Until Next Time…
Posted August 17, 2015
It’s hard to believe just how quickly these past eight weeks have passed by. When we first arrived, we were bright-eyed bushy-tailed as we...Category: NUinChina
Soothing End
Posted August 17, 2015
Blind persons give you a Chinese massage in 盲人按摩. While I heard about this practice, I never had the time to investigate. Time not spent...
Goodbye, Beijing!
Posted August 14, 2015
As I begin to pack up my room, the feeling is definitely bittersweet. On the one hand, I can’t wait to get back to...
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...
Lose Yourself to Dance
Posted August 4, 2015
During the Long Weekend, which is a break between the two, four-week sessions of classes on this program, my group chose to go to...
Oh, you speak Chinese?
Posted August 4, 2015
It’s the question everyone asks you here, and it has dramatically raised my awareness as to the relationship race has within my identity. In...
The plan is to finish strong
Posted August 3, 2015
Down to about two more weeks in China! It’s getting to the point where a lot of us are getting homesick. You wake up...
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!”....