This weekend will be the last weekend of my trip to China. Our group will be visiting Beijing city. While in Beijing we of course went to the Great Wall of China. We also went to see a Chinese opera. At Nankai University (where I lived and attended class) our group had an opera class. Of course, this class taught us about Chinese opera; however, even though I had Chinese opera class, I was still surprised about the way the opera was performed. The opera I watched was much shorter than I expected. In addition, this opera had very little dialogue and lots of aerobics; also the plot was difficult to follow.

The people who ran the opera house decided to perform the opera this way, however I would have preferred more dialogue and plot development.
Visiting the Great Wall of China was also very interesting. The wall was also nothing like I thought it would be. The height at some parts seemed to be only about 20 feet. The wall was long, however it was short in height.

This picture can show you how narrow the wall actually was. Before I came to visit, I was expecting the wall to be much wider and taller. However, as you can see it’s not that wide. Even though the wall was not what I was expecting, visiting it still was very interesting and fun. The best part was viewing the scenery while walking on the wall. The area we went to was up in the mountains; as a result, when walking on the wall a person can see quite a long ways, and also can have a great view of the sceneries.
After our trip we spent one more night in China and then Monday we all went our separate ways. This trip taught me a lot about the history of China, and the history of China has taught me a lot about the culture of China. My teacher has ordered us all to write a 5 page essay on this very topic, the topic of what did we learn on this trip.