Like some of his peers in the program, Creighton was on his first visit to China. He was most impressed by the face-changing demonstration he saw at Qingchengshan Senior High School.

Before visiting the high school, the students stopped by the Dujiangyan branch of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.

Leo Glasgow, a junior from Cornell University, took photos of the pandas and exclaimed, "I am so lucky. I have never seen them so close."

Glasgow, also on his first visit to China, described the country as a perfect combination of history and the present.

The New Yorker was impressed with people wearing hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing) in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, and admired how the locals showed respect for history by wearing them.