The handmade signs in the shapes of apples and hearts bobbed above the heads of the beaming grade school children lining the driveway of Qi Yi primary school, in Beijing's Haidian District.
After five years of cordial nodding and smiling, the downstairs couple in our apartment block invited us to their brightly lit sitting room one recent evening. Before that, we had only talked about two topics: the possible leaking problem in our bathroom, and the part-time cleaners we both hire.
Making friends on campus seems to be mission impossible for many university students in Beijing. "College life is so different from what I expected in terms of making an intimate friend," says Zhang Yan, a sophomore at China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU).
Believe it or not, most of my married Chinese friends admit that the happiest moments on their wedding days are neither putting on a magnificent wedding gown, nor giving a passionate kiss to the bridegroom in front of hundreds of guests. It is about counting cash gifts on their wedding bed!
China has an estimated 13 million people with intellectual disabilities. Though a latecomer to the Special Olympics, the movement has caught on quickly in China with around 650,000 Special Olympics athletes at present.
In June 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver started a summer day-camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities at her home in Maryland, the United States, to explore their capabilities in a variety of sports and physical activities.
The scene at a Beijing sports stadium is in keeping with the slogan of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Shanghai - I know I can. Here, 30-year-old Ma Yunli trains under an early autumn sunshine, with 63 other athletes, for the upcoming event that will be held from October 2 to 11.
Apparently, some people in Beijing have yet to get the memo about queuing. Or maybe they simply misread it, taking it to mean that lining up for a subway ticket or a McDonalds hamburger is only proper etiquette on the 11th of every month.
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