Posts Tagged 'Tiananmen Square'

Salty Dogging in China

We’ve been back stateside for nearly a month now and the repatriation process seems to be going well. We’re still in the process of figuring out what we’ll be doing next and where exactly we’ll be doing it. In the meantime, we’re getting some more perspective on our time and experiences in China. While we’re not yet at a point to put our truly profound and well-reflected-upon thoughts into articulately worded blog posts, we can entertain you with dance!

This video was shot over the course of our whole stay in Beijing, the first bit of which was for our newlywed friends, the Hoffmans. The Salty Dog Rag is a Dartmouth Outing Club tradition and Steph and I taught this frisky foxtrot to hundreds of incoming freshmen during the preorientation camping trips program. Interestingly, the native Beijingers and Dartmouth prefrosh had very similar looks on their faces when we first busted out our moves.

To market and Square

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Venturing farther from our home this week, we traversed Beijing’s sprawling subway system to Tiananmen Square to say hi to Mao’s gigantic portrait and explore the bustling nearby Donghuamen Night Market. The Spring Festival celebrating the new year is winding down but the market was still packed.

We haggled with vendors by punching in offers and counter-offers into a four-function calculator. I’m not sure what “a good price” for a panda hat is but I managed to knock a couple of Yuan off the initial asking price.



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