Shot these impromptu photos of a friend while at a birthday party in Wudaokou district of Beijing, China. My friend had stepped out to take a breather and myself as well. Shot off a few in front of her while she wasn’t looking then she caught on and started to ham it up. Wasn’t hard to figure out that she liked being in front of the camera so we did another mini shoot which I’ll post pics of later.

This district is where Tsinghua University, Beijing University and Beijing Cultural and Language University are located. In addition to the local Chinese there are also many foreigners from abroad in this district; finding a cozy cafe or bar where locals speak English isn’t hard (if you can find these precious “hole-in-the-walls”). Often times students will hangout or study at them, nothing different from other countries. In fact, some of the cafes had the ambiance of ones I’ve visited in London and France. The subway stop is “Wudaokou”. When you get out of the stop you’ll be at the main intersection of the district. On the north west corner there’s a pizza hut as well as a nice bakery/cafe called “Tour Les Jours”. If you walk to the south west corner and continue south past the bookstore, you’ll find two cafes on the 2nd and 3rd floors of two buildings. These two cafe are common hangouts for students and foreigners.