has 1 common bathroom that everyone has to share, there is no airconditioning in the rooms and there are no elevators in most of the buildings.. so living on the 5th or 6th floor would certainly be crazy.

Oh, and this is the view from my window! If I'm not mistaken, that road right out there is called Suzhou Jie, but I might be wrong.