Green in the City
Posted August 17, 2015
Besides being a Global City in the Center of Europe, Berlin is also a very green city. During the second session of classes, we...Category: Trips & Excursions
Missing the Adventure
Posted August 12, 2015
Writing my last blog post means that my quarter in South Africa is officially over (even though I technically returned to the US almost...
Yellow Mountain in a Day
Posted August 10, 2015
The Wanxiang program goes to Hangzhou directly after getting back from Xi’an. We’ve been here for a week. The classes are a different topic...
Train Rides & Bike Rides
Posted August 7, 2015
The first round of classes are over now, and we’re 3.5 weeks into the program. Time for a break, and about two-thirds of the...
Acupuncture and Bloodletting, Oh My!
Posted August 6, 2015
There’s no fear of needles in my Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) class. For the last two weeks (and the next two weeks), I have...
Hamburg
Posted August 4, 2015
One weekend, IPD took us to Hamburg (with a high-speed train it only takes 1.5 hours!). This city in northern Germany is known as a...
The Great Wall of "My Legs are Killing Me"
Posted August 3, 2015
Ever since I was a kid, I was fed the lie everyone knows about- “You can see the Great Wall of China from Space!”....
Journey to the West (of Beijing)
Posted July 28, 2015
Over the long weekend break between the two sessions we went to Xi’an. It was a really cool experience to travel in China with...
Why I Speed-Walk
Posted July 27, 2015
Having been in China for a little over a month now, the single strongest impression I have of the country is its massive population....
Crawling Up The Great Wall
Posted July 14, 2015
These past couple of weeks in China have been a whirlwind of new experiences. Before I had even fully adjusted to the time change,...