Summer 2012 Trip:
During the summer of 2012, I worked for an organization called Global Leadership Adventures. I spent 7 weeks in China, mostly based in and around Beijing. I was leading groups of English speaking high school students who were visiting China to learn about the country’s unique history, experience the culture, do some service learning, and learn the language Mandarin. The posts below are organized chronologically and the titles tell about the theme of each post. Click around and experience the journey alongside me!
- Loki on the Great Wall?
- Getting into the Beijing Spirit
- Quiet Beijing
- Larger than Life: Peking Opera
- Yuck or Yum?
- The Students Arrive!
- Colors of the Hutong
- Hou Hai Paddling & Pinyin
- Intelligent Spirit Touched by Balloons
- Chinese Time
- The Center of the Middle
- Club Time at Temple of Heaven
- Greatest Wall of All
- Over a Billion Going Places
- Community “Service”
- Wo ming tian qu Shang hai
- City of Lights
- Mr. Banaszewski’s Invitation
- Above and Below Ground
- Kids Born with Hardship
- Service That is Fun and Useful
- Lost in Translation
- Going Solo
- Acrobatics and Circus Arts
- Mao Mao Mao
- Washing in Beijing
- Mahjonging Together
- Toilet Talk
- Water Cube to London
- A Nation of Nations
- The Art of Paper and Pen
- Little Critters
- Presentation is everything
- Faces of Beijing
- The Jewel in the Lotus
- Vote in our Contest!
- Easy as ABC
- Who’s Dating Who in China?
- Perspectives
- Why don’t we do that too?
- Thank You
- Reflecting 100 Times Over
- Beijing to Boston
- (I Miss) Bizarre Flavor Combos
2013 Trip of Melissa Kapeckas:
Mrs. Kapeckas, Innovation Academy’s Middle School Principal, participated in an administrator exchange in China during the spring of 2013. She visited a school in Handan and several other very special places, and an administrator from her partner school visited IACS the following fall. Here are her blog entries:
- And We’re Off!
- Contrasts in Xi’an
- Chinese History Lesson #1: Xi’an City Wall
- Chinese History Lesson #2: Terracotta Warriors
- Extraordinary Days
- Tiananmen and Forbidden City
- Changing Times in Education
- Courtesies and Discourtesies
- Flag-Raising Ceremony
- The Students of Handan No. 31 Middle School
- Teachers of Handan #31
- Successes and Challenges for Handan No. 31 Middle School
- Coming Home
Innovation on Earth 
i cant believe that you actually go on all these trips.Its so cool!!
I would love to see The Great China Wall in person! It would be so cool! Would love to do what you did!
really cool!
justin r
i would love to go to china i would love to see great to wall of china.It also be very exciten to see a new culture.
what do they eat in china. what is it like in beijing
Hi Ella,
Click on one of the blog entries on the list! There are a bunch of blog entries about food in China, and also entries about the city of Beijing.
Ms. Krakauer
i wanna go to china -_-