Life in Wuhan ت

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name: allan goh
school: ngee ann poly
age: 19
birthday: 15/5/1989
horoscope: taurus
status: single

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• August 2008
• September 2008
• October 2008

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Day 6

last breakfeast

Today is the last day on the boat, we had our last breakfast in the ship and leave the ship at 7.30 in the morning and head to a museum in “Jing Zhou” to see a crop that was being buried during the Chu dynasty.

hubei national museum

the tortum of the chu's

It was amazing that we are still able to see the muscles of the crops even though it was a crop that was more than a thousand year.

We also visited the gallery that shows the silk and brede and the things that were being using during the Chu dynasty.

entrance.

After the museum we went to the ancient city wall that’s was left behind during the three kingdom period.

guang yu's knife

photo inside the city wall with liu bei and company

There was noting much to see at the city wall, I heard from the tour guide that the government did not build talk building inside the city wall, because they wanted to preserve the scene of the city wall.

inside the ancient city wall

steps up the city wall

Afterwhich we went somewhere near the city wall to have our lunch, and than travel back to the university.

It took about 5 hours to travel back, we had a long sleep on the bus.

Straight after we return we went for dinner, while I was paying for something, to my horror the person tell me that the notes I gave her was a fake one.

fake money

But luckily it was only 20rmb.

We then go back to the hostel to wash our clothing.

clothes haning outside our room

It was quite a nice experience as when we were in Singapore there were actually ready-made place for us to hang our clothes but in here we have to tie strings to hang our clothes to dry them.

My happiest moment at 11:47 PM

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Day 5

WOW! It’s about 6.00 a.m. and I have to wake up because we are setting out to one of the sight in 3 gorgeous. I am very tired, because I slept for only 4 hours. But no matter how tired am I, the sight of the scenery wakes me up, It was a grand and magnificent sight, all these natural sight we see cannot be find in Singapore.

with one of the mountain in San Xia

with the local guide, Miao Miao

the sampan that we took to tour.

We also see the suspended coffin, u will find it unbelievable to see the coffin up there, till today no one is about to explain how the coffin get to the top.

coffin on the cliff

We also went for another scene later, we have to transfer to a sampan to see the scene.

the sampan rollers

the chief of the sampan rollers

The sampan rollers are mostly of an older age, as the younger generation had mostly went to city area to work.

I was told by the local tour guide that, if you are interested in any of the girl in their tribe you just have to step on her feet, and if she also interested in you she will reply you by stepping you back, if she is not interested in you she will just ignore.

However if you wanted to marry her you have to work as a sampan roller for 3 years.

We also went to “Bai DI Miao” (White Emperor Temple) it was actually a place that was use to commemorate “Liu Bei” one of the historical figure during the three kingdom period.

300+ steps up to Bai Di Miao

main entrance of Bai Di Miao

entrance of the Bai Di Miao

finally inside Bai Di Miao

There was a lot of tablets carving here some of the writing on the tablets were actually written by some of the important figure in china example “Jiang Ze Ming”, and some tablets were actually left behind last time.

Calligraphy by Jiang Ze Ming

touch this statue, different parts ave different meaning ,

guys use left hand and girls use right hand.

picture with guang gong and Zhang Fei

I have also brought back quite a number of souvenirs back.
Though it was a very long and tired day for me, but I think it was a really fruitful day, all the scene that we visited drives all my tiredness away.

group photo

My happiest moment at 12:30 AM

Friday, August 29, 2008

Day 4

The first thing that I do this morning is to try to on my laptop, I was very worried that it cannot be on, but luckily it can be on, my heart relax down at the very moment, I went back to sleep till 10 a.m. and wake up to prepare for our trip to 3 gorgeous.
There was a miscommunication, we were told to meet at 12.30 in the noon, but actually we can actually meet earlier than this.
Hence it was actually very rush for us to travel from Wuhan to Yi Chang, the journey took about 5 hours.
Luckily we manage to reach there on time to register for the permit to board the cruise. Noting much happen today as most of the time we were on the bus travelling.
We “meet “the legendary no door toilet in a break half way through the journey.

doorless toilet

We then have our dinner at about 6.00 p.m. and then set off to board the cruise “Princess” at 7.30 p.m., it was raining heavily, and we had no choice but to run to the cruise against the rain. At 8 p.m. we were told to gather at a pub inside the cruise for a variety show organized by the management of the cruise.

Bording Pass for the Boat

Zhi Xiang & I shared the same room

Our group photo taken at the ship

Perforamce 1

Perforamce 2

Perforamce 3

I was selected to play a game, I was in the third place they also give me a souvenir or participating in the game.

me in the game.

After the gathering we went to rent mahjong to play.

Mahjong Session

We played till 1 plus and I slept at 2 a.m. it was really a long and tiring day.

My happiest moment at 11:27 PM

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Day 3

After a long night rest, we felt energetic, we slept till 12.30 in the noon.

We went out to shop at the malls outside the campus again.

While walking, it suddenly rain and we also have not eaten our lunch.

Finally we found a “Hong Kong” style restaurant, I ordered frog leg claypot rice and also some side dish to share with my friends.

I find the food quite ok, except that it was very oily, I was later told that the local use a lot of oil to cook, and we have to tell them to add lesser oil into the food. We continue to shop after the lunch, we saw a very familiar shop “Bread Talk”.

We also went in to buy some bread for breakfast tomorrow.
Something very bad happen, after we went back to our hostel.

My Friend accidentally spill water on my laptop, I cannot on my laptop now, I am very worried, what if my laptop laptop cannot be on , I do not know where can I repair my laptop.

I was told by my teacher not to on the laptop at the moment, leave it at one side to dry.

I am very scared now.

Oh please divinities please do help me.

My happiest moment at 1:25 AM

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Day 2

the main entrance of the university

This is the first morning in Wuhan Hua Zhong Normal University.
We meet the principal at 9 a.m. for the welcome ceremony, the principal started with a welcoming speech, brief us on the history of the university.

everyone settling down in the room.

the opening ceremony talk by the principal

After meeting with the principal, Mr Luo took us for a campus tour, he introduced the buildings and places to us, this was a long and tired walk, all of us was very tired from this walk, no matter how tired we are we still manage to complete the tour.

the biggest canteen in the university. got 4 level

the local student get their hot water from here.

After the walk, we had our lunch with the principal, we had a small talk with him during the lunch and I found out that he was actually quite a nice guy (not stern).

one of the VIP room inside Gui Yuan Bing Guan

the directory board to the hotel

We also learn something during the lunch, like the sitting arrangement, the host is to be seated facing the entrance, followed by the next important figure at his left and right and so on, and the guy seated nearest to the door normally is the least important figure as he have to open and close the door as and when it is needed, so he had to be seated near to it, the table that is used is a round table not like the western kind a long rectangle shaped table.

The second thing that we had learned is the toasting, I was told that when u are toasting to someone who is rank above you, the edge of your cup cannot be higher than him. Hence the lunch comes to an end, we bid farewell to the principal and then we went back to our room to rest.

At about 3.30 p.m. we went out again to shop for some daily necessities, and we also brought some back some tidbits. After buying all this, we went to “Pizza Hut” to have our dinner.

After dinner we went back to our hostel to rest and the day ended.

My happiest moment at 11:20 PM

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Day 1

I woke up at 4 a.m. today to meet our group at Singapore Changi Airport.
I was very excited because this is the first time I am going overseas following the school and of cause also the first time that I went for an overseas trip with my friends.
We took a long time to check in because there was a long queue, we took about an hour to complete the procedure, and finally the checking in was completed at about 7.15 a.m.
We went in the custom and shop for a while at the duty free shop. And board the plane at about 7.45 a.m. and the plane set off at 8 a.m. then we reached “Guang Zhou” at about 11 something to transfer to the domestic flight to fly to “Wuhan”.
There was about 4 hour wait in between for the domestic flight to set off, and hence we walk around the airport to look for our lunch.
This is the first lunch that we took in China.
I ordered a bowl of noodles, I think it was quite nice but was rather expensive it cost about S$8. At about 3.20 p.m. we board the plane to Wuhan. And finally at about 5 p.m. we finally reach our destination Wuhan.

Wuhan domestic airport

after we get down from the plane we took this shuttle to get to the arrival hall

The moment we reach the arrival hall we saw the Wuhan Normal University coordinator Mr Luo.

Mr Luo Jian

They had arrange a bus to bring us to the university, however there was a traffic jam, and reach the hostel at about 7.30 p.m.

everyone busy loading buggage onto the bus

We were then allocated to our room and then dinner was also arrange for us.
Most of the dishes that were served were spicy and hence few of our friends cannot take it.
After which we when back to our hostel to rest, on the way back we brought a “IP card” (a local sim card) and an international phone card to call our family members.
Finally after a long and tiring day we rested comfortably on our bed.

The main entrance of our hostel.

our room 1002.

My study table.

my COMFORTABLE bed.

My happiest moment at 10:32 PM

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Welcome :)
This Blog is to record the memories of the Overseas Immersion Programme.
This is indeed a very happy and memorable trip, though there are good times, bad times,
and even conflict among our self,
this will difintely happen, because all of us have different habits, we might not be able to stand each other habits,
if all of us were to remember the unhappy moment, this trip is going to be a miserable one.
hence I decide not to remember those unhappy moment,I also belive that there is more happy moment then the negative one.
I never regrate going for this trip.

Wish know more about my trip?
you can go to the "LINK" to select the month from august to october.
after which select "DIARY" to read "My Life In Wuhan".

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