I'm a Foreigner!
As we go through the Chinese customs we queue up in the lanes marked 'Foreigners' we are now officially Lao Wei!!! But even though we are foreigners we are not alone. As we come through the baggage claim we see a very familiar face. Michael Wang used to work at CILC and attend FBC is waiting for us. The heat and humidity wraps itself around us like a winter sweater as we step out into the streets of Beijing. Michael talks to a taxi driver and then tells three people to hop in. He then has a similar conversation with a second and tells us to jump in. My mind is swamped – everything is new, everything is different and yet familiar because the billboards boast suburban living in places with names like Central Park, Palm Springs and Eagle Vista; McDonald's still reminds me that "I'm lovin' it" and Pepsi is still "the choice of the new generation."