Jim spent 4 weeks in Beijing with 18 school pals. Although he took 240 shots, these are his favourite. He not only used his iPod to store the piles of photos, but used it to record a few ambient Beijing sounds. You'll find one of these at the bottom of the photos. Jim wrote the background music in "Garageband" from snippets of Cantonese Opera and funky beats. He calls it "Excessively Corpulent ChinaTown" and wrote it for a party he had when the trip was postponed earlier in the year because of Avian Flu scares. Check out another Chinese composition & the party invite. You will need QuickTime for the music (Mac or PC).

The team prepare to drop him to the airport for his departure April 20th.

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view from hotel window	Jim and Emma at Scenic Hill	view of the Forbidden city
Yong He Gong	Yong He Gong again	everyone at Confusious temple
Ashleigh and Jim in chinese hats	Jim and a psycotic killer monkey	at the No. 20 Middle school
Flour Fight	Iced Tea for you	Paranoia
Jim and Emma at the forbidden city	Forbidden City	Summer palace canal
Ashleigh and Jim	Sitting at the Summer palace	on the Subway
Panda @ the Beijing zoo	Great Wall	Jim and Heine and the Wall
everyone at the wall	looking out to the wall	Wangfujing
Wangfujing by night	Temple of Heaven	Temple of heaven again
...and again...	Road construction