Last week our little group of seven, accompanied by Professor Zhang and our Chinese language instructor/program coordinator travelled to Qingdao. Home to many avid sailors, delicious seafood, and beer lovers, the city of roughly eight million sits on the beautiful coast of the Yellow Sea. Qingdao was occupied by the German Navy for around thirty […]

Overall we spent around six days in the Chinese city of Qing Dao from September 14-19. Our activities generally revolved around Chinese tea culture, with secondary subjects of study being Qing Dao beer and Daoism.               We traveled by train for about two and a half hours from Jinan […]

It’s night out, and the air is a dim, tinted, somewhat opaque, dirty orange. Gargantuan neon red Chinese characters hang in the distance, as if suspended in the air. Massive flag poles rise out of a sea of haphazardly parked cars. We board a bus that will take us into the middle of the city. It […]

Being in Jinan gives us an opportunity to discover new and interesting things that would not have been possible anywhere else. We saw Shandong Normal University with the hug Mao statue at the entrance. The school was not in session but it was still very impressive. Among that, we went to a supermarket that’s two […]