I've been to Tianjin le!!!

Went Tianjin this morning! Hearing the rest of the GIP-Beijing people who went to Tianjin said that it is not that great, we made it a one-day trip! This will be my first time taking train! Yeah! So exciting!
We took the normal train there which cost us 19 bucks BUT no seats! So we actually cramped ourselves at the doorway like this:

thought that it will be alrite until we realised that the door nxt to us is the entrance to the cafe in the train itself! Everyone keeps going in and out! AND someone actually juz smoke nxt to us! What an experience! Shifting in is a betta choice and some uncles offered the girls their seats while they walked abt!
We reached tianjin after one and a half hour!

We went to the 鼓楼 by cab! The most interesting of all there is the 钟！YM and me hit it 3 times for gd wishes!


We made our way to the Ancient Cultural Street! Bought a lot of stuff from there! Cheap and gd! YM, YC and WY bought the 扯铃tat we saw during the arcobatic performance yesterday! WY is quite gd at it!

As we took quite a long time at the Ancient Cultural Street, we went to 天津狗不理大酒店 for the famous 狗不理包子! It's actually Haha! Not as bad as the rest had said! But the service there is awesome! When u get down from the cab, there's ppl opening the door for u, someone offering u a hot towel to wipe urself! UPS leh! Haha! Had quite some food there which cost us abt 45 RMB each.

It's time to head back home le! We will be taking the reputable bullet train which cost us 58 bucks!

Haha! But it only takes 30 min to reach beijing! Look at the speed:

There are free bottle of water for each of us at the entrance and magazines for us to read! In fact, it made me feel like I'm on the plane! Cool huh!!!
Home Sweet Home!
So satisfied that it's an one-day trip for Tianjin! Filled with areas that we need to see there! And of course getting quite a handful of good deals there! Haha! Recommended for one-day trip!

It will be great for this and the following week! Been travelling to Great Wall and Tianjin! Nxt weekend, I will be going to 九寨沟. one of the nicest place in China! So excited! Keep posted yeah!

不到长城非好汉！

Today we went to 长城 for our first sch field trip since we came here! Yeah! Going to one of the seven wonders of the world. So happy!
Cold wind blows as we reached the place. We went to the 居庸关 part instead. After taking a group photo, it's time to conquer 长城! Yeah!!
It was tiring climbing up the steps. they were high and the land is steep.

We took pictures along the way. The scenery is fantastic! Nv see it much in my life before. Dun really rmb if I saw such magnificent scenery before! Haha!


We climbed for about 2 hours! Although we din really walk through the whole 长城，which i tink will like take dunno how many days, it's a gd feeling going there! together with a bunch of frens! Haha! Shiok!

on the way down, we saw this stretch which have many locks chained onto the wall. Flora said that these are done by couples to show tat they will be chained together!
Eh, for me, I feel that being chained together sounds bad. Like they have no choice like tat! Haha!

Anw, wish them all the best in that la! Haha!

We went to watch acrobatic performance after Great Wall! It was amazing! though we missed quite a bit at the start due to some stupid system by the theatre, the performance by them is......! Oops, running out of vocab! Use ur imagination! Wakaka!

Wanyi called me today! Haha! While saving her lights in the dark! Study hard ar! Dun play too much!

Exams coming for everyone! All the best! See ya back soon!

What a day!!!

I juz met a person who pissed me off today! In the night actually!

We were trying to get a cab from Carrefour as we waited for the bus and realised the the last bus is alr over! AND...

Juz when we saw a cab appearing and flagged it, a ...... juz ran to the middle of the road and flagged it down! Right in front of us! ARRRGH!!! What the ....! Why is there such person here! I dun understand why i din stop in front of the taxi and confront the guy! Haha! Maybe i wun do tat too la! Haiz! Spoil my day!

It has been a long time!

It has been a long time since I blog le. Haha! Been super lazy nowadays and life's a bit common la! Nothing much happened since then.

Last wk i went to a volunteer session that is about communication between parents and primary school children! It is one of the few volunteer sessions that I took part in after I am not required to do CIP in school anymore.

The parents are from the rural areas in China. Hence, the kids have to stay in their school for their convenience. This results to communication breakdown between the 2 parties as they do not have much times together. The aim of the event is to try to break the communication barrier between them.

It had been great fun playing the games with the parents,children and the other volunteers. There are other student volunteers that took part in this event. Had lotsa fun getting to know them! There's even an American volunteer who is studying here. Guess what? He majored in Chinese studies lo! LOL!

The experience is sth that I nv had before!

And I went shopping today! Haha! Though i kena 砍菜头 by the lady! But nvm! Lesson learnt! Haha!

Anyway, we celebrated YC's birthday yesterday with a freshly made fruit cake! Haha! Happy birthday YC!

It's SPRING TIME le! Haha! Yeah!!

SICK DAY

My first food poisoning in CHINA!!! All thanks to a 紫米煎饼that i ate yesterday. Cos WY and YC always say the 煎饼 is nice there! But they din say which one!

Vomitted and had diarrhoea! Aiyo! Dunno go how many times liao! In midnite oso! So today report sick! Call office say I'll be going late! Haha! In the end, I din go at all!

But I'm feeling betta le! NO NID TELL MUM HOR!! everything's ok le!

Anyway, it's the beginning of the second month in Beijing! Cheers!

SKI TRIP!!

Sunday 1/3
Happy March!!!
We went skiing today. It's the last day to ski as the weather is getting warmer and warmer and the ski resorts are closing. However, Layming was unable to join us as she had an interview with someone in the afternoon.

It was a smooth trip for us! I guess is becos we did some research in advance not like last wk where we miscalculated the time! However, when we reach there, the place looked totally like a deserted place. And the snow seems LITTLE. Nevertheless, we only paid like 66rmb for the trip, so it's forgiveable!

After putting our gears, we.re finally ready to ski lo! Haha! With our personal coach:



Since Flora skiied before, she taught us on the basics like how to move forward and brake etc! YC and WY picked it up quite fast! I kept falling down, spending most of the time trying to get up! After lunch, I managed to ski without falling down from the top of the slope! Mission accomplished!

I moved on to try make a snowman which I had promised someone to do! As the snow is alr melting, it's almost like ice snowman! However, I managed to do a small one! Haha! So CLARE!!! This is for u:





Haha! It's quite a memorable one since it's my first time skiing! Though it's not the best experience, but it's still quite fun!!!