I went to China over spring vacation with the choir. It was very fun. I'm too lazy to type up everything we did. Basically we sang at 2 formal concerts (which were both packed) and had one informal concert with another university choir. We ate a lot of food, went to a pearl factory (where they grow, harvest, and prepare pearls for sale), a silk ... factory (for lack of a better word), and a jade "factory." I don't know what to call those places. We did a lot of shopping. We also visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden Palace (which unfortunately doesn't have that long flight of stairs like in the movie Mulan. That really bummed me out), and t