{"id":977,"date":"2018-08-21T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=977"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T21:05:31","slug":"hba-week-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2018\/hba-week-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HBA Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was already the eighth week. I was starting to think I should take advantage of the remaining two weeks to explore the city more. This week we wouldn\u2019t be having Friday activities, as well as Saturday trips. So I was planning to go out with some friends to the National Museum as well as the National Art Museum. I actually really enjoyed both trips. Both were close to Tian\u2019anmen so the subway there was very convenient. The National Museum was very pretty, I guess because it was a big tourist attraction so it was very well organized and beautifully designed. The Art Museum actually contains very modern\/realistic art works. They fitted more with my artistic style so I really enjoyed the visit. We also went to Wangfujing in the nearby area.<\/p>\n<p>This week in class, we discussed very global\/controversial issues such as the issues of war refugees, cultural differences. On Friday the teachers organized a small Model UN for us to discuss the issues of war refugees in Syria. We also had the Beijing Night on August 3rd. I was one of the MCs, and we had 1min 30 sec dance performance before the show, so we had to pratice a lot, along with memorizing the MC long dialogues I remembered being super busy, taking a 30min nap and then rushing over to the dance practice, but it was definitely worth it! The show was a complete success, I was happy with my MC performance, and also spent a lot of time taking pictures with the teachers and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was already the eighth week. I was starting to think I should take advantage of the remaining two weeks to explore the city more. This week we wouldn\u2019t be having Friday activities, as well as Saturday trips. So I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2018\/hba-week-8-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}