On Thursday we awoke to the unfortunate presence of rain. Regardless, we traveled to one of the most beautiful places in the world: the Summer Palace. This palace has a long history, but is mostly well known as the summer home of the Empress. Honestly, I am kind of glad that we had rain. The palace was still beautiful and there was way less of a crowd.
One of the more interesting aspects of the site is the world's largest corridor. This is beautiful, as each pillar and rafter has a unique mural of everything from the country side to scenes of Chinese history.
Along with the corridor, the palace is dotted with beautiful ponds full of lotus blossoms and willow trees.
The crowning part of the palace, however, is the marble boat that one of the empresses built. It doesn't float (of course) but it is truly an interesting spectacle.
After this we went to lunch and then to a pearl factory where we learned how pearls are harvested and how to tell fakes from real ones. Many of us bought some lovely jewelry.
We then went to Capital Normal University - Conservatory of Music for a workshop with Mrs. Li Meizhu. Just like the day before we were all extremely lucky to work with this brilliant woman. She truly taught us so much in such a short period.
After that we had an extremely well received concert. The audience was fantastic and everyone played beautifully.
We then went home and crashed again.
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