I am beyond excited to be able to travel to Ecuador next spring! I am also becoming increasingly nervous as the reality of the difficulties will be. I am sure that the first month in particular will be scary, because I still don’t feel extremely confident in my Spanish, and the cultural differences will be […]
Pre-Qufu weekend
The weekend before we went to Qufu – Saturday the 31st of October and Sunday the 1st of November – I had the beginnings of a horrible cold, so our schedule was a little miserable for me. Saturday we went to a mall to watch a new movie, “Mountains May Depart,” in the morning. Don’t […]
Jiu Ding Ta
Friday October 30th we went on a field trip with the other international students – one of the first times we’ve gotten to interact with them at length, actually! – and some of the Chinese students to Jiu Ding Ta, which is a… “cultural amusement park” about an hour out of Jinan. The park’s attractions […]
SDNU’s 65th Anniversary
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 […]
Jinan Museums…
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 […]