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Chicken Busin' on the Yellow River + Beijing
... to much food. We then went down to the nice central part (on the outside of town, a modern thing) and wandered around lit up floats dedicated to the first ever Black Cattle Festival, till it was time for us to be shipped off to our hotel. That was a shocker, it was easily the nicest hotel in the city, and a lot nicer than most I've stayed in while on my own in my life. It was a shame to have only one night there.....
The next day we ended up ...
Afternoon Tea
... when hot water is poured over him. While Auntie cleaned the cups and leaves in preparation, she would dump the unusable water over the toad and make him light up with warmth! As her guests, we were served three kinds of delicious tea; oolong cha (乌龙茶: flower tea), hong cha (红茶: red tea), and pu'er cha (普洱茶: I'm not really sure what this tea really is). As if all that tea ...
The Home Stay
... over the edge, mainly because the Internet is my main form of communication with my friends and family, plus this blog ^_^! The second was when we got back from climbing Mount Tai and I found out that I was expected to turn around and spend another hour or so in the car to go to my host family's house that evening.
I know it seems like it's not that big of a deal, but I was pretty tired and wasn't expecting to leave until the ...
Tourist Time
... Museum was actually pretty neat, but the ceramics museum was so so. As a part of our program we have a guide from the university who speaks very good English. His name is Boru (though I'm not sure how to spell it) and he just graduated from high school in May. I'm very impressed every time he opens his mouth to speak English, because it's not everyday that you find someone with such a wide vocabulary in a second language. Boru will be ...
Ganbei!
Our day in Beijing was only temporary, so the next morning we headed to Zibo on an East-bound high speed train. Zibo is where we will spend the next week and a half of our time in China, on the campus of Shandong University of Technology. When we arrived in Zibo, we were excitedly greeted by members of the international program at the university, promptly taken to our dorms, and lo and behold, fed! I have a feeling that if we ...