NU in China » jasmine rassiwala http://blog.ipd.northwestern.edu/nu-china Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 5 Day Break http://blog.ipd.northwestern.edu/nu-china/blog/2009/07/5-day-break/ http://blog.ipd.northwestern.edu/nu-china/blog/2009/07/5-day-break/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:59:43 +0000 jasmine rassiwala http://blog.ipd.northwestern.edu/nu-china/?p=137 It is about halfway through our program and so we just had our 5 day break. A bunch of my friends and I went to see a couple of places. The highlight of our trip came towards the end. We all climbed about  a mile-high mountain called Tai Shan. It took about 4.5 hours to climb and was a bit of a challenge, but we all felt like we achieved something as soon as we reached the top. Looking down at the city was amazing, and I encourage anyone thinking about the program next year to look into a trip there. The following day we went to Confucious’s home. I am not going to lie, it was a little boring and hard to survive because of the humidity and the week-long fatigue that finally caught up to us. But then all of a sudden it started pouring, and the rain went on for hours. Even those of us with umbrellas got entirely soaked.

We had to sit in a trolley for about an hour waiting for the rain to stop, and because it still wouldn’t the driver finally agreed to drive through the streets. There was already about 6 inches of rain on the ground and because the roads were uneven there were parts in our drive to our bus that had more water than that. At one time, our trolley began to flood!

Overall the 5 day trip was a great experience and it was really fun to get to know the people on the trip better!

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