Beijing Home

In Beijing, the majority of people live in apartments. Where we live, there are many different communities, in which our apartments are located. Most community's have a parking garage and a courtyard. The courtyards typically consist of exercise equipment that elder people can use, and some entertaining things for children to play on.

Living in an apartment is very different from living in a typical American house. The apartments are much smaller than back home, and most of the only have one bathroom that the whole family shares.

For students that attend JSYY, school transportation is not an option. Most students live close enough to the school to walk, but there are few who must take a public transportation bus to get to school. Out of the eight American students attending JSYY, only one of them takes a bus to school, and the rest walk. The one American student that takes a bus to school lives outside of the school neighborhood.

Emmie