Day 24

Hey peeps!

Today we had Chinese calligraphy class in the morning.

And i'd realised that Chinese characters are really very unique.

Like what the calligraphy teacher had told us, only the Chinese people make the characters we normally use as a tool of communication into a form of art. How special is that.

It always seemed so easy when we watched the teacher write using the Chinese brush (Mao Bi).

But when it was our turn to try out, we even had problem holding the brush, we need to apply the right strength for different fingers, keep our wrists straight, &.... many rules to follow.

Alrights, picture time!

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Okay, i'm gonna briefly blog about my past few days.

On tues,Agnes, lihong ,&i went for clay art session!

The shop is just a few steps away from our dorm and the price is only 25rmb,

&it was rly cool, i kept imagining i was like yijeong while doing the clay. ;D

But it was rly not that easy, we kept on redo and i believe the guy who was teaching us was losing his patience rly soon.

The clay was rotating rly fast and we have to keep our wrists still, and slowly press our fingers onto the mud to obtain the shape we want. After 3 hours, my vase was finally done. But it still need some drying up process, so i'm only collecting it next week.

Will post up the picture of my vase once i have collected it.

;D Okay, i'll stop here for now! Tmr is saturday, gonna slp till i 'm happy.

-Part 2

Alrighto, lets continue with my 3 gorges trip.

After touring around by the wooden boat, we bus-ed to another scenery spot.

I have forgotten the name of the place, i only know that the name appeared in the story of Three Kingdoms(三国).

It was the place where LiuBei（刘备）stayed in in his elder age. When he realised that he was too old and not as fit, he did not have the energy to support his 2 young sons, so he committed the children to Zhu GeLiang（诸葛亮）'s care.
Xiao Tan the female tour guide told us this little story about that place. I know some of the characters in SanGuo from the movie Red Cliff! Haha, useful indeed!

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Yupps, this marked an end to our 3 gorges trip.

After that we bus-ed back to the cruise.

After dinner, we had a farewell party in the cruise restaurant.

All of us sat in 1 big round, played games, had snacks, & some performed.

Overall it's a happy ending for me.

The next morning, when we woke up, our cruise was already reaching Yichang.

And finally, we took the tour bus and spent another 6 hours plus back to Wuhan, Hua Zhong Shi Fan University.
We slept early that night, to get ready for school the next day!

;D

Cruise Trip to 3 Gorges （三峡）part1

So, on friday morning, everyone woke up rly early, 5 plus, carrying our big big bags and set our way off to cruise. We needa stop at jingzhou first cos the bus journey was superrrr long. We were sleeping like nobody's business, practically noone was listening to the tour guide's explanantion. For me, i seriously slept through the whole journey, which was about 4-5 hours, couldnt rly rmb. When we reached Jingzhou, we first visited a temple kind of place, with statues of some historical heroes. I didnt rly have the right mood to listen to the stories about the place cos that day was release of results. Most of my friends had checked their GPAs , some were contented, others rather disappointed, i didnt managed to check cos i didnt noe it would be out so early in the morning. I knew i didnt perform well for some of the modules, so i was alr prepared for the worst.

LOL. i was literally sleeping soundly.

Looking out from the bus (Lh took this pic), we passed by many villages to reach to Jingzhou city.

Reached our first scenery spot, we saw many cute little children running about! They 're all rly young, only around 3-4. So cute.

I have seriously nth to say abt ram.

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Okay, after visiting that spot, we headed for our lunch at 1 of the best restaurant in the city(this's what the tour guides said).

After lunch, we visited their museum. The 1 i remembered most was in the coffin section, where many ancient coffins that the archeologists digged out were displayed. There was a really big coffin, and inside the coffin, it was divided into several parts. It kind of looked like a small little house with different rooms rather than a coffin. The museum guide told us that it was for people who were in extremly high position. There was even the skeleton of that person who used that coffin. Looked rather scary :/

Okay, some pictures taken at the museum.

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And finally, after museum, we started our around-2-hour journey to Yichang, the place where we board the cruise.

The original timing of the boarding time was 6pm. We reached the dock before that, but we were told to wait for the officers to settle some issues about the cruise. There were fightings and quarellings, neither the tour guides nor our teacher could do anything. They could not even ensure us that we are boarding that cruise that night. We just blindly waited from 5 plus till 9plus and we could finally board the cruise.

Well, the issue was actually pretty serious, some of them really started fighting. Dr. Zhu said these kind of commotions are rarely seen in China, so tourists out there, no worries coming to China for holidays. ;D

Our room in the cruise!

2nd day in cruise was completely pointless, cos of the foggy weather, the cruise could not move at all, so we were stucked in the room, the only entertainment for us was dai-diiiiiii!

At night, i was at the deck, appreciating the night river scenery, in the cool breeze.

C-O-Z-Y!

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We could finally step out of the cruise on the 3rd day, we took a smaller boat to Bai Di Cheng 白帝城 where we could see all the beautiful natural sceneries.

On the smaller boat!

Can see the wind was super strong.

Nice mountains!

Hoho, meet edward!

And Amanda!

Xiaoliu, the tour guide.

Aqilah, Kitming,Agnes,Hukun,Kangqi!

The cave.

When we reached Bai Di Cheng, we put on the life jacket and sat on the boat, this boat is totally electricity-less. It was rolled by some local strong middle aged men.

We toured around the river, listening to the local guide telling about their local religion, the Tu Jia Zu (土家族)culture. Their life is really completely different from ours. The young people need to walk for about 4 hours to work every morning, around 5am. Can you urban people imagine?

They still gotta walk back after work! Unbelievable.

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I will continue the rest of my cruise trip next time. ;D

Take care everyone.

DAY 14 (Yellow Crane Tower)

Surprisingly i'm blogging for 2 days continuously! ;D

This morning we had our 中国辛亥革命 lecture for 2 hours, and we headed to 1 of the must-sees in Wuhan -->Yellow Crane Tower(黄鹤楼)!

;D i was imitating the statue behind.

Yellow Crane Tower!

Gigantic background!

Behind me --> Wuchang town

Looking down from top of the tower

A small toy-- fill in some water, blow & u can hear bird chirpings!

Lol! Thosand-hand GuanYin formed by the boys. They took quite sometime to obtain this posture.

DAY 13

HOHO!

I 'm jumping blog posts like crazy! Day1 --> day 7 -- > day13.

And i'm so sure that i'll be continue jumping.

Unlike some of my other mates, who're living a much more interesting life here and 're blogging faithfully everyday. How i envy them man! ;D

We have been going to arcade really everyday man, the games there are super addicting, i've been winning and losing coins like maddd. But there's this girl who is much more crazier than i am, she spent oh-so-much on the tokens! Bingo, she 's whom u all guessed, Miss Agnes. That place is her second dorm i think.

Well, yesterday was spent with Gugu & grandma. They came to visit me! And i felt really happy cos i could finally see some of my loved ones! &that was why yest i didn miss sgp that much.

Tmr'll be visiting the Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼. Yea!

Pictures accumulated since a few days ago.(Pictures below are taken from Lihong's cam, I was too lazy to take pictures. Pics in my camera are pethatic.)

Yes, this was what i was referring to. I can win and lose so many tokens so easily.

I could completely understand how those gamblers feel. Oh-no, i'm NOT going to enter casino.

Competing percussion with ram. Yes, percussion is another drug, we could choose our fave taiwanese songs.

The egg tart here is awesome man, the custard is thick and fresh. Not that sweet& milky too.

Ichiban! ;D

Alrighto, i think i should go to bed now.

There's quiz on tuesday. All the bestttt.