“October 15, 2013

Our week coming back from vacation did have an interesting start, with a typhoon. Luckily our group was safe, but other places in town had some serious flooding and many people were without power.

Professor Lin took our group out to Wai Po Jia (Grandma’s Place), which is a popular restaurant in Hangzhou. The food was delicious and we got to hear about everyone’s trips everywhere from Kashgar to Hong Kong to almost Nanjing. Everyone was very excited from their trips and really seemed to have a good time.

The week went by normally, we had to get back into our daily class routine many of us had tests or quizzes this week. And then this Friday we got to get together with the students we will be working with for our recycling program at Jianxing Honor College of Zhejiang University of Technology. These students are in the Honors College at their school and had to be interviewed in order to take part in this project. They had put up a huge banner for the starting of the project. They had put out fruit and coffee for us. They had even put up balloons! Professor Lin spoke in Chinese and English to the group about how excited we are to work together. We were supposed to come up with ideas of how to implement a survey of Chinese students. From there we are supposed to compare the recycling processes on Chinese and American campuses and finally come up with recommendations for future action on recycling. ” -Margaret