Beijing: Day Two

TIENANMEN SQUARE AND FORBIDDEN CITY!!

Beijing: Day One

It was a bad start to a pretty good week. Haha...

Nanjing Vids!!!

Videos from Nanjing!!!

From Beginning Until Now

I'm always MIA...I know. BUT!! I have blogs from the (almost) beginning of the CIEE CGC program up until now. SO the next few posts will be videos.

P.S. Right now I'm in Beijing, for I plan on having vlogs (thats right, right??) on my time in Beijing! ENJOY!!!




This blog is just me talking to friends.

The first girl is Liz: goes to Georgetown. Intelligent. Hilarious. Holla at me if you need her number!! Haha..jokes, jokes.

Next girl is Jen: Hilarious. But, off limits. Love her to death, that gamer girl. Haha.

Last girl (on the bed) is Nicole: Sweetest girl you'd EVER meet! But you know what they say, its always the quiet ones! Haha...

Another blog already?!

Yes, yes! I know! I'm so bad with this thing but I have managed to post a new blog in a relatively short time between the last one! :oD So I uploaded pictures up on facebook from my trip to Nanjing and other fun activities here in China...fun fun FUN!!

Still, here is a little taste for all of you guys who do not have access to my facebook account:




So what do you guys think??? Awesome, right? Just look at my albums on facebook for the rest of the pictures. China is just completely incredible, cheap, beautiful (hen piaoliang!), and quite an experience. I'm actually thinking about looking for internships here..maybe for the summer?? I have no clue. But, I have nothing else to do for the summer, so why not??

ALSO!! Did I tell you that our plan is to go to Tibet for spring break?? A bunch of us girls are looking into it. I mean, we could go ANYWHERE else, but how many people get to say that they went to Tibet?? Exactly. So, we're going! Hopefully everything falls into place because I've never actually done anything out of this world for spring break..this just might have to be it! Can't waiitttt!!!!

P.S. no one is getting back to me about what they want to read on the blog. Does that mean that you guys are enjoying it already? If so, YAY!! Haha...

Nanjing!!!

I was just in Nanjing this weekend...what a weekend! Ha...

The weekend actually started off kind of depressing because we went to this museum about the Nanjing Massacre during World War II...saw and read so many different things that could put chills up and down your spine. The thought of inhumane comes to mind. But, whatever, it was in the past and (I hope) this is a lesson learned because I would never want something like this to happen again in my lifetime...or anyone else's.

But, other than that, we went to the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen and the Confucius Temple. The temple wasn't the most interesting thing (except for the garden) simply because the layout of the whole display was out of wack. Perhaps it may have also been because the translations and what not were confusing. The mausoleum, on the other hand, was amazing (pictures will be up soon). The scenery was completely amazing. Even though the weather is cloudy (not was..is! China is all around cloudy and the mere sight of the sun can earn enough praise to start a fiesta...zhongwen zenme shuo "fiesta"?? [how do you say "fiesta" in Chinese??]). We got to see how the mauselum looked like before it was bombed during World War II. Overall, the trip to Nanjing was an educational one.

As for the night life? I mean, we had fun...but...let me just say that it was not my cup of tea. In the whole area of things to do at night, there was only one lounge. ONE. I don't want to go CLUBBING...I want to hang out, listen to good mucic, have fun, and have stories for the next day. But, no. First, I get jipped out of a drink. We show up to this club and I decide to buy a drink. After I pay, my friends say they don't want to stay anymore. I mean, the club was PACKED so I could understand. So I decide to ask for my money back. Nope. Not going to happen! So I decide to just get the drink, have it, and then leave. I show up to the bar and they ask me what I ordered. WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT DID I ORDER??? So I ask for my money back again! They say they can't do that, so they bring me out two drinks (mind you, I only ordered one) and give me the change for the two drinks (as if I asked for the two of them...*sigh*) So I drink one, and give the other to a friend only to find that they gave me SODA. Ugh...I leave afterwards and never look back! Of course I'm upset afterwards, but we ended up going to the only lounge in that area, which had a pretty good live bar. Unfortunately, they only played a few songs...so basically that was the highlight of my night. That and being goofy with my friends. Yep. What a night. But nothing compares to Shanghai!!

Ok. That's about it. I'm procrasinating and I really have TONS of Chinese homework to do, so talk to you later with the picttures!!!

P.S. My roommate, Miriam, says I get a cool star sticker for being such a cool blogger! SWEET! I love sarcasm. Haha...