2007 Athletic Adventure Summer Camp
The famous Beijing Haidian High School is inviting us to attend their high school sports tournament! Our delegation will be comprised of boys and girls who are specializing in one or more sports, such as volleyball and basketball. We will work with the high school students in Beijing, and experience their athletic training environment and oriental culture. China is a country we must visit as a young global citizen. First hand exposure to the Chinese culture and its people gives dimension to an education that classroom / textbook alone cannot adequately impart. This trans-cultural experience will be very important to enhance our global awareness and leadership ability.
Included Bonus Highlights
> Great Wall --- one of the seven wonders on earth.
> 2008 Olympics opening stadium and major facilities.
> Participation of 2007 Beijing Students Sports Events.
Itinerary
6/28/07
Depart from San Francisco to Beijing, China, a city which will host the 2008 Olympic Games.
6/29/07
Arrive in Beijing and warmly welcomed by CCE’s Welcome Team. Arrive at the Beijing Radio & Television University (BRTU) Campus dorm to check in. Welcome dinner at a local restaurant.
6/30/07
CCE officials will address a welcome speech on the Camp Opening Ceremony. High school athletic students and coaches will welcome us. Team list and supervisors appointed.
7/1/07
Visit Tiananmen Square, the largest square on earth, which covers 123 acres. To the north of the Square, Tiananmen Gate guards the entrance to the Forbidden City, where we will visit later today. Afternoon workshops with our high school peers, discussing athletic issues. Famous Peking Duck Banquet tonight.
7/2/07
Visit Temple of Heaven, a sacred place built in 1420, used to pray to the heaven for good harvests. Believe it or not, the huge Hall of Prayer For Good Harvest was built 600 years ago, without the use of a single nail. Afternoon visit: world’s largest and best preserved imperial garden---Summer Palace.
7/3/07
An exciting excursion is arranged after breakfast to one of the seven wonders in the world, the Great Wall. The 3,750-mile-long Wall stretches from east to west in North China, is the only man made structure visible by naked eyes from the moon. After lunch, we will visit the historical Ming Tombs, where 13 Emperors and their Empresses of the Ming Dynasty were buried between 1368 and 1644.
7/4/07
Visit the China Sports Museum, which lies in the southeastern corner of the National Olympic Sports Center in the northern suburbs of Beijing. It is an octagonal spiral building flanked on one side by a huge sloping wall with its highest point protruding out of the center of the structure. The huge wall, 36.5 meters high and looking like a large flag or a mountain peak reaching up to the sky, symbolizes the pinnacle that China's athletes reach for. Also tour Yuan Capital City Wall Ruins Park, China Ethnic Cultural Park, and the 2008 Olympic Games Village nearby.
7/5/07
Visit Beijing Country Club Golf Course, social event with Chinese student athletes and supervisors. After dinner, we will watch a famous acrobatic show.
7/6/07
Seminar on sports and health. We will have a person from the China's Olympic Committee Anti-Doping Commission discuss topics on nutritious food and the dangers of enhancement drugs.
7/7/07
In the morning: Athletic Forum. We will have local Chinese professional and student athletes come in and exchange stories that have traveled to compete all over the world. After lunch: A specially arranged visit to the local ordinary Chinese households will be made to talk about Chinese culture and customs, along with popular games and sports.
7/8/07
Visit top high schools and meet Chinese student athletes and coaches in the morning. In the afternoon, class on traditional Chinese sports, including martial arts, combining exercise and the arts of self-defense, and Tai Ji, or Chinese shadow boxing, combines control of body, mind and breath.
7/9/07
Visit top High Schools, social sporting event with the local students and coaches. Seminar on Chinese sports and business. Learn about the history of Chinese and sports and much of an economic growth it has been in China today.
7/10/07
Take a few basic Kong Fu classes at the Beijing International Martial Art School for the whole day.
7/11/07
High school student Sports Tournament: some of our delegation will participate some competitions, while others can attend as spectators. Board a sleeper train to Xian after dinner tonight.
7/12/07
Arrival in Xian this morning. Xian is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin. During Xian's 3,100 year development, 13 dynasties placed their capitals here. Xian enjoys equal fame with Athens, Cairo, and Rome as one of the four major ancient civilization capitals. We are going to visit the Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, which is praised as 'the 8th wonder of the world'; the City Wall of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), which is the largest and most intact Ming Dynasty castle in the world.
7/13/07
Visit Big Wild Goose Pagoda: Originally built in 652 during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) We will also visit the 3,000 year old Banpo Village Remains from the Neolithic Age (approximately from 8000 BC), and the Forest of Stone Steles that holds 3,000 stone steles from 2000 years ago. After an early dinner, we board a sleeper train to Shanghai.
7/14/07
Our train arrives in the morning in Shanghai, the largest city in Asia. We will visit the Temple of Jade Buddha which is the most famous temple in the city. The Huxinting Tea House is said to be a very safe and clean place, because it sits in the center of a pond, human beings can cross the zig-zag bridge to take tea in the teahouse, but evil spirits cannot ------ they cannot turn those corners. We will have an exciting night tour to the famous Bund, and the sleepless Nanjing Road.
7/15/07
Shanghai will host 37 major domestic and international sports competitions this year, aiming to enhance the city's status as one of Asia's major sports hubs. We will visit the top High Schools, social sporting event with the local students and coaches. Visit the Shanghai International Circuit, China’s premiere sporting facility and the most impressive circuits in the world built in 2004 and have set the standard for other international tracks. Meet Team A1 China.
7/16/07
An early excursion to Suzhou. We will go to the heavenly city Suzhou. Poets have compared Suzhou to the Heaven and called this water surrounded city the Venice of the East. We will visit Garden of Forest of Lions, the Liu Garden, the Cold Mountain Temple, and the Tiger Hills. We stay in Suzhou tonight.
7/17/07
Today we will fly to San Francisco. Our home bound flight will arrive in SFO same day in the morning. |