Second day of classes and everything's going well. My Chinese language class is pretty challenging, but I really like it. There are a lot of returning people in my class, so they're definitely better at me than speaking and know different vocabulary, but I guess it¡¯s good not to be the best in the class cause then it's hard to progress as fast....

So another summer has come and I am, once again, in China. I arrived in Beijing late last night, checked in at the school and soon feel asleep. Today has been a whirlwind of names and school information combinded with jet lag.  There are about 80 students studying at the school this summer. As the day went on and I answered the same ge...

So actually, sharing the train berth was fine.  Two guys who didnt speak english shared our room.  We all sat on the lower bunks for a bit, but after a bit they both went up to the upper beds, and the train turns all the lights down by 10 anyway. When we got to Beijing the next am, we kept being approached by drivers to take us to our ...

After making our way from Kathmandu via Dehli to Honk Kong and on to Beijing in 36hrs we were shattered. But we felt great to be in China. We spent 5 nights in Beijing and saw alot of the sights. The hostel had told us to get the bus no.3 to the last stop,which was perfect as we would have been screwed if we had to try and read the names on the ...

Sometimes it seems as if there is not more to Beijing than smog. Today was about 100F and the air was so thick due to smog and humidity that you could actually see it. Joel left today for a weekend in Shanghai and the 1st thing he SMSed me when he arrived was, "The air is so much better here!" Here in Beijing, if it is not hot, muggy and smoggy,...