Well we just finished our first week of classes and this is the general outlook of my daily schedule:
8:00am-9:45am.......Grammar class
9:50am-10:25am......Taiji
10:30am- 12:00pm...Speaking class
Lunch
2:30pm-______........Lecture
Afternoon classes very based on the subject.
From last Monday to the 9th of March we have been studying History and Religions.
From March 10th to the 18th we have our Social Issues Seminar.
From the 19th to the 25th we are doing a "Yunnan Exploration Project" where we go off on our own and research and explore the province.
The 26th begins our city homestay and until April 11th we will be studying Minority Issues.
The 12th of April to the 26th we will be going to Dali, Lijiang and Shang-ri-la. During that time we will be spending 4 nights living with a rural family in Shaxi.
When we return on the 26th I will begin intensive language study until the end of the semester on the 28th of May.
This week we went to the Western Hills, a Buddhist mountain, on Wednesday. Friday we visited a Hui Mosque. The Hui people are the population of Chinese that are Muslim. On Sunday we went to a Miao (Mang) Village to learn about Christianity and minorities.
Please enjoy some more pictures of this weeks adventures:
Hello April! Your picture looks beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI just saw that they had a earthquake in Yunnan; Are you allright ?
Take care ,
Agathe