Culture is essential to a country and we cannot learn in a country without also knowing something about its culture. When I first got to China, I was shocked by the cultural differences between China and America again, even though I had been in China before. I had forgotten the differences in culture and I […]

Running a bit late with this by now, oops, but that seems to be the general state of affairs with me. I’ve been thinking, which apparently takes me about five times longer to do than everyone else, but… more or less since our arrival, we’ve had variations of the question “what are your impressions of […]

These past couple of weeks have been packed with adventure and new cultural experiences. One of the most important festivals in China is the Moon Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, which occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. This year it was on September 27th. It is at this time that the moon […]

From October 9th-17th we were given a week off to work on our independent projects, and if we had time we were also allowed to travel independently. Our projects vary from topics on the Chinese stock market, Chinese traditional medicine practices, to English learning in China. After sending out my survey on how Chinese Traditional […]

From the 7th to the 17th, the seven of us here in Jinan were allowed to travel independently around the country, as long as we managed to budget our time in order to also make adequate progress on our independent research projects. As much as I love living in Jinan, I knew that I needed […]