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Shanghai Week 8- Beijing State of Mind
Welcome back! It's great to see you all again! Well...I can't really see any of you, but...you get the point. Now, I left off when I was getting on a plane in Xi'an and heading to the final destination on our midterm excursion. Where were we going? Well, the title of the post kind of gives it away so I suppose there's no use in trying to prolong the suspense.
Yes, we went back to Beijing for the second part of our midterm excursion, and the group was all abuzz ...
Carolina's visit
... set plans. We were very happy with everything we saw on the trip so far. So we had a slow and easy start to the day with a late lunch. We then headed off to the Lama Temple. After heading to Confucius Temple. Where we meet a grow of high school student who were there to share facts with us in order to practice their English. They were very sweet and shy.
We had a chill Sunday night in order to prepare for our flight the next morning. Monday would be ...
Oh Travels
... the flag ceremony, we decided to go find food. We went to the same area which I walked the night before and ended up in some Chinese restaurant. We pointed at random foods and it was actually quite delicious! We had Beijing duck, Chinese greens with garlic, some mushroom/chicken dish, and some type of vegetable/meat meatballs. We were quite full by the time we were finished. Then we walked around for awhile. Jonas, one of the guys, saw this laser beam toy which this guy ...
I climbed the Great Wall of China!
... that it was a pretty good climb. Some parts were
more steep than others, and some steps were very high. I felt like I
was doing lunges not walking up stairs (Erin, I'm getting my
conditioning done for our half-marathon). Every now and then we took
a break and enjoyed the beautiful views and took a few pictures as
well. It's impossible for me to explain the beautiful imagery. Dr.
Sun and I were talking about how tiring it must be for the vendors
...
Last day to spend money...
... Market (antiques, etc…) with Irene. I was warned that the students would hate the Dirt Market and that was exactly their reaction. So they headed straight back to the Silk Market for some more shopping.
Our last meal was a combination of our favorites at Brother’s restaurant, a place we frequented often during our trip. In chose some spicy noodles that we ...
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