7/10 The Long Weekend Begins

For the next five days everyone in the program will have a break from classes to go travel around China, to a destination of their choice. There are several travel packages to choose from, but we are free to do our own thing. Some people are going to Inner Mongolia, some to Hanzhou, and others to visit family in other cities. I will be going on a student organized trip around Shangdong province to Chufu, Taishan, and Qingdao, in that order. We will leave tonight on an overnight train; I'm excited to see how it goes. Should be fun.