{"id":10011,"date":"2017-11-03T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:04:20","slug":"more-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/11\/03\/more-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"More of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I just took my midterm for Chinese. While it makes me <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4149-169x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14368 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4149-169x300-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>happy to see all the progress I have accomplished, I also feel sad that in a few weeks I will be heading back home. China has been a great experience and I have learned so much from it<br \/>\nAs a part of our program, we are encouraged to participate in a Chinese speech contest.\u00a0In it, we write a small speech on &#8220;China through my eyes.&#8221; After that, we are asked a series of random questions.\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t sure if I wanted to be a part of it because I thought I wasn&#8217;t going to do very well. Fortunately, my professor encouraged me to participate. I still can&#8217;t believe it, but I ended up getting first place! It was a great feeling to see how far I&#8217;ve come with Chinese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4150-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14369 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4150-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Another great aspect of this trip has been all the different types of food I&#8217;ve been able to try! I&#8217;ve tried so many noodles, each one with a unique aspect to it.<br \/>\nMy favorite one so far has\u00a0been beef noddles of the<br \/>\nSichuan\u00a0region. It has a little spicy kick to it, and it&#8217;s delicious! I&#8217;ve also been trying all sorts of dumplings, and as of right now I still can&#8217;t decide which one is my favorite one. I even had the opportunity to make my own dumplings!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_3940-169x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14370 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_3940-169x300-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I also had the opportunity to take a weekend trip to Beijing. It was a 5 hour trip in the bullet train from Shanghai. In Beijing, I got to visit Tiananmen square, the Forbidden City, \u00a0Summer Palace, the Olympic Park, and the Great Wall! Going to the Great Wall was one of those things I couldn&#8217;t leave without doing. Despite the troubles we had getting there (we almost missed our bus), seeing the great wall was truly an amazing experience. As a part of my Beijing trip, I also tried one of their traditional plates, Pekin Duck or\u00a0<span lang=\"zh-CN\">\u5317\u4eac\u70e4\u9e2d in Chinese!! It was also very delicious, and it is defiantly something I would like to eat again before I leave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I just took my midterm for Chinese. While it makes me happy to see all the progress I have accomplished, I also feel sad that in a few weeks I will be heading back home. China has been a great experience and I have learned so much from it As a part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}