Today consisted of mainly two things: more tremendous food and a lot of listening to presentations.
Again, we did the Beijing Bistro for breakfast (although an abbreviated version, since we had to hurry to dress). The morning consisted of listening to presentations about the US-China relationship in terms of politics and economics. The afternoon was more useful to me, personally, because we learned a lot more about Fulbright policies and got to hear from both Chinese Fulbright professors and Chinese students about their experiences. It was particularly interesting to hear the students' opinions on American professors!
The lunch was yet ANOTHER dim sum type of buffet--all sorts of different things. We are really developing a taste for crispy duck, in particular. They also really seem like shrimp a lot over here. Also, they had excellent mushrooms and greens: I have a feeling that we're going to be getting a lot of vegetables over here!
For dinner, we had a bus take us to a Chinese cooking class, in this little hole-in-the-wall place in an alley, of all places. The master chef showed us how to make dumplings. I was disastrous at it, of course, but I did manage to produce a few good ones.
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