The last week of October was a very, very busy week – honestly, the last month and a half of the program was packed, much more so than the rest of it. We had activities pretty much every day of the week in addition to classes and preparing for our week in Qufu.   On […]

Just accept that all of my blog posts happen well-after-the-fact, and your life will be much easier (though I’m sure the Overseas department and my professors are ridiculously frustrated with me for this, oops). In late October we visited a few of Jinan’s museums. On the 21st, Half the group went to the Shandong Art […]

While equally late as my previous post, this post shall not be as wordy. This one will mostly be picture post, because that’s really the only way to do it justice. The last two days of the week we visited Qufu, we stayed at a hotel in the Tai’erzhuang Ancient Town of southern Shandong province. […]

During the week of Thanksgiving, we are in Beijing. Before this though, I thought our Thanksgiving was going to be eating duck (not turkey) and not desserts-in my mind, it was pretty much another dinner in China on Thanksgiving day. Luckily, that was not the case and I celebrated my first Thanksgiving outside of the […]

We are in our final week here in Jinan. The weather has turned blustery and the air pollution has reached all time highs. On Sunday I returned from our final group trip to Beijing, which was so incredible. The city is bursting with history, politics, and a distinct international feel to it as well. Today […]