On past trips, students never went to possible the most iconic place in Xiamen - 鼓浪屿 (Gǔ Làng Yǔ), an island only 3 minutes by ferry from the south-western shore of Xiamen Island. This was mainly because they assumed homestay families would take them. Gu Lang Yu is known as being the piano island, because it has a history of producing many Chinese piano prodigies and is home of the famous organ museum. The chaperones thought that after three weeks of hard work we deserved a nice, cooler-than-usual night outside of the university campus. So last night we went to Gu Lang Yu and all of the tutors and teachers came with us, so we had a lot of fun and got a chance to see Xiamen's skyline from over the water. We were allowed to wander the island with Cai Laoshi, our group's chaperone, but still forbidden from going in the water. We think Cai Laoshi is like a teenager - she is always on her phone (sometimes for NSLI-related things) and she always wants to go shopping with the group so SHE can go buy additions to her wardrobe. Navigating the island was an adventure, but it was fun nevertheless. There were shops everywhere, and it was a little packed with all of the tourists visiting the beach area. We saw the old German and English embassy - it was interesting to see the European influence in the architecture in certain areas of the island. We got back late at night, and everyone was exhausted from hiking all over Gu Lang Yu, and I think we all slept well because people were surprisingly awake today during class.
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