Today, we had our last full class of Mandarin. It was another struggling day as my own brain is jam packed with words I barely understand from the past four days of study and class. Afterwards though, we took a nice stroll down an art street called “798”. I have never heard of it before […]
Today we went to the 798 Art Zone. There we saw many galleries of sculptures, paintings, and other forms of art. The first gallery was extremely detailed and precise. Pieces were made from metal and then some sort of colored glaze was poured on top. After we all split up, some of us went to
Today it happened. I completely lost my voice. As much as I wanted to be fully involved with Mandarin and repeat everything our loucher said, I wasn’t able to. Everyone was very understanding about how sick I am, which I very much appreciate, but I was still disappointed to feel like I couldn’t fully be
Today in Mandarin we learned about how to further introduce ourselves and our families. Although I still feel unable to properly pronounce anything, I found the system with which to introduce older and younger siblings, of which I have none, quite interesting. I am still very impressed with our professor’s ability to make class both
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What a day! We visited the National Museum of China today. There, we had the chance to look around for about an hour and a half, so I took the time to look at some ancient Chinese artifacts, as well as sculptures depicting significant events from Chinese history. My favorite part of the visit was
Today we went to the Nat’l Museum of China. After going through security and drinking my from my water bottles to prove it was not harmful or poisonous, we split up to go explore the various exhibits. Eventually, I was drawn to the Ancient China exhibit. Pieces from the Han and Qing dynasty, still
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Today was a day for the arts after we had Mandarin class today. The class we take for mandarin is very difficult and requires diligent study. As we continue to learn more and more in Mandarin class, I begin to scramble meanings for words for others. It can become very confusing. After class, we had
Class today went so much better than yesterday. The material better stuck today and I was able to recall the info from yesterday. I was worried that I’d be just as lost as yesterday and mood would be horrible, but luckily it was not. Today’s activity was volunteer work with children at a school for
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The day began as yesterday did, with breakfast followed by Mandarin-language class. We learned how to talk about our families and where we are from and where we are living today, which perhaps is not a lot in the grand scheme of an entire language, but feels like an auspicious beginning to gradual proficiency of
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Today we had our third Chinese language class. Our memory is starting for retain the small phrases and questions we study. After class, we took the bus to a rehab center for disabled people up to 35. We worked in their shoes to make small hand soaps. We made the melted soap, colored it, and
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