Yangshuo China Week!
Overnight Train to Guilin Good morning/afternoon/evening to the UWC community, my family, and friends! If you weren't able to talk to me on Facebook during last week, that was because I was in China! Li Po Chun UWC (my school) has a China Week event that happens every year to all of the incoming first years like me. For my China Week group, we went to the small tourist town of Yangshuo, in Guilin. Here is the reflection I made about it. The trip to Yangshuo started with train rides. We started our travels riding the MTR, which we use almost everyday. Everyone had nothing to talk about, really. Crossing the border at Shenzhen was a bit more exciting, since we were technically venturing into a communist country (and most of us have never been in one before). We started talking more at this point because our first glimpse of China was not of rolling hills and villages like we expected in Yangshuo, but tall, towering skyscrapers and bustling streets. From there, we took th...