Today was our first day without anything on the schedule. This blog post is going to be very brief because for the majority of the day I caught up on missed sleep. I went to 798 to pick up some gifts for my family. I spoke Chinese to the taxi driver to say “798” and […]
On the Monday of this previous week, we had our first Mandarin class and also went to visit the Bank of China’s building along the largest street in Beijing. Of course, the architecture was almost all symbolic and had elements of different parts of China. The symbol for Bank of China was similar to ancient
On a this previous Tuesday, we had our second day of Mandarin Class. Overall, the course was very intensive, but studying paid off. After that second day of class, my mind was already starting to lose focus for learning and retaining information. But I believe I had managed to do well. In that afternoon, we
Today was a very nice day. We were able to relax and just do what we wanted to do, so I decided to do just that: relax. We started the day with breakfast and Then returned to our room to relax for the day. I had a few blogs I needed to catch up on
Finally a day of summer much needed rest and relaxation. Today we had the opportunity to go out and explore the city, or in my case catch up on some sleep. For the first time in two weeks I slept in. It felt great to wake up naturally. Ordering lunch was such a fiasco. Chris,
We had a day where we journeyed to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. What a massive place. Much of the art was very cool but initially we needed to find sources for our group projects. As we search around, we eventually found some art that would have been appropriate to be in the
When I was last in Beijing one of my favorite places was the Temple of Heaven. It’s great to see some of the local people out and about just living their lives. Whether they are playing Chinese chess, playing chess, or just spending time with their family. The temple structure itself is also magnificent to
We had quite the day today! We started off with breakfast per usual, but unlike every other morning this week so far wherein we had a lesson in Mandarin until thirty before noon, we had our final test in the language we have been learning for the past several days. When our professor had us
Galleries galore! We visited the 798 Art Zone today, which meant that we got to see so many works of creativity, from statues of elven centaurs and astronaut cows to paintings of people animated people with huge rose-colored eyes. The sky was gray and it rained all day long, making each gallery seem that much
Today we visited the 798 art district. Even the rain didn’t stop us, but sometimes it sent us into an art gallery! The whole area is very interesting because it was clearly abandoned at one point and yet many parts of it have been done up pretty nice. Other parts not as much. But finding
