Day 29 - Cultural interaction with Local students !

October 12 , 2010. Settled our Project presentation early in the morning at around 10am before doing other stuffs. Well did my part of work in the presentation and manage to complete stuffs before the presentation starts. Everything went smoothly i guess. After that we went to 快乐厨房 to had our lunch to act as a celebration after few days of hardworking rushing out our report and power point presentation.

After lunch, we went back to bunk to prepare all the necessary things for our performance upcoming at night. Practice the dance quite a few times so that we can remember it. After that, i went back to bunk for a nap and then when time is up, i went together with them to the meeting area for performance.

It was then 715pm where i finally reached a lecture hall. Once i step in there, what i see was 100++ students settling down at their seats. I was getting nervous and worried about my performance. But well in the end it turn out to be alright and felt very relieved after performing. Well, i enjoyed very much today.... got to go sleep now , need to wake up early in the morning...goodbye all !

So many people !!

Guys Group performance

My group performance

Self-reflection :

Today during the performance , i find that each and every group have put in alot of effort to make up for this performance. Well i find that such cultural interaction will help both local and Singapore students to gain more knowledge on their cultural intelligence as they get to know both Singapore and china culture. I feel that today performance was nice and i have gain more awareness about their life in china!

Day 27 - 2nd Day of 武当山

October 10, 2010 continued from yesterday wudang tour. Today Is the real challenge for us because we are all going to climb to 武当山highest peak call the 金顶(jin ding). This is the highest part of the whole 武当 which requires alot of energy and hours of climbing in order to reach there. I heard that it's roughly 4-5km up the mountain! So in order to make in on time, we woke up at 6am, breakfast at 630am and set off to the mountain at 7++am.

Starting of the journey is still okay for me as it's not that tiring but as we have walked for 1hour ++ and as we goes on, the steps are getting steeper and steeper which makes us more and more tiring . Here are some of the pictures! See the whole journey of the walking...

My group photo

Steps...

More Steps..

More and more steps... ~_~

More steps and continue climbing after 2hours...

See the red house? That's 金顶!

This is a beautiful !

Finally Reached the top

After that, we all climb down the mountain Asap because we are very hungry. After lunch , we took the coach back to hostel and this marks the end of our 武当tour. Well pretty sad that such nice memories ended so fast...Hopefully i am able to see it and experience again next time .... cya all !

Self-Reflection :

In this wudang trip, i have seen alot of elderly people climb up to the peak of the mountain despite of their conditions. I can see their determination which keeps on pushing them to climb up to the peak of the mountain. I really respect their actions because , even a teenage like me already have problem climbing the mountain. But they still continue to perserver to the end. I think that we should learn such spirits from them... Well time to sleep, very tired... bye all!

Day 28 - TEAM BUILDING GAME FOR LECTURE !

October 11, 2010 started lecture in the afternoon as everyone was very tired after the Wudang trip on the 10th of october. Even though it's afternoon lesson, i still woke up early in the morning at 930am. Don't ask me why, because it's my body alarm which call me to wake up. HAHA. So after washing up, i went to 堕落街 to buy breakfast! Well ate some dumplings and finally tried the 周黑鸭, quite famous in Wuhan.

Then , i slacked all the way in the bunk watching movies, relaxing before attending lecture in the afternoon.

1pm strikes and we all get ready to go to class. Today lesson was interesting. Ms Hock told us to build a bridge which can withstand several book weight. So i get my group members and started working on it. In the end our bridge was being made into a "Sampan Boat shape" which still able to withstand 4 heavy books. Well good job team! :)

After lesson, we all went back and start to "chiong" our projects and report. That's all for today! BYE BYE all!

4 books can be withstand by our "sampan"

Our Bridge! looks like a sampan HAHA!


Self-reflection:

Today team building game was rather a meaningful lesson to me in this lecture. This is because i find that through this team building game, we can clearly see how our team-members work together. This is where we can see what are our team members are forte in each section. Well i am confident that we are able to work together as a team and strive for the best! 加油all! Group E gogogo haha... Well signing off now. Bye~

Day 26 - Wudang (武当) here i come!

October 8 2010 , HELLO all! Today it's the last touring trip in Wuhan. TODAY we are heading to 武当山! Woke up early in the morning at 6am, get ready to set off at 645am. Before that we head to 堕落街 to buy some breakfast. After that , we all boarded the bus at here goes our 5 hours ride to 武当山!


Reached there around 1230pm and had our lunch in a restaurant. Then now is the beginning of our tour! Bought a ticket at the ticket counter and we proceed to take the mini bus up the mountain. First stop was the 太子坡 followed by the 紫霄宫 then lastly by the 玄帝殿. All of these temple are very old, but yet they are maintained well! Okay pictures ahead!

Mini bus to the Wudang mountain

Ticket booth

太子坡!

武当山

People practicing 太极

Group E

The 2 different temple below


龙香头

After that we proceed to our hotel to take dinner, then went back to hotel and rest. Need to get ready for tomorrow mountain hike! Cya again !

Self-reflection:

Very tired but happy because i finally got the chance to go to 武当山. I like the environment and the scenery there because the weather is very cooling!!!! Oh, today i am so lucky! I manage to toss a coin into the 龙头香 with just one coin. HAHA, alright stay tune for more Wudang experience tomorrow ! Bye !

Day 25 - 3 in 1 Package

October 8 , 2010 as stated in the title above. Today it's a 3 in 1 package. Why do i say that? It's because there's 3 activity i do today. Practical test > Project > Shopping. Well nothing much to say because it's just another normal test. Well did the best i could, hopefully it will turn out to be good... Up next is project discussion, today we went to do some filming for my project movie and it's successfully taken! Hopefully we can finish the video on time because now we are really running out of time! :p

After project discussion till the evening. A group of us decided to go to 汉口 to do some shopping . We took a taxi there because it's peak hour but it's rather a disappointment. This is because that taxi meter anyhow jumps inconsistently. In the end some of us who shared the taxi end up at the end of the 步行街 and the whole taxi fair cost 42 RMB. It's far to expensive as compared to others who took taxi too.

Well let's not talk about this again. After alighting, we went to a 步行街 similar like pasar malam in Singapore to shop for a few hours. After that, we settled out Dinner at a restaurant then we went back to hostel. Another unlucky incident is we waited bus 588 for 20mins and it's full of people. We managed to squeeze up the bus but everyone was packed like sardines! That's all for today, so should i consider lucky or unlucky today? hmmm...

Our dinner

My bowl of beef rice with vegetables !

This is how squeezy in the 588 bus -.-

Self-reflection :

Really felt pissed after being 'Conned' by the taxi driver. Seriously it's really pissed and angry when you yourself know that you are being conned by someone but yet you cant do anything... Well i hope that taxi driver will feel guilty what he had done. As for you people out there, next time be more careful when taking the taxi! Got to go now, need to sleep early. Tomorrow i am going to 武当山. WU DANG HERE I COME!!!!!! :D

Day 24 - INTERACTION WITH LOCAL STUDENTS!

October 7 , 2010 It's interaction day with local students in the afternoon! After PM lecture in the morning, we all went back to hostel to get ourself ready for today's activity. Well since it's a BBQ in the afternoon, we all went to the provision shop to buy the necessary stuffs for BBQ. Drinks, snacks all sorts of stuffs are bought for the BBQ secession and off we go at around 12pm. The BBQ pit was somewhere near 建设五路 and it took us around 1 hour journey of walking! VERY TIRED once we reached that place because it's very far away from our campus.
We get started by laying mats on the floor and begin to do those necessary preparations. Starting up fire, cut and poke those hotdogs and mushrooms.

Cutting the Cabbage for BBQ

Group E

After that , i went to a open area where there's alot of sports for us to play. Table tennis , Badminton, Basketball etc. Today i learn another new skill in my life. I finally know how to play table tennis today. Thanks to 沈平(shen ping) , one of the local student who teach me how to play table tennis! Thank you 沈平！Well i got hooked on that sports and i keep on playing it.. Table tennis is fun!

Other than playing table tennis i also play basketball , badminton with the local students. Well they are much better than me in sports because they do practice frequently, unlike me :(

After whole activity ,we all left the place together and went back to hostel to rest. What a day, What meaningful and enjoyable day for me ...

Playing basketball!

Self-reflection :

Thinking back today about the BBQ secession in the afternoon, i find that it's a good experience for us to have such interaction with them. First is to get to know them more , second is to know more of their lifestyle. For example, The way their BBQ and us in Singapore is totally different. They BBQ cabbage, mushrooms , meat , 馒头(Buns) etc while for us is Fish, seafood, meat, marshmallow and alot more. They use oil instead of butter to apply on the food too. Well this is what we should know, their way of doing stuffs are different from us which can distinct show a difference between both country. But what really important is that through this interaction , i have know more friends and this is the best thing i ever experience today! :)..

Day 23 - Project discussion + Shopping

October 6, 2010 as usual PM lesson from 9am to 10+am today. First Ms hock give us a introduction about the Secondlife stuffs in the virtual world. Telling us how to use that program to communicate with people around us and around the world.

After that we continue on our lecture until 10+ am and ms hock release us early for us to do our project. So after lesson we all went back to hostel to put our stuffs and head for our lunch!

Today my lunch was Mutton soup noodles. Very tasty and the soup is filled with a strong aroma of mutton!

After lunch, we all head back to hostel to do our project discuession and the cultural performance discuession too. But before starting projects, i went to have a hair cut since i find that my hair is quite long. So i went together with Liangxun and the whole cutting process is an eye opener for me! The process of cutting hair in Singapore and in Wuhan is totally different!

First they help me to wash my hair , then hair cut , then wash hair again and lastly it's Styling! Woo whole process is so fun and it's a new experience for me!

My new hairstyle!

Once project discuession is done , most of us went to 建设七路 to had our dinner. After that we also went to their streets there to buy some stuffs after dinner. Well didn't manage to buy any stuffs except one key chain i guess. But did alot of bargaining and stuffs for the girls since they are all shopping manic! haha...but well kinda sad where we didn't mange to reach on time in the hostel by 1015pm even though we cab back to our hostel. Got fine for 20bucks being late but it's okay since its our fault for not obeying the curfew.

My dinner :D

建设七路

China's Cab

Self-reflection :

Very happy today! mange to get a hair cut after few hrs of thinking and consideration whether to cut or not. Well i did make the right choice because i atleast can experience the whole process of hair-cutting. It's really an eye opener for me as i don't really go out to a barber to cut my hair as most of the time my mum does that! haha...Also let us know more about the difference between singapore's Cab and China's Cab. Mostly china's Cab has a grills covered in between the car whole in singapore there isn't. I think this is more on a security purposes as this is to protect the driver from people. Well that's all for today, Looking forward for tomorrow's activity which is interaction with the local students! Cya all!