Welcome!

大家好！Hello everyone,

Welcome to my summer blog. Here I will be posting stories and pictures from my summer in China. Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Richard U. Light Fellowship, I will be able to spend the bulk of my summer studying Chinese through the Duke Study in China program (which will be hosted by the Capital Normal University in Beijing)!

The URL for my blog is http://zaibj.blogspot.com (zai is the pinyin for the chinese word 在, referring to where someone or something is located, bj is short for beijing, therefore this summer, I will be zaibj - a perfect blend of chinglish to start off this blog)

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Here's a look at my itinerary:

6/6 - fly from Chicago O'Hare to Tokyo Narita, transfer planes on route to Hong Kong International Airport

6/7 - 6/10 - Hong Kong: staying with bulldogs & traveling Hong Kong & Macao

6/10 - 6/14 - take bus/ferry to Shenzhen, fly to Nanjing, visit family in Changzhou and Yalies in Shanghai

6/14 - take the overnight train from Shanghai to Beijing (anybody want to ride w/ me?)

6/15 - 8/12 - studying Chinese in Beijing! i'll be staying at Capital Normal University (北京首都师范大学） (please do visit!)

8/12 - 8/18 - traveling China (anybody wanna come with?)!

8/18 - fly from Shanghai Pudong back to Chicago O'Hare