{"id":2604,"date":"2014-04-16T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2014-04-16T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T10:52:10","slug":"from-midterms-to-vacations-off-to-guilin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"From Midterms to Vacations: Off to Guilin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I have been thoroughly preparing for my Chinese midterm.\u00a0 We have already learned an entire text book so I was reviewing everyday for hours (hence me lacking on this blog).\u00a0 However, all my studying paid off and I found out today that I received a 95% on my midterm.\u00a0 Hours after my midterm, I jumped on a plane and went to Guilin for our long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Guilin is considered one of the most beautiful places in China and boy am I glad I visited!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/04\/dscf3193.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2611\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3193.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city is very small but fixed in between all the beautiful green mountains.\u00a0 It was hot, humid, and gorgeous!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/04\/dscf3210.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2616\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3210.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went with 3 other classmates and together we hiked, went into caves, and explored every inch of the city!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/04\/dscf3227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2621\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3227.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the city is so small we were able to explore every &#8220;tourist trap&#8221; there was and more!\u00a0 Above is the Sun and Moon pagoda.\u00a0 Luckily, we visited it at dusk so we saw the before and after!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/04\/dscf3236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2624\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf3236.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guilin is most famous for its terraced rice fields.\u00a0 This was an all day adventure and requires it&#8217;s very own blog post because of how awesome it was!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I have been thoroughly preparing for my Chinese midterm.\u00a0 We have already learned an entire text book so I was reviewing everyday for hours (hence me lacking on this blog).\u00a0 However, all my studying paid off and I found out today that I received a 95% on my midterm.\u00a0 Hours after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}