Yesterday was the day I’d been waiting for!! After class, we visited the Jade Buddha Temple and the Old City God Temple. Let me start by saying, please google some pictures for reference. Unfortunately, uploading …
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Time for Two Temples: Buddhism and Daoism
上海 Blog #14 二零一五年六月三号星期四三 Wednesday June 3rd, 2015 Local Time: 21:23 Shanghai Time Had noodles once again for lunch today. The Jade Buddha Temple was the first stop on the agenda today. You want to …
Busy, Busy, Busy!
Today we split into three groups to meet our host families for the day. In my group was Deshawn, Omer, Kyra, and Emily! We visited a family that was about a ten minute walk away. …
Cultural Revolution Through Art
上海 Blog #13 二零一五年六月二号星期四二 Tuesday June 2nd, 2015 Local Time: 20:59 Shanghai Time Given this being my 13th blog post, I’d like to begin by debunking a common myth regarding China. In my hotel/dorm/thing whatever …
Bartering in 5 Easy Steps: Maybe a Car?
上海 Blog #12 二零一五年六月一号星期四一 Monday June 1st, 2015 Local Time: 22:59 Shanghai Time Don’t worry, I plan to keep this one short because I am exhausted and something about the heat wave today has my …
It’s Chinese to Me: Host Families and Wandering
上海 Blog #11 二零一五年五月三十一号星期四天 Sunday May 31st, 2015 Local Time: 23:56 Shanghai Time We broke up into groups of five to visit one of three host families. The family I visited wasn’t far from campus, …
The Maybe Not So Humble Administrator’s Garden
上海 Blog #10 二零一五年五月三十号星期四六 Saturday May 30th, 2015 Local Time: 21:00 Shanghai Time I was woken today by a knock at the door around 8 o’clock. A kind little maid began rapid fire Mandarin-ing me …
Out and About
My classes have been getting progressively better, which is wonderful. But I keep having to remind myself that we have actual homework and readings to do! I feel like we’re constantly busy, so when we …
Fashion Faux Pas –> Ice Cream
上海 Blog #9 二零一五年五月二十九号星期四五 Friday May 29th, 2015 Local Time: 23:00 Shanghai Time We had our first class quiz today in Chinese International relations. The quiz was oral and consisted of reading an article for …
You. Must. Eat. Chinese. McDonalds.
上海 Blog #8 二零一五年五月二十八号星期四 Thursday May 28th, 2015 Local Time: 0:32 Shanghai Time Today, I finally slept until my alarm went off. Yay, bye bye jetlag, hello Shanghai Time! After class was the urban planning …