This past week has literally flown by! Our chinese language class is great, our teacher's are hilarious and we've almost learned more in these past two weeks that I have in the past two years! This week we had Karaoke night, a trip to the Presidential Palace and a Chinese Calligraphy class. Karaoke night was fun, no one got too into it but we all had a good time. The Presidential Palace housed the President of the Republic of China before 1949 when the republic moved to Taiwan. It was pretty but not as grand as the White House, which was what a few of us seemed to be expecting to see.
Our Second calligraphy class was just as great as our first, last time we painted cherry blossom trees while our teacher taught us how to paint bamboo and shrimp this past class. He seemed to paint with such ease that we all thought calligraphy would be a cinch but it turned out to be very difficult.
sThe weather here is still rainy and humid, although a few days ago we actually saw the sun! That makes four times in the past three weeks where we've been able to see the sun while in China. crazy!
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ReplyDeletefrom Helen and Sam Zukin:
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel, It looks like you are having an amazing experience. How is it going with the foreign money, yuan? Is it very confusing?
What kind of dessert do they have?(Sam)
Have you had any "interesting" food, sharkfin, cockroach? (Sam again)
Does the air seem clean? (Helen) When we were in Beijing the air felt thick, oppressive and I think it smelled. Is Nanjiing the same.
Hi Helen and Sam!
ReplyDeleteI'm having a fantastic time! The currency is very easy, about 6 yuan equals one dollar so we just divide everything by 6.
they're big on fruit for dessert here, watermelon and oranges mostly, but they also have ice cream.
the most interesting food I've had is duck, nothing too crazy!
the air does feel oppressive and thick, it's also very very humid, Nanjing is the second most humid city in china unfortunately!