{"id":900,"date":"2013-06-01T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=900"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:41:14","slug":"closing-time-chelsea-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/01\/closing-time-chelsea-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Time-Chelsea Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well today was our last night in China. \u00a0Leaving tomorrow will be very bittersweet, because I am so ready to see AMERICA and my family, friends, food, and sweet puppy, but I have enjoyed soaking in the culture and learning so many new things!<\/p>\n

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Me at the Great Wall!<\/p><\/div>\n

The past two days might have been my favorites, aside from our performance night, because of the places we visited. \u00a0Yesterday, we visited one of the Seven Wonders of the World, The Great Wall. I was so excited to climb it. \u00a0I was amazed by the beautiful landscape that surrounded the wall that stretches for over 5,000 miles. \u00a0It was amazing to think that a structure of that size was completely man made and if you died during construction your body was just plastered into the wall. \u00a0Crazy to think about, huh?<\/p>\n

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Theatre students before climbing the Great Wall.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Great Wall of China! Steepest part of the climb!<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, yesterday we visited The Silk Market, which is a huge shopping center that you can buy any and everything at! \u00a0You need luggage? They got it! You need designer(fake) bags? They got it! You need clothes? They got it! And the best part about the market is you get to haggle prices with them. \u00a0I had to buy some luggage to bring my gifts home in, and the woman started at 1800RMB, and ended up selling it to me for 200RMB. \u00a0That is quiet a mark down I’d say.<\/p>\n

Today, we spent the day at the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and the Summer Palace. \u00a0These places were more official sites. \u00a0The Forbidden City was huge and went on for blocks! \u00a0This is where the Emperor once lived and all 3,000 of his concubines. Maybe that will give you an idea just how big this palace is. \u00a0We had a great tour guide, Duncan, who showed us around the courts and gardens throughout the day. \u00a0 At the end of the day, Duncan had a fabulous meal featuring Roasted Peking Duck. \u00a0The duck was delicious, way better than just the duck’s blood I tried last weekend! \u00a0Like I said, leaving will be so bittersweet! I have loved exploring China!<\/p>\n

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Me at the Summer Palace!<\/p><\/div>\n

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UNA at Tiananmen Square!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well today was our last night in China. \u00a0Leaving tomorrow will be very bittersweet, because I am so ready to see AMERICA and my family, friends, food, and sweet puppy, but I have enjoyed soaking in the culture and learning so many new things! The past two days might have been my favorites, aside from our performance night, because of the places we visited. \u00a0Yesterday, we visited one of the Seven Wonders of the World, The Great Wall. I was so excited to climb it. \u00a0I was amazed by the beautiful landscape that surrounded the wall that stretches for over … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2013\/06\/China-052.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}