Yesterday afternoon, 4 of us exchange students were interviewed by PKU’s radio station. Ironically, the interviewer herself was a Korean student. And so we have it: Korean, Austrian, Australian, Singaporean and Malaysian.
Shall post up the interview clip link once it’s available. ;)
河北春游！
The SSA (Singapore Students Association) organised a trip to 保定 in Hebei Province today for their annual Spring Tour. I woke up at 05 15!!!
The coach journey was about 2 hours, and most of us were either drifting in and out of our sleep or having biscuits for breakfast. ZzZzz…
清西陵
Actually, the prominent Qing dynasty rulers: 慈僖、康熙 and 乾隆 were all buried at 清东陵. Why didn’t we visit that... Ruyin, the SSA treasurer, told me that the exco picked up a guidebook, flipped it open randomly and pointed out 清西陵. Heh, was she joking…
A total of 76 members of the Qing Imperial family were buried here at 清西陵, but we only visited 泰陵, which is Emperor Yong Zheng’s tomb.
Look closely: The narrow white path in the middle appears to be lower, but the entire ground is really flat!
The slope that I’m standing on was actually built so steeply that people who came to pay their respect to the Emperor were forced to bend forward in a worshipping manner when climbing.
Having just watched all six episodes of BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, this smug-looking camel immediately brought Mr. Darcy to mind.
Sadly, this 神路 is incomparable to the one I saw at Xian last year.
By the famous 易水河: 当年燕太子丹在易水河边送别荆轲去刺秦王，给后人留下了"风萧萧兮易水寒，壮士一去兮不复还"的慷慨悲壮诗句
At lunch, we had enough food to feed more than twice the number of people present! Each table had 5 cold dishes, 9 hot dishes, and 1 soup.
After lunch, we visited 直隶总督府.
I thought this punishment was brutal…
Until I saw this: Slicing pieces off the body till the criminal bleeds to death. Yikes.
Okieee....on a lighter note, Spring = flowers!
Some other foreigners joined us for the Spring Tour. Here, a lovely Taiwanese-and-Korean couple.
Maybe it was waking up too early, maybe it was the long bus trips, or maybe the places we visited were not suited to my interests…I honestly didn’t enjoy this trip as much as I’d have liked to. Pity… But hey, one more province down! ;)
Thank God for journey mercy to and fro. =)
gRacE
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