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Category: China
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Women of Agora – A Senior Project
Hi all, Hannah, Blair, and I are seniors at Christchurch School. For our integrated senior project, we are working to give back to people who have become like family – the rural Himalayan community of Agora. We want to bring light to the lives of the women in the village. The three of us will…
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Group Reflection
In China money is power. There is a clear dichotomy between the upper class and the lower class. Some people are fighting to feed their families while others are spending money as if it’s nothing to them. On the second to last day we went to a shop that sold t-shirts for over 200$ while…
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A Good Day
By Laura Bowden Today was one of the rare days we didn’t wake up early. Not only that, but we also waited an extra hour before going on the hour long subway ride to Peking University. It was miracle we were even allowed to go on campus – all due to a stranger’s kindness. Dr.…
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A Rare View
By Claude Owen Today was an eventful and tiring day. We started off the day with breakfast from a street vendor that was some of the most delicious food I have had so far on this trip. It had some sort of salty sauce spread over an egg and some peppers wrapped up in a…
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Normalcy, a Square and Governance
By Holden White & Moammar AlHammad Today we visited the second largest square in the world, Tiananmen square, and we saw and learned a lot there. One of the things that we learned is that Mao was the first leader of the People’s Republic of China but was not the first person who created the communist party.…
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Back in Beijing – More Photographs
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Incense and Smoke
By Laura Bowden Today we woke up early for breakfast to eat with Paul’s sister and mother. It was good, as usual, but strange, I never thought I’d eat seaweed salad for breakfast. Then we left for Paul’s uncles only an hour or so away. The temple was in the middle of a poorer county…
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More Photographs!
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Action or Awareness
By Claude Owen Today we woke up at Paul’s childhood home. For breakfast we visited a Chinese morning market, and ate from a street vendor. In the market, there were hundreds of people sitting on chair with things ranging from live fish to chickens to peanuts to radishes out in front of them, all yelling…
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Alive and Optimistic
On our 6th day in China we started off another day at Paul’s factory. At the factory we got to enjoy pretty much a feast for breakfast. After that we headed to a meet a provincial official that Paul’s mother is friends with. He then took us to a museum where we learned about Buddhism,…
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Hospitality – A Generational Thing
The group has spent the last few days visiting Hongming “Paul” Chen’s mother’s tire factory and his ancestral home (Jinzhou). At each stop, gracious hosts have helped create memorable experiences and provided a rare window into life for factory workers, generations of Hongming’s family, and the average Chinese citizen. It is hard to explain how valuable…
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Curiosity, a Tire Factory
By Holden White (白河灯) I am sitting here at 10:30 PM right now, looking out the window to Paul’s Mom’s tire factory, and I still see people working. These workers will work almost all night with the rubber. Early today we had a tour of the factory from the Head of Technology. We got to see everything that…
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Perspective; a Great Wall
By Laura Bowden Today started much earlier than I would have liked, waking up only a little past six and heading across the city to Shaohan’s house, which is much larger than the 17th floor apartment that I’ve gotten used to. We then traveled a few hours outside of the city, watching as the sky…
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Exploring Ancient Beijing
By Moammar Alhammad In todays trip, we travelled through the subway to visit a side of China that is very important to the people of China and the rest of the world. Containing approximately 9 thousand rooms, The Forbidden City is one of the most visited places in the world. 14 million people a year…
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Some Photographs