Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
By Andrew Today, we started off the day with a large breakfast buffet at the hotel. We had choices ranging from omelettes to steamed pork buns. After breakfast, we got on the bus at 8:15 a.m. to Xi’an Foreign Languages University. There we took classes about calligraphy and tai chi. In calligraphy, we learned...
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By Kartik and Tony 你好! (Hello!) Today is our second day in Xi’an, which is the city where we’ll spend the most time during our trip this year. Today, we had a later start, beginning at 9:30 a.m. This gave us all a chance to eat breakfast and hang out with friends at the...
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By Sarah, Jena, Nicole 大家好！ Hello everyone! Greetings from Xi’an! Xi’an (西安) is Ms. Li’s hometown （老家), and we’ve heard so many wonderful things about it, so we were very excited to start our tour! Xi’an is one of the most historical cities, especially in China, since it was the capital of China for...
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你好! (Hello!) This morning we woke up at the same time as yesterday (around 6 a.m.) to eat breakfast. Many of us ate 油条 which are fried bread sticks dipped in hot soy milk. After we finished eating, we brought our luggage to the bus and started our one-hour drive to the Forbidden City....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024By Emmie and Morgan 你好! (Hello!) Today we will be overviewing our first full day in Beijing! Today is the third official day of our trip overall. This morning we had an early start with our alarms set at 6 a.m. in our hotel rooms, but we were all soon relieved...
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Day two of the China trip consisted of a visit to the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and a four-hour flight to Beijing. We started off the day at 6:30 a.m. with a breakfast buffet at the hotel, which included many foods like mantou (steamed bread), toast with different spreads, and traditional soft rice...
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欢迎（Welcome!) On today’s blog, we’ll be detailing the first three days of our IL trip to China. After arriving to school at 5:45 p.m., we all shoved our luggage into our bus before saying goodbye to our loved ones for the next 10 days. The bus was filled with fun conversations and liveliness, with...
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Today, we started off the day with an amazing breakfast at our 5-star hotel. After a one-hour bus ride, we arrived at the Yikang Nursing Home. We learned that they have three buildings in total. The one we were going to visit had 23 floors. All the rooms there are designed to meet the...
Continue readingToday we woke up early and ate a delicious breakfast in the Nanjing Airport Hotel. We then took a lovely bus ride to the train station where we departed from our amazing tour guide, Li Li, who sang us a captivating song that captured the essence of our eternal friendship. After the surprisingly short...
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Today we started our day from the hotel, eating a leisurely breakfast and departing at 9 AM. We drove to the foot of Nanjing’s highest mountain range, and gazed up at the shrine high above us. We walked up a long wooded path and up a wide staircase before turning around and looking down...
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We started the day off with breakfast at the hotel. Afterwards, we took the bus to the Nanjing massacre museum and memorial, where we learned about the killing of 300,000 Chinese people prior to the Second World War. Next, we traveled to the Nanjing wall and rode bikes on the 35 kilometer path on...
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Our fifth day started off just as the ones before it, but the group soon sensed it was unique in its adventure. The day was full of firsts from bullet trains to Buddhas as the group began our bus ride to the glowing sun rising over the Summer Palace. We walked through a long...
Continue readingToday we visited the Great Wall of China! After starting off the day with another amazing breakfast, we took an almost two hour-long bus ride to the base of the Wall. It was about a 25 minute hike up to the top, which was incredibly steep, but not enough to drain us because once...
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Today, we all woke up to a 6am wake up call and ate a lovely breakfast at the hotel’s buffet. We then hopped on the bus and headed to a public park outside the Temple of Heaven, fully equipped with different kinds of exercise gear. After playing some shuttlecock with a few of the...
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Today we went to a local school in Beijing. All of the kids were very welcoming and kind. We started off the day by visiting different classrooms for different electives such as mechanics and cooking class. At their school instead of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) they have added Arts into the acronym...
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