Chinarchy

Snow In Beijing

by Anderson | 03/14/10 | 1 comment

In case you couldn’t guess from the title, it snowed today in Beijing. There were some of the biggest, floppiest snow flakes I’ve ever seen.

I’m pretty sure it only snows the Chinese government makes it. They blow a huge horn and the ghost of Mao appears and if they sacrificed enough virgin rice paddy peasant girls to please the ethereal chairman he grants them 3 weather related wishes.

Just kidding, that would be stupid. Really they just pass a law demanding that the weather obey them. It works!

Anyway, here are some of the pictures I took. As usual, click them to get a bigger version.

Here is some random Beijing lady who was shoveling snow. She didn’t really seem like she knew what she was doing.

Here is a snowy road leading away from our apartment. I don’t have any jokes to make about this one or the next couple. So I’ll just post them without comments and you guys pretend I said something really funny.

I don’t know if this is a good picture or not, but I was trying to show how the fat snow flakes were just sort of hanging in the air around the apartment and falling really slowly.

The courtyard outside our building looked really cool with the snow all swirling around.

Guards like this are all over the city. We can’t tell if they are like real government guards or the housing communities hire them. Normally they are much more menacing. But not this guy. He is just enjoying the snow.

These girls didn’t really seem to be enjoying the snow so much. But the next girl that walked by was loving it. Look below.

Look at how happy she is! I never actually saw her face but I’m definitely in love with her. She’s such a free spirit. Maybe we could star in a romantic comedy together. I’ll be all stuffy and upright and well-mannered and she’ll be the free spirited hippie girl who teaches me to enjoy the simple things. That hasn’t been done before, right? I bet her name is Dharma. (For the record, I prefer Simon and Kaylee as my stereotypical-uptight-guy-with-free-spirit-girl couple.)

Alright so that’s what snow looks like in Beijing. Any questions or should I keep making jokes about Mao’s ghost? Fine, I was leaving anyway.