Today was going to be our last day in Beijing. We visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven, so it was certainly a packed day. Walking through Tiananmen Square was the weirdest feeling because we all know what happened there, but almost no one in China knows about it. I remember…

Today, unfortunately, was going to be our last day in China. That was such a bittersweet thing to think about while eating breakfast because I had so much fun in China, and I’ve made a lot of new friends that I would have to say goodbye to for the summer, and I learned so much;…

Today was Day 11, and that means it’s almost time for us to go home which is pretty bittersweet to think about. Today we were going to be visiting Yang Shan Port which handles a very large amount of China’s sea shipping. I had a rough night the night before, so I slept basically the…

Day 10 was going to be our second full day in Shanghai, and it was a packed one because we had two company visits planned. The first visit was the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and the second was going to be Horiba which is an engineering and research and development firm. After the typical…

Day 8 was our travel day to Shanghai. We traveled by bullet train and it took us about 5 hours to get there. We arrived around 2 or 3, I can’t really remember. After getting there, we settled into our hotel. This was by far the best hotel of the trip and arguably one of…

Day 7 started just like every other day before it; I woke up, got a shower, and ate a huge breakfast. Today we were going to be seeing the Terracotta Warriors and biking on the Xi’an city walls. I was really excited for today because I’ve heard that the Terracotta Warriors were absolutely insane! We…

Day 6 was our first day in Xi’an! I didn’t write a post for day 5 because it was basically just a travel day. On day 5, we took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi’an and it took us about 6 hours to get there. That was a way longer travel time than I…

Day 3 started like any other day. I woke up around 7:00, got a shower, and went down to get some breakfast. Breakfast is always fantastic, by the way. Today we were going to be going on our first company visits of the trip and everyone was especially excited because we were going to be…

After going to the Great Wall and Summer Palace the day before, I was pretty much beat and fell asleep around 10 that night, so I woke up after about 8 and half hours of sleep ready to take on the day. Today we were going to visit the Central University of Finance and Economics…

First off, I would like to point out that jet lag is real. I woke up several times during the night thinking that it was the morning, but it wasn’t even 6 o’clock. Nonetheless, I woke up at 6:45 feeling really refreshed and ready to take on the day! The breakfast that our hotel provided…

Ni Hao everyone! My name is Jon Nemtuda. I’m currently a finance major at the University of Pittsburgh and I will be traveling to China for the Plus 3 program! I grew up in York, Pennsylvania … so basically in the middle of nowhere. Growing up in such a suburban/rural area of the country, I…