China's a day away

China winter getaway is a day away, and i'm pretty excited about it all. Mostly because it's going to be my first snow experience. And also because i'm spending it with the majority of my chem pals!

We'll be landing in Beijing on the afternoon of 10th and will settle in a 宾馆 (i think it's something less classy than a hotel) which is quite near beijing university and tsing hua university. A week of Beijing will see us having fun at Tiananmen square, forbidden city, tsinghua university, peking university, the great wall, beijing normal university and of course the shopping malls and yummy places.

On the 16th, we'll be leaving Beijing for Tianjin to visit Nankai university, Tianjin normal university and Tianjin university. After a night in Tianjin, we'll head to Dalian on the 17th to see Dalian university of Science and tech, and the institute of chemical physics, before heading to Changchun on the 19th.

Chang chun will be a freezing -20 degrees celcius!!!! And it's just next to haerbin!!! woo goodness. Anyway, we'll hopefully have a ski trip followed by visits to Changchun institute of applied chemistry and Jinlin University. On the 23rd, we'll head back to Beijing and visit the summer palace, Beijing Institute of Chemsitry, its industries, temple of heaven and some free and easy time. We'll return on the 30th of december, just in time for the new year :)

Wee.. sounds really fun. Lots of chemistry. and chinese. and snow (hopefully). Praying for God to make it a meaningful and blessed time.. that He'll grant me a heart than sincerely desires to be his disciple (Matthew 28: 18-20).

the old chinese man within

Can't wait for another china experience - trains bursting at its seams.. old women munching on broken peanuts.. old men playing with smoke dragons.. and me enjoying my time with friends.