Sakai Day in China: HuaZhong Normal University

On Saturday, March 1st, HuaZhong Normal University (also known as Central China Normal University) hosted the first official Sakai Day in China. HuaZhong is located Wuhan, a city of about 10 million people that is located about 1000 km south of Beijing and is the capital of Hubei province. If you have a stereotype of [...]

Beijing Visit, Day 2

The second day in Beijing (Thursday February 28th) we visited Beijing University (also called Peking University and not to be confused with Beijing Normal University) in the morning and Beijing University of Post and Telecom (BUPT) in the afternoon.
Peking Univeristy was founded in 1898 and has about 30,000 students, equally divided between graduate students and [...]

Beijing Visit, Day 1

After a long and tedious set of taxi rides and flights and security lines (24 hours end-to-end from Wuhan to Barcelona) I’m writing this entry on possibly the most beautiful train ride I’ve ever taken, from Barcelona to Valencia. It’s along the Mediterranean coast with views of the sea and many beautiful beaches to the [...]