China Language & Culture 2024

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...