World Civilizations: China

World Civilizations: China 002

October 11, 2010

China Week

During China week I attended two events, Opportunities to Study or Teach in China and the Traditional Chinese Dumpling Party. Theses event were a lot more interesting than I thought. After attending them I had wish I had went to more, but I found myself not having time to go. I wish they would have some event on the weekend. I had a lot of fun and leaned a little bit at these events and am going to go to more next year.

The Opportunities to Study and Teach in China event was on a Wednesday, it started at 9:55am and ended at 10:45am. Dr. David Ayers, the head director of the international programs, was speaking at this event. He was describing to us the trip they take every year to China for 3 weeks and South Korea for 1 week. He used a power point presentation and had pictures of all the cities that they attended on the trip. He had pictures of the Great Wall of China, the Iron Pagoda, and some of the rivers. He also told us some facts about China, like china has 20% of the world’s population and told us about the opium trades between Great Britain. After this he told us about opportunities to teach over in China at Henan University and Siam University. He just pretty much told us you that you need at least a bachelor’s degree, and told us about how to apply and the application process.

Listening to Dr. Ayers, it reminded me off the things that we have discussed in class, like the Great Wall, the Iron Pagoda, and the opium trades. It also reminded me of when the student speaker came into our class to talk about her trip to China over the summer. It was really exciting to get to see more pictures of the stuff we talked about in class. I think going on a trip to China over the summer would be good time.

The second event I went to was the Traditional Chinese Dumpling party, which was on Friday. It started at 6:30pm and ended at 8:30pm. This was my favorite event that I attended, because I think I...