“It's been an amazing experience,” Fritz said of her time in China. “I have learned to be much more independent.”
Later in the morning, Peng went with Mrs. Obama to the former Imperial Palace in central Beijing.
That was to be followed by a private dinner and a performance. On Saturday, the first lady was due to speak at Peking University and on Sunday visit the Great Wall.
At Peking University, Mrs. Obama plans to speak on the importance of free exchange of ideas, her aides said.
“I do think tomorrow she will talk about the value of the free exchange of ideas and the Internet, and how that, in her view, has made our country stronger; how even when you can be the object of criticism, as she and her husband have been, that that's not a system that she would change,” Tchen said.
