Tag Archives: China
Dujiangyan, Sichuan: Week 2
Well, so now it has officially been 4 months since I have returned back to Germany from China, but I still have a blog post to write. Sorry, sorry! I know that you are probably all over my Chinese experiences by now, but I just couldn’t leave the topic with only half of my time […]
Dujiangyan, Sichuan: Week 1
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Yes that’s right… it is the fourteenth day of 2015 and I am only now getting around to updating about the rest of the things I experienced in China. I’ve been home for over a month and, honestly, settling back in to Berlin life was not difficult at […]
Yangshuo, Part II
On my third day in Yangshuo I woke up before the sun and quickly, albeit groggily, took my bike Andre to head south of town to Moon Hill. It was so nice to be able to bike on the normally busy main road leading out of town and actually feel like I wouldn’t be run […]
Beijing, Part III: Tiananmen Square & the Forbidden City
Waking up Sunday morning I was sore and tired from my miles of walking and Great Wall hiking I’d already done in Beijing, but I knew to beat some of the infamous Chinese crowds, getting an early start was imperative. Taking the bus around 8:30, the 4-5 kilometers from my hostel to Tienanmen Square ended […]
Beijing Part II: The Great Wall & Beijing Opera
Though I always wanted to see it, the Great Wall of China was not originally on my list of things to do in Beijing. I didn’t think I’d have enough time (the decent section of the wall takes around 2 hours to get to from Beijing) and wanted to better use the limited time I […]
Beijing Part I: The Summer Palace
Well wow, where to begin? I am currently in the small city of Dujiangyan in western Sichuan Province where I have been helping run a training related to my internship in Shanghai. We’ve been here for a week, have another week on-site and today is our free day. So I’m updating y’all a bit! Mid-September and […]
Notes on the First Month in China
Today is Tuesday. And I woke up at the unapologetically late time of 9:30 am. See, it’s October 1st, and the first day of the Chinese National Holiday week, meaning I have the week free. But there’s something funny about it as well, which I’ll come to later… I have been in China now for […]
Shanghai: Zhujiajiao
As my first month in China rounds out to a close, I am realizing just how fast the time seems to be going here. Not that I don’t miss Berlin, because of course I do every second, but because with working five days a week at my internship and sightseeing on the weekends, it feels […]
Suzhou & The Mid-Autumn Festival
Last Monday was the Mid-Autumn Festival here in China. I suppose using the Chinese calendar, the date qualifies as midway through autumn, but it felt like anything but. Instead of sweaters, pumpkin-spiced lattes and crisp colored leaves, “mid-autumn” in Shanghai is boiling hot, extremely muggy and drenched in sweat. The good thing though was that it […]
Shanghai: Tianzifang Market, Fazangjiang Temple & the Bund
To round out my first week in Shanghai, my roommate and I went with her Chinese university buddy to do some sightseeing on Saturday. First we went to the Tianzifang Market. The small maze of alleyways off of Taikang Road was built as a residential neighborhood near the French Concession in the 1930’s. It was […]
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