Another day, another adventure in Beijing. On the agenda was Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace , and the Beijing Olympic stadiums. Amazingly, we got through everything with time to spare at the end! I guess it’s because we woke up at 7:00 AM and it took us the better part of the day to finish seeing everything. (I mean, we ate dinner at 10:00 PM…)
September 24, 2009
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09/03/2009 – Day 12 – Chinese provinces
Finally, the last day of classes for the first week. Chinese started the day as usual and it was followed by a better-than-expected lunch at one of the ECNU cafeterias. I had a bowl of noodles and at only 4 RMB, it was totally worth it.
Today was supposed to be a pretty crummy day, class-wise, because my original schedule had a huge 7 hour gap in between Chinese and Law and Society. Luckily, NYU is adding another Law and Society class at 1-4 PM, so I don’t have to wait until 5 PM to go to class. The professor, Dan Guttman, is really enthusiastic. He made a really good first impression. The first class was entertaining, as we introduced ourselves and had a little fun mapping out China’s geography. He [poorly] drew a shape representing China and we had to name places (provinces, cities, etc.).