This morning, after a hurried breakfast the Chinese and American students piled into the bus again and began our journey. We started our day off with tales of love and romance. One of the students told us about the Chinese holiday similar to Valentines Day, QiXi. Then the American students exchanged our version of love […]
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Taking Chinese students to two significant New York locations, the Rockefeller Plaza and United Nations building, is a great experience. These locations are more special while with foreign students because of their significance to international affairs and globalization. Following an authentic Chinese lunch just off the UN Plaza, we made our way to the
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Today is one of the last days the American and Chinese students got to spend together before we leave for China. We spent the morning bus ride talking about the Qixi Festival and American Valentine’s Day. I shared the love story from the Titanic as an example of American culture. Someone shared the story of
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Today, we built bridges instead of walls. Starting the day, I didn’t know a lick of Chinese, but by midnight, I was confident in my ability to say “I don’t understand” in Mandarin. As such, our trip to Central Park was certainly one that brought two sides of the globe together by flattening out language
Today Rainbow Bridge took part in Brooklyn’s annual International Friendship march in which a member of each country represents their native home and marches amongst the rest. I think its most definitely one of the most exciting experiences we’ve had. Ecstatic citizens all aligned ready to represent their country throughout New York and transmitting their
I had never heard of the international friendship parade before, nor had I ever been in a parade before. Being the delegate of Chile was definitely more than a surprise. Since I was next to China, I had a first rate view of the performers while they were practicing before the parade started. The music
If I thought yesterday was tiring, I had no idea what I was in for today. We spent the whole day in the same place, but it was quite an elaborate adventure. Not only did we get to see Brooklyn’s Third Annual Friendship Day, we were given the opportunity to march in the parade ourselves.
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Welcome to day 2 of my Trip. Today, Aug 7 2016 is the International Day of Friendship! Who doesn’t love friendship? To celebrate the newfound friendship between us American and Chinese students, we all volunteered at the friendship festival held at Long Island University. The festival’s main event was a parade, featuring flags from over
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Colorful flags filled the air of Brooklyn as we marched down Fulton Avenue to the Brooklyn City Hall. Today was National Day of Friendship so we volunteered in the parade. When we arrived I was excited to see a Juniors Cheesecake right across the street. Everyone in the area says Juniors is the best cheesecake
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Luckily for the scavenger hunt, I was paired with Jean, a NYU student just as committed to seeing all the sights and not moving too fast as I am. Our group moved slowly throughout the park, stopping at every nook and cranny we were curious about. This resulted in some fabulous photos and some peculiar
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