Today’s lessons were good. We learned how to say time. Tomorrow we have a test, although I am not very nervous about it. After lunch we went to the art district 798. If I was going to live in Beijing, I would definitely want to live near there. The dozens of shops were all cool […]
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
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 was another rainy day, which set the mood nicely for our exploration of an artsy and hip neighborhood. After Mandarin class (I can’t believe it’s already our second-to-last one!) we headed to the 789 Art Zone located in the Chaoyang District. It felt very different from any other neighborhood we’ve been to in Beijing, and since it
Let’s say it in Chinese: Chi Jiu Ba! 798 is the name of a street home to many art galleries and cafes. We got to wander around the art houses for a couple of hours, but it was pouring rain the whole time. I wish I could have seen it in better weather! I went to
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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Today was yet another jam-packed day. We had Mandarin in the morning and learned how to talk about what activities we have been doing and will be doing in the days to come, which got me very excited for the rest of our time here. It’s really flown by and I’m trying to make the
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