达慕思外国学习项目：2015年 · 中国 北京
Our classes at BNU ended, and we completed all our finals. We are packing for our exciting long trip to Southwest China. However, Laura and Kat left for the U.S. already; we miss them...
Kat Presenting Her Final Project of CH 11 "Writing Across China"
Laura Presenting Her Final Project of "Writing Across China"
We visited one of the thirteen Ming royal tombs in Beijing on Saturday, August 22. It was our last weekend trip for this summer's FSP.
On the evening of the Chinese Valentine's Day, we went to the National Centre for the Performing Arts next to the Tiananmen Square in Beijing to enjoy the holiday concert.
We were the VIPs:
The concert was great:
August 20, 2015 was Chinese Valentine's Day. We had our dinner at the headquarters of Quanjude 全聚德 in Beijing.
The restaurant manager gave us two selfie sticks as the holiday gifts.
Although extremely crowded, Cheng huang miao (Temple of Town God) and Yu yuan (Yu Garden) offered us lots of fun.
Door of Vase
The Lovely Group
Feeding the Fish
Obama & Mao
On Saturday, August 15, we visited the Bund in Shanghai:
Dishes in Nanjing were sweet.
Fish and salted duck
Shrimps and Oysters
Xing laoshi didn't expect that shao mai 烧麦 was everyone's favorite.
Steamed Cake in Ten-Thousand Layers was also very attractive.
Xiaolong baozi, steamed bun stuffed with juicy minced pork
Sticky rice balls with red bean porridge
Water Melon 🙂
Fuzi miao 夫子庙, Confucius's Temple, is a must go in Nanjing.
The Gate
The River
The Shop
The Restaurant
Dr. Sun Yet-Sen's calligraphy （博爱 and 天下为公） in Zhongshan Ling, Dr. Sun's Mausoleum:
We enjoyed the impressive design of the mausoleum:
On August 14, 2015, we visited Xing laoshi's alma mater Nanjing University of Finance & Economics (NUFE) in his hometown Nanjing.
Prof. Qiu Weifeng, Vice President of NUFE, delivered a welcoming speech:
Prof. Huang Neng, Dean of the International College of NUFE, chaired the welcoming ceremony:
We had a great time with NUFErs:
Several of us interviewed NUFErs for our "Writing Across China" projects:
