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Friday, March 6, 2009

05/03/09 (Day 03)

I did my bed! (=
This morning I woke up at around 6.50am. I was feeling so sleepy as I blogged till 1+ am yesterday night! IS lesson was supposed to start at 9 am. All of us spent some time waiting for the IS lecturer but she did not turn up. After which, Mr. Wong Chun Chong told us that the lesson actually starts at 1pm! Sigh, we could have slept for a longer period of time. ):

I’m not sure what does this Chinese phrase meant but I’ll check out the meaning as soon as possible.

They were doing volunteering works for all kinds of services such as related to medical, repairing things and so on.

Since there were no lessons, the seven of us (Seok Hui, Ci Min, Stephanie, MeiYun, Franice, Winson & I) headed to the Macdonalds nearby to have our breakfast! (= I ordered a fillet-o-fish value set meal for 18.50 RMB with an upsize. Yummy, but I felt bloated~

There's a second level but nobody is allowed to enter yet. Anyway, we’re not supposed to take photos in Mac but we just took them secretly!

Then, we shopped at the departmental store for a short while and headed back to the hostel.

I didn’t know that Macdonalds have Mac delivery bicycles?!?

As mentioned yesterday, this is the main block in WUST. It is right in front of the school's main entrance.

Say "KIMCHI"... In Korean, "Kimchi" meant cheese.

This shot was unsuccessful in capturing the jumping actions.

The WUST students from logistics management helped us to take photos! They are nice people!! Now, it’s our turn to help them take photos.

This is GUY. (You can call him gay!) He was trying to jump but my camera was too slow in capturing the action. I think he looked like a batman in this photo!

The streets near WUST. Most of the time, it is crowded.

We need all kinds of moisturizers to protect our skins & also lip balm! Lip balm is very important. We have to apply it to prevent our lips from drying up. IT'S REALLY TROUBLESOME TO APPLY SO MUCH CREAMS.

This is Xiaoling teacher conducting the IS lessons. She speaks fluent english and she's very friendly & easy-going.

Basically, she covered a part of the Hubei province history.

I didn't know that Hubei people have a nickname. They are given a name called "Nine-Headed Birds". It means cunning (too smart). Interesting!

And have your heard of the ancient stories like "Hua Mu Lan" and "Dong Yong and the Seventh Fairy Maiden"? Both Hua Mu Lan and Dong Yong were born in HuBei. Dong Yong was born in XiaoGan.

Oh, Qu Yuan was born in Hubei's ZiGui too! As a remembrance to Qu Yuan, commoners threw dumplings into the river to prevent the fishes from eating up Qu Yuan's dead body.

As for Zhu Ge Liang (a famous politician), he was not born in HuBei but he lived in HuBei for a long period of time. He lived in LongZhong.
I didn't know that so many famous ancient people were born in Hubei!!

Do you know that there's seven warring states in China? They are Chu, Han, Qi, Zhao and so on.

Do you know that China has 56 nationalities including Han?

If you don't now you do! ^^

Xiaoling teacher provided us with lots of information. Thanks to her, I get to know so much more about China's history. :]

Xiaoling teacher also told us some of the places of interest [East Lake, Yellow Crane Tower, Snake Hill, Tortise Hill, Red Cliff, 3 Gorges, Mountain WuDang, RiverBank and etc] and popular food [Dou pi (Lao Tong Cheng), Tang Bao, Ma Hua, Steamed Buns, Lotus Root Soup Stewed with Pork Chops and so on...] that we can find in other cities other than Wuhan. The more we know, the more excited we are!!

Mr Wong hard at work :)

Photo was taken during a break.

Group C loves to take photos!! HEE HEE...

Xiaoling listed a number of shopping malls for us to know.

Meng, Fran..

Mr. Wong. This pose was suggested by Fran. HA HA!

Class ended at 5pm. Fire (the 1.88m tall guy) & his friends (Guy, Yellow & Zero) treated us (12 of us) to dinner. We felt so bad and wanted to pay them back but they rejected. We had a chat with them and I realised that they're all very independent. They also taught us how to speak their local language. No matter what, thanks for the treat! After dinner, we took a bus ride (Bus no: 702) which costs only about 2RMB to a Shopping Mall. The bus was squeezy but we managed to squeeze our way up! A different experience.

Guy, Fran & I bought tickets to enter the Haunted House! The experience was an scary & exciting one! I had a fun time in there. We also played the basketball.

HAUNTED HOUSE~~ Again, we're not supposed to take photos but we knew it after we took them.

The shopping mall closed very early as compared to Singapore. It was around 9.30pm and the whole shopping mall was very quiet! And all the lights were switched off already so we had to find our way out to gather with the others.

After which, all of us took cabs back. The driver does not know the way to WUST back gate. =.= So we turn one big round before we could reach the hostel.

Group photo! Guys, thanks for bringing us out today! (Not all of them who went are in the photo.)

Anyway, today's weather is much warmer. I'm already getting used to the weather here.

My internet connection is not working but yesterday it was still working fine. SIGH, I HAVE NO MOOD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THAT. I don’t know what went wrong but I just hope that it will be fine by tomorrow night! :(

GOOD NIGHT PEOPLE! I'M SO SLEEPY ALREADY! :/

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