Wudaokou by night

went to check out the nightlife in Wudaokou. his friend invited him.

so we went out with a Chinese-British guy and a Chinese guy. to the bar Lush - which is the student hang out. We ran into another Swedish girl that John knows. I guess it was about 35% Chinese. but not sure if they were OBC overseas born chinese.

a few Koreans, few African pple and lotsa white students. some said there were lotsa Americans. I seem to hear alot of people speaking European languages. anyhoo. i thought it was quite cosy. i thought it might be super trashy but ok.
then we went to Touch 9 which is a big Korean hang out. In my experience and I don't really want to generalise but most of the Koreans I meet are super trendy, trendy hair clothes etc.

Anyway this Chinese-British guy who came from London, has a Birmingham accent and I think his parents were from Hong Kong. He has HK citizenship but he had to enrol with the other foreign students. so he went to the registration and said "why do HK and Taiwan have to register with the foreign students - we are not foreign, HK is not another country!!" He started raving on blah blah - John and I just said - ummmm I dont want to discuss anything political okay. lets bitch about Britain.

Anyway I had a disgusting glass of red wine. but dinner i had a chicken salad and sushi from a place called Czen. tre good.

Most places (the university campus or groups of apartment buildings) are gated communities.
As we headed back John said "I hope they haven't shut the gate" I was like "what are we supposed to do if they have?"
He said climb over or squeeze through the gate. I could not believe it. We decided to try a back gate and lucky that was open.

The lifts stop at 11pm at his building (China has lots of electricity saving stuff like this in many buildings)

John lives on the 17th floor.

So we had to walk up 17 flights of stairs. not as bad as it sounds. was dreading it but it was good.

His flatmate does it every night because he comes home after 11pm.

THe back door of the building is locked so we had to wake up the night guard to let us in.