Emmy and I weren’t entirely sure how to spend our free day, but knew from the start that it had to involve some delicious food. We also wanted to find more local places to visit as it was starting to feel like much of our adventures revolved around tourist hot spots and incredibly historical spaces. […]
Although we were all thrilled to be immersed in such a cool area filled with such interesting art, Christian, Emmy and I all got pretty tired of the rain pretty quickly. We were all well equipped with umbrellas, but took the opportunity to duck inside as soon as we found it. We spent a lot
24 hours from now, we will be on a plane heading back to the United States of America. 24 hours from now, our past few weeks spent in Beijing may seem like an extensive dream, completely surreal in the midst of our subsequent days after landing back home. As I sit here writing this in
Today we had the opportunity to explore some of the finer Chinese arts of calligraphy, knot tying, and tai chi. I was pretty impressed with the knot tying, the knots were simple to perform but looked very impressive. In no time at all I walked away with a small bracelet that actually looks like something
Today was an exciting and busy day. We traveled to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City while also watching a small act of a Chinese Opera. Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City are massive. Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in all of Asia, if not the world. The Forbidden City once had 9,999
For our second to last full day in Beijing, we did quite a few amazing things. First, bright and early in the morning, we visited the Forbidden City, which was astounding. Our tour guide shared a number of super interesting facts about the Forbidden City with us, such as the fact that the Forbidden City
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Several days ago, our Mandarin professor briefly told us about Peking University, describing it as the “Harvard of China.” Today, we finally got to visit this school of fables, and from the moment we walked in through its large archway, I could see that the significance of Peking University was certainly not overstated by any
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Today we had the opportunity to visit Peking University, see a lecture on a professors research, and tour the campus. The campus is very impressive. For one they have their own lake and a rather large garden to accompany the lake. Their library is the largest University library in Asia. The lecture was on nationalism
Today, we were invited to another university to hear a lecture about Chinese Nationalism. It was interesting to hear the points made by the professor about why Chinese Nationalism has never truly been on the rise and why the opinions that may be negative towards Western society are most likely published for profit and may not
Chloe, Nicole, Kaise and I spent our free day at a spa today! We each got full-body and foot massages, and for almost two hours, we all got to sit back and relax while having the knots in our muscles smoothed out. The highlight of our day at the spa, however, was when we did
