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In addition to our language classes, we’ve taken trips to other universities where we are given different tasks and are told to complete them by asking the locals. To celebrate the amazing weather on Thursday, we took off to Qinghua University, a school renowned for its academic excellence. While there, we were told to find the library, learn the population of the school, and meet at a lake. Finding that library might have been the most difficult part of the entire trip thus far! We asked almost twenty people in Mandarin, so there was no language confusion, and almost each one pointed in a different direction. After searching and searching, we finally came to the library, which is located so deep in the campus that the people there didn’t even look like students anymore! The security guard inside was very helpful though, and he informed us that the university’s population is 30,000 and easily directed us to the lake. After meeting up with the teachers, we explored more of Qinghua’s beautiful campus and returned to our own campus after an exhilarating and exhausting day.