The Next Stop Is YongHeGong Lama Temple Station

Xia che de chang ke....shenme shenme de!

I hear this everyday on the subway, and now it will be my stop. The girl who does the English announcements on the subway's intercom is American. You can hear it every time she drawls the word 'transfer', and it upsets me, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of.
I booked a hostel for three days near YongHeGong, 69 kuai (in total)! It's definitely the low season, which makes hostel, train, and plane livin' much more affordable. The rest of China, here I come..soon.
My host's family invited me to their house to ring in the Chinese New Year, they felt bad that I am to spend Christmas without my family, so they invited me to theirs! (We say tomato/The Chinese say tomato). Amazing!
I ate duck at the most famous duck place in Beijing, woohoo. It was tasty for sure, tasty and pricey. There was a severed duck head to the immediate right of my chopstick hand the whole meal, all crusty and roasted. It was severed from the neck, and then along the corpus callosum, so you could see what it was thinking. I saw what he was thinking, he was judging me. But he didn't know that I was judging him too, because I have to pay 25 dollars to eat him, and he gets subway for free!
I opted not to eat the duck head.

I found out some interesting facts about Chinese doctors. First of which, they don't make an exceptional salary, also, it is a dangerous occupation. Doctors have been threatened, terrorized, and even killed by patients families should something unfortunate happen under their care. I'm not sure why the regard is a lot lower for doctors here, the schooling is roughly the same.