John McCain At Beida

This incident actually occurred about two weeks ago, but I completely forgot to mention it in my blog!

So, on Thursdays, I don’t have class all day and I usually take advantage of the day by sleeping in for a bit in the morning before skyping with Mommy, Daddy, and Lauren. However, on this particular Thursday, I woke up early to the sound of my cell phone going off.

Molly was on the other end telling me to hurry up and come outside because John McCain was outside the doors of Shaoyuan. I really thought she was joking, but decided to throw pants on and go outside to see my friends since they were on break from Chinese class.

When I went outside, there was a huge banner hanging from the School of International Studies, located right across the street from my dorm that said, “Peking University Welcomes Senator John McCain.”

When we rounded the corner of Shaoyuan, we saw John McCain getting off of a typical, rickety, Chinese bus, with surprisingly no security. There actually were very few people around, so we actually had a pretty good view. Plus, it was basically John McCain’s white hair sticking out of a sea of black, Asian heads. He actually looks a lot older in person than on television. Apparently he was in Beijing to host a round table discussion with some of the professors in Beida’s School of International Studies.

The funny thing about this whole incident is that I live in Washington, DC and this doesn’t happen. Only in China will you wake up to John McCain outside your door!