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It is hard to believe that the trip is almost over! We leave tomorrow for a LONG day of traveling back to the US.
It has been a very fruitful and wonderful trip!

Just a quick update to share some exciting news:

The monsoon rains have come and some of us were dancing in the streets :-)

We have also completed our service work at the hospital here in Jhansi completing a mural, painting walls in the nursing school, pruning and inventory work. We even made the local news with our projects -- I would forward it, but alas it is in Hindi :-)

Greetings fom Jhanci,

The train ride went well, with less trouble than getting the baggage onto the train than in Delhi - I think they're becoming experts! :-) We also found debarking much easier as Jhanci was a lot less crowded than Agra. We were met at the train station by members of the hospital staff which was a pleasant surprise.

Though our trip to Chi-Ping highschool, and our homestay with local students was extremely memorable, I don't think I will ever forget my visit to the Great Wall of China today.

We went to visit a local high school called Chi Ping High School in Shandong province, which is about 4 hours by train from Beijing. We received an exceedingly welcome from the students, the teachers and the parents there. Please take a look at our group members' journals about this fantastic experience below.

马立晗：
你们好！我叫马立晗。前天我们去了茌平，我的同学都住在当地家庭里，可是我生病了，我不能去，可是我第二天早上见到了我的妈妈，我和我的哥哥杨泽坤也相处得非常愉快。我很喜欢你们！现在我回到了北京，今天我们要去长城。

韩海墨：
我很喜欢茌平。我的新朋友们非常友好。他们给了我们一个最好的欢迎活动。每个人都太好了，让我觉得很高兴，也很开心！我住的家庭太好客了。他们的英语很好。他们让我觉得非常舒服。认识你们很高兴！

The prayers are starting to work -- we got sprinkles this evening -- so keep coming so that the full monsoon rains may come!

Namaste!
Greetings from Agra. We have finished our time in Delhi and took a wonderful train ride to Agra this morning.
We are all currently enjoying a fabulous hotel with all the ammenties including the much anticipated pool. We're relaxing for awhile this morning and once it cools down in the afternoon, we'll head to one of the seven wonders: the Taj Mahal! Needless to say, everyone is quite excited!

Hello there,

We just got back from eating dumplings. Most of them had egg. They were pretty yummy. Ko likes fried dumplings best, but these were boiled. Morgan likes both, but not egg so much or meat. We were excited because we got to explore the outside of our hotel, which we hadn't done before today. We traveled the long and winding road, aka 50ish feet (that took us way too long to calculate), that led to the dumpling restaurant, which was right outside our hotel.

【Diana posted this on Jade's account】

大家好，

Hello,

Hope you have read our students' blog about their first three-day experience in Beijing. Except of our regular language and culture classes, we have visited several amazing spots in Beijing including Lama Tempel, the Temple of Heaven and Quan Ju De restaurant. I want to add some materials to help you know more about the wonderful places we have visited.

Lama Tempel