Sick in Beijing

Sunday I woke up and was feeling horrible. Matthew and I decided to try and go to the Great wall the next day. The only problem was that I was running a fever had a horrible cough and just felt horrible. At least I wasn't having stomach distress though.

Lotus was really good to Matthew and I and she let us just hang out in the room we were in. Finally after realizing that most of my time in Beijing was going to be spent looking out the window at the gray sky and bear tree branches, Matthew and I gave up on going to the Forbidden City and Great Wall. I tried to send Matthew to the Great Wall without me but he didn't want to leave me. I have to say that I slept a lot but would have missed him had he gone. He did go out and find a nice coffee shop where he could use the internet.

Finally on our last full day in Beijing I decided we needed to go out and at least see something of the city. We got a cab and went down to the part of Beijing where we could go shopping. It also happened to be in the old part of Beijing so we could see older buildings. It was nice to get out but it was drizzling and not a very nice day. While I didn't have a fever anymore I still had a cough, which was debilitating. Every time I coughed I would hold on to Matthew and hope not to fall over. Our day out ended with us not being able to get a cab back. We got in a motorcycle taxi after him agreeing to 40 yuan, however when we got there he said no he wanted 40 US dollars, we would not pay him that and he was really upset. In the end we payed him 100 yuan which was really expensive for a taxi ride. I was so tired by then that all I wanted was to go to bed.