Today was the second, and last day, that was dedicated to spending time with our host families and sightseeing. More importantly, today is also Skylar's 16th birthday. Since we did not have classes today, our families, along with Aidan's host family, went to 庄州 for the entire day. At first, I did not know what to expect. My host family had only told me it was a farm on the country-side...
There are 31 other NSLI-Y participants, 4 teachers, 4 chaperones, 3 host families, 2 host parents, and 1 tutor that have all become my best friends these past few weeks. As the program comes to an end, I have been thinking about how much I will miss these people. I am used to seeing these 41 faces everyday, all day. I'm used to waking up and seeing their face first thing in...
七月二十七号，星期三 今天我想用中文写我的日记。 我希望你享受它。 今天我很忙，很累。 昨天我二十点睡觉， 今天我六点三刻起床。因为今天我的队友 E-Portfolio, 所以我们八点十分到厦门大学。 今天是个平凡的日了可是我的中国姐姐跟我来学校。我的中国姐姐， Crystal, 跟我去了课。 早上我们有三接中文课了。下课以后我们去吃午饭了。 我们在新餐厅吃了午饭。 我吃了很多米饭， 肌肉， 和西国。很好吃！然后我跟 Crystal 在市场买了冰淇凌. 我爱冰淇凌！我吃了冰淇凌以后去我的老师的宿舍因为他有空调。我们享受了空调然后我们去文化课。 警察应该会来我们的课， 但是他没来因为他有会议。那， 我们有一门特别的课。 我们有一场研讨。我们聊天人关于中国的文化。比如，一胎制，LGBT 人权，人工流产。 我的同学问很多问题关于敏感的话题。 下文化课，...
I have been in China for almost one whole month. Looking back on PDO seem like so long ago, but yet again I wish this program would never end. Living in the dorms was like a taste of what college would be like in 2 years. But living with a host family has been entirely different. Being completely emerged in a society that has such a different culture and language than you are...
I could eat all of these in one sitting Sunday was our first day without classes!!! The entire day was dedicated to free time, or that's at least what we all thought. But no, our host families took full advantage of this day to show case their new 外国人. There is a WeChat groupchat with all the host parents and the chaperones; us kids nicknamed it the "Brag Chat" because...
Friday evening was dedicated to meeting/ moving in with our host families. Instead of having tutor time, we all gathered in the lecture hall with our soon to be families for the next two weeks. We lined up on stage and one by one they called out names and our host families came up to "claim us" as 陈老师 would say. Thankfully, we were called in alphabetically order by our last name,...
Yesterday, we were given the privilege to go to the most famous tourist spot in all of 厦门。 鼓浪屿 is a small island that you can see from 厦门大学. On preview NSLI-Y 厦门 programs, they never scheduled for the students to visit this island, because they always expect the host families to take the children. But last year a lot of host families didn't take the participants; therefore, this...
July birthdays Sunday, July 17, we celebrated all the July birthdays. After a regular day schedule we went to a restaurant instead of the cafeteria, for dinner. The restaurant was on the first floor of our dorm building. They ordered our food ahead of time (they asked us during class what we wanted) so it was ready when we got there at 5:30. I ordered a spicy chicken dish...
Today was titled "mingle day" so they forced us, instead of encouraged us, to sit with the locals at lunch and dinner. Besides that today was a normal day, besides our weekly buddy activity. Last week we did a scavenger hunt to get to the know the campus. They gave us photos of locations around campus and our assignment was to find the places and take an identical picture as the...
Today was Immersion Day which means ONLY Chinese speaking, NOT ENGLISH what so ever. For incentive they used the point system as a prize again. Therefore, if any adult chaperon heard/ saw you speaking English they would take away points every time. It was hard but I made it through the day, speaking less than normal. Other than immersion day, today was a normal day with classes...
Our desks; the tables fold down Today was another normal day with classes, classes, and more classes. In Chinese class we practiced making appointment. I realized I haven't showed you what our classroom looks like. It is actually really nice. It's in the Foreign Language building which is newly renovated, except they must of forgot to update the bathrooms because they...
The Maritime Silk Road Museum Today, July 12, all of the 32 NSLI-Y 厦门 participants traveled to 泉州, an ancient city that was part of the maritime Silk Road. Our first stop was at the QuanZhou Maritime Museum. Walking into the exhibits was breathtaking with multiple real ruins displayed as well as replicas. Also because of the breeze coming from the air conditioning machines....
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