On Saturday we had the day to ourselves to explore the city some more! After a late start (sleeping in felt so good), Ellie and I were craving brunch and decided to check out Green Cow City Cafe. It was a really cute brunch spot in a courtyard behind an open-air market, with the only […]
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
Today we explored Beijing! It was a free day and Kaise, Chloe, Jean, and I attended a spa! It was definitely something that we all needed. It was the most satisfying massage I have experienced; it was really cool to see the difference between the American style and Chinese…and Chinese massages totally take the win.
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Today was a free day, which meant sleeping in! I woke up late, around 11am and it. Felt. Amazing. I was so happy to wake up and not have any immediate need to get up. After lounging for a bit with a book I finally crawled out of bed. Meeting up with a few people
To reiterate: I went to the spa, and got a full body massage with my friends. We even wore little pink matching massage robes! The massage was awkward at first, because our masseuses didn’t speak any English, and so we didn’t understand whether they needed us to sit up or lie down. We worked something
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Today we had the opportunity to explore Beijing on our own, or have some rest. I chose to relax and spend some time recuperating from the busy days we’ve had here! I ventured out to get pizza for lunch with a few other scholars, and then came back to the dormitory and watched some tv
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
