our room at the Swissotel in Beijing
oversized twin beds were pretty comfy
hotel room - hotel service was fantastic
view from our window at Swissotel...note smog in air and inability to see the sun
more hotel view (this was worst air quality day)
hotel lobby
hotel art
overhead view of lounge right off of lobby
sculpture in hotel lobby
lobby with lounge to right
lobby had several sculptures and artwork
Our in-country briefing on first full day of nursing conference
“In honor of Nurses Day (5/12), Healthy People.....”
opening ceremony of US-China Nursing Forum
opening ceremony participants (note headsets in order to hear translation)
Qi Yi (pronounced Chee Yee) speaking and Li Xiuhua at podium (Pres of Chinese Nurses Assoc)
coffee break
they fed us like crazy...watermelon at every meal
flurry of activity during the coffee breaks with lots of socializing
tourist know it as the Pearl Market for shopping!
basically an indoor, 5-story upscale flea market
notice the flag at half-staff for 3-day period of mourning for earthquake victims
Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, delegation leader, and Qi Yi (AKA Patrick) during the leadership section
Wu Xinjuan, Patrick, and Nancy during Q&A
Susan, Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, and Lisa Hansen
Lisa, Wu Xinjuan, and Susan
warrior garb (all stitching handmade)
marble & glass staircase leading to 2nd floor (photo doesn't do it justice)
Lisa, Wang Yang, Susan, and Bian Guobin (Chinese nurses)
closing ceremony & banquet at end of conference
dinner with new friends
Kerry and Brian Sully from Louisiana
Soup chef who made noodles right in front of you - awesome
his noodles were ready in seconds and tasted great in the soup (kind of like hot and sour soup)
artwork
lots of planting in Beijing (note bus window glare at top of photo)
a light morning for traffic (slight bus window glare on photo)
many newly built buildings
interesting building!
hotel in Beijing - red is color of good luck and it is everywhere
the country has definitely opened up to the world
one of many new buildings
Hutongs are old neighborhoods that Beijing is saving from gentrification
Need a sports car? Beijing has lots of them.
flags outside Regent Hotel (notice dragon face on two flags)
Peking Union Medical Center Hospital sees thousands of people every day (front entrance)
KFCs were popular
Nike swoosh
the more characters on roof the better protected and more important you were
bicycles were everywhere
Peking Union Medical College Hospital (old entrance)
our first site visit
Wu Xinjuan (Director of Nursing), Nancy and Patrick
old entrance to hospital
it took me 5 tries to get this photo of the PowerPoint slide due to rotating letters, etc
we had a briefing about the hospital by Ms. Wu Xinjuan and Patrick interpreted
a nursing supervisor and nursing instructor (angled stripe)
one of the hospital nurses who works on a medical floor
remembering the SARS outbreak and the “white angels” who cared for the sick
celebrating the successful treatment of SARS
note that after expansion of the hospital there will be 2000 beds & 30 OR suites
photo of a 2006 nursing school graduation ceremony
desk in the hospital museum section
museum section
wall poster advising patients how not to fall in the hospital
we toured the CCU at the hospital
not so modern defibrillator with a modern hospital bed in background
EKG machine on left and modern IABP on right
we toured the VIP unit at the hospital (tourists, wealthy persons, and others would stay here)
the nurses were very glad to have us visit their hospital
roof overhang at our entrance to hospital
Lisa Hansen
People to People is the organization that we traveled with to China
Susan, Patrick, and Lisa (Patrick was awesome national guide)
saying our goodbyes to the PUMC staff
gifts for the nurses
the leadership group at the hospital
guard at PUMC (he happily agreed to photo and then ran inside)
this is where we entered the hospital
roof of hospital on the west wing
bicycle power
the Chinese are very excited to host the Olympics
they are everywhere in the world, but we didn't eat there
lots of window unit air conditioners rather than central air
a hutong is behind the wall
entrance to hutong neighborhood
hutongs were narrow alleys and quadrangle buildings (usually facing south for better lighting)
hutongs are mainly found in Beijing
hutongs are old Beijing in the modern city
interesting building
artwork in front of building
interesting plantings brighten a smog-filled sky
six construction cranes in this one view (construction contributes to poor air quality)
lots of the buildings look exactly the same when finished
gardens and roses line the highways
pedestrian bridge below the motorway
moat around the old city of Beijing (city now extends beyond it)
picturesque moat around old city of Beijing
pretty flowers and an interesting antennae
roses were everywhere and grew well
one of the Forbidden City gates (I think)
helipads??
interesting sculpture at entrance to something
orange pay phones were everywhere
lots of construction with lots of manual labor
beautiful old buildings
Capital Medical University (we visited the School of Nursing)
roundtable discussion with school of nursing dean and faculty
Nancy & Ying Wu, SON dean (she lived in USA for 5 yrs so her English was great)
dean and faculty
snacks (little round green things are lychees - very good fruit!!)
light fixture in meeting room (I liked it)
these are all at CMU
nurses are also taught at the affiliated hospitals giving them huge enrollment numbers
CMU is blue star, affilitated hospitals are red stars (spread out over Beijing)
number of graduates per year (the PhD program is in its infancy)
nursing research areas
eastern squat toilet (paper in basket, step on floor button to flush)
architectural map of CMU - and they want to expand
same photo - better lighting
library at CMU with over 1million titles
CMU library
more roses outside of library
teaching models with only half a head saves on latex (you thought I cut it off with the photo right?)
nerve simulation model
SIM pregnant woman model capable of “delivering” a baby
baby being delivered
models of babies in SIM lab
Greek-looking sculptures on building
restaurant entrance
Nancy awaiting our lunch
bamboo trained with string to grow this way
Qin Yue Gong restaurant for our lunch
the lunch is just getting started (lazy Susan will be completely full at end)
lake behind restaurant
our restaurant at lunch
the restaurant is ornate
outside theater for Legend of Kung Fu martial art show
red is for good luck
inside of theater
boy beating small “fish drum” as we enter theater (integral to the show)
Ming Dynasty City Wall Relics Park
more of the park which covers 17 acres (Central Park is 843 acres)
painting the outside of the hospital (sky is blue today)
large wooden structure outside British Columbia Canadian Pavilion
part of Forbidden City (I think)
Tian'anmen gate (technically not part of Forbidden City)
Tian'anmen Square (we couldn't go in due to prep for visit from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev)
Susan at entrance to Forbidden City (southern end of square)
Lisa at the Forbidden City
Forbidden City (AKA Palace Museum) was imperial palace during Ming & Qing dynasties
government building at Forbidden City
Tian'anmen Square
momument at Tian'anmen Square
countdown to Olympics
government building
getting ready for new Russian presidential visit
security guard at the Tiananmen Square
Chinese and Russian flags ready for the presidential visit
Chairman Mao's really large photo
looking back towards Tiananmen gate
across the street from Tiananmen Square
lots of cameras at the square
Forbidden City is 178 acres
moat surrounding the palace (6 meters deep, 52 meters wide)
11 animals protecting the Hall of Supreme Harmony (and served as lightning rods for wooden roof)
yellow is color of royal family so roof tiles, etc are yellow
the woman in the foreground got engaged on our trip
Lisa in one of the squares
check out his ponytail
this door has 8 rows of 8 bolts
modern name for the Forbidden City
there are 9,999 buildings in complex (10,000 buildings believed to be in heaven)
Patrick gathering the group again
buildings had intricate artwork & colors all have meanings
square in front of emperor's residence (Hall of Supreme Harmony) holds 100,000 people
artillery
bow and arrows (each was about 3-4 feet long)
members of our group & a man from Guyana
artifacts from Forbidden City
large cauldrons used to hold water in case of fire (wooden roofs)
inside one of the buildings with artifacts
bed used by empress (had to take through window)
doors often had 9 rows of 9 bolts for decoration (9 is very lucky number)
park at north end of Forbidden City
interesting stone design in sidewalks at park
from this vantage one could see all of the Forbidden City
called Forbidden City because foreigners were forbidden to enter
north gate to Forbidden City
art in Yuzhen Fang restaurant
Lisa liked the intricate doors
Coke, Sprite, water, and beer were served at all restaurants (beer is considered soft drink)
lunch after Forbidden City (note the lazy Susan piled high)
part of ceiling in restaurant
interesting buildings
characters on wall (there were about 8)
National Stadium (“Birds Nest”) will be main Olympic venue
National Stadium (AKA the Bird's Nest)
Nat'l Aquatics Center (“Water Cube”) lights up blue at night & looks like bubbles
flame building with huge TV screen for showing Olympic games
possibly future satellite stand for broadcasting Olympic games
more Olympic buildings
Empress' Temple (I think) in the smog
parking for Olympic venues
entrance to Olympic Village
Olympic Village for athletes (I think)
security is tight for Olympics already
another venue for games
Tennis venue taken from the bus
apartments in Beijing go for $10,000 RMB per square meter
colored apartments
abandoned medieval theme park
beginning to see mountains on way to Great Wall (Badaling section)
mountains are very rocky
terraces in mountains make it possible to plant things
beginning to see Great Wall
sightseeing post
guard towers made it easy to see and shoot the enemy
wall built on strategic mountain tops (note train on left of photo)
Great Wall of China - Badaling section (1st section open to tourists)
Badaling is the closest section to Beijing
looking towards the “hard way” direction of the wall (we went the “easy” way which was hard enough)
looking down on buildings at Badaling
Lisa at the beginning of our climb
Susan at the beginning of the “easy” climb on the wall
isn't he cute in his silk and Crocs?
footpath led to this lookout post separate from the wall
view from Great Wall
lots of people have carved their names into bricks (not me!)
view from guard tower
Lisa went to top of hill
highway leading up to Badaling section of Great Wall
incline was very steep!!!
Grace at the Great Wall
leaving the Great Wall
I went slightly beyond 1st guard tower and Lisa went to second
i have no idea what this was, but it was cool
making cloissane vases of copper then applying copper pieces to make designs
all designs made by hand
copper vase ready to be hand painted seven times
seven layers of paint applied
completed vases
after they have been fired and glazed
metal warrior at entrance to Friendship Store
at toll booth
donkeys (mules?) putting in a hard day's work
cyclists carried everything on the back of their bikes
people too!
apartments (sorry for bus glare)
Lama Temple
giant pandas
banquet hall in Quanjude Peking Roast Duck restaurant was site for our closing banquet
Lisa and Susan at the closing banquet
closing remarks by delegation leaders
Patrick and Riley (Zhang Liang)
roast duck, pancake, spring onions, and hoisin sauce - yummy!
roast duck with deep fried scorpions
scorpions tasted like fried chicken
dessert - tasted like Fig Newtons
look out little duck!
Grace, ??, Brian, and Kerry
Stephanie trying the scorpion
preparing the duck
Leadership Group at closing ceremony
quartet that is part of China National Beijing Opera Troupe
China National Beijing Opera Troupe
check out the shoes
they were awesome!!!!
traditional Chinese music concert - it was really good
prettiest girl we saw in China
now that's a woodwind
beginning of melodrama of China's history
entire team of Star Professional Programs (Chinese counterpart to People to People)
the final scene of their melodrama
Star Professional Programs staff
Lisa in the Beijing airport on our way home
Castle Peak Bay of western Hong Kong
Hong Kong in the New Territories region (Palatial Coast & walled psychiatric institution)
Hong Kong's Siu Lam Psychiatric Center (walled area) & Tai Lam Chung Reservoir (note the dam)
Grace and new friends on Dragonair flight home
xie xie (pronounced shea shea) which means thank you
