Today we started our day off by having breakfast at 7:30. After breakfast we went on a public bus to go to the Shaanxi Museum at 8:30. The Shaanxi Museum had four different galleries that all related to China’s history and culture. While at the museum we split into teams and had a mini...
Continue readingFrom the top of Mount Hua!
Today we spent the day at 华山 or Mount Hua. We started off our day with a 7:30 breakfast and departed in two vans soon after. With the large amount of traffic in Xi’an during the morning, it took about two hours to reach our destination. After stopping at a rest stop, we ended...
Continue readingThe Wonders of Xi’an: Terracotta Soldiers and Biang Biang Mian
你好！ Today was a eventful day. Sadly it was one of our tour guide’s last day with us. After saying goodbye to Willy at breakfast, we set out to go see the terracotta warriors. We first went to a ceramics shop where workers hand make replicas of terracotta soldiers. They came in many shapes...
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Welcome American Moorestown Friends School!
Today we started our day early with a 7:00 breakfast at the hotel. Everyone had a choice between an American, British, French, or Swiss-styled breakfast — all of them were delicious. After that we got ready to go to the middle school. The entire group had to split up into two in order to...
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Xi’an: Ancient History and Dumpling Feasts
Today we woke up early in the morning. We got out of bed all packed and ready to go at 7 am. We left our hotel in Beijing and took a bus to the Beijing airport. While we were there several students bought Starbucks near our gate. A taste from home! We departed from...
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Service at the Bethel Orphanage
We started off our day with our usual breakfast of toast, eggs, sausage, and ham. Following that, we started our bus ride to Bethel, where we would volunteer for half the day. Before we started to work, we spoke to Anna, who gave us a brief introduction of the history of Bethel. It was...
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Another Beautiful Day in China!
China — Day Three 3/27/16 Today we woke up and had a wonderful breakfast at 8:30. We then got ready and prepared for our long ride to the Great Wall of China. We departed by bus at 9:00 and had a 2 hour ride to Beigoucun. We then went to a converted Brick Yard,...
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A Great First Day in China
After a tasty breakfast at our Beijing hotel, we started off with some friendly foosball competition, which became very intense. Later, we walked to the metro station. The underground space was very crowded. We took the train to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. We split up into three groups, and explored the City,...
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Greetings from Beijing!
3.24.16 and 3.25.16 We all met at MFS at 5:00am to catch the bus to the airport. Upon arrival we unloaded the bus and proceeded to check our bags. We then walked through security and to our gate. With 2 hours until departure we all split up to find food. After breakfast we all...
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2016 China Trip Ready to Go!
The China trip is tomorrow and everybody is very excited to go! Nobody knows exactly what to expect from this trip, but it is going to be a lot of fun. The trip sounds very exciting, and there are many things people are looking forward to. We are going to get to see many historical...
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