China Study Tour - Day 11 - 14 (Thrusday-Sunday)

HI GUYSSS!! Sorry for not updating this blog especially for not finishing my China Study Tour's post. So I'm gonna cut it short, I'm writing straight day 11 till the last day hehehe. Enjoy!

DAY 11
Day 11 we went to Beijing from Jinan by bullet train in around 4 hours. Arrived in Beijing, we directly visited Tian'An Men and Forbidden City, which is in the same place as Tian'An Men. There are twice flag ceremony everyday in Tian'An Men, in the morning and in the afternoon. Tian'An Men is so big and we took a lot of photos there. Satisfied walking and taking photos around Tian'An Men, we went inside the Forbidden City. Forbidden city is also big and for me the trip inside there was quite boring. I didn't really like about kingdom or something like that but I took photos as well hahaha. MY FEET WERE STILL SO PAIN and it was a struggle to walk through the Forbidden City hahhaha.

At Tian'An Men, in front of Forbidden City

Around Tian'An Men

Inside Forbidden City :)

Finishing visited Forbidden City, we went to Nanluo Guxiang. Nanluo Guxiang is an short alley which sells lots of foods and stuffs all along the alley. My friend, Tata, and I bought some snack and tea leaves which we could make the tea in our beloved country, Indonesia :D

Churros!

Nanluo Guxiang was not our last destination on day 11, we still went to Wangfujing, the most famous shopping center because of the affordable price. We could bargain all the stuffs there except the stuffs in the mall around there. Because of the lack of my Chinese language, it was so funny to bargain. I used my calculator to bargain! hahaha I could only say how much the stuff was lol. I got some souvenirs for my family and friends in Indonesia and Wangfujing was the last destination of the 11th day!

so disgusting ewww.

DAY 12
I had such a sumptuous breakfast in Beijing because we stayed at Novotel. Novotel was the best hotel during the trip! :D On the 12th day, we would visit Great Wall of China, finally!, and Xi Dan. Xi Dan is a shopping center like Orchard Road in Singapore. YAY finally I got a chance to visit one of the seven wonders of the world :D Because of the footsore, I didn't go the the top of the Great Wall but it was still good to take a photo ;p We were only around two hours at Great Wall and we continued to Xi Dan, shoppingggg! The toilet in China was not that clean and around Xi Dan there was Lafayette Galeries, luxurious mall, that had the cleanest toilet I had ever gone in China. I always went to Lafayette whenever I felt I wanted to pee HAHAHA. I bought two pieces of clothes and a stick of creamy manggo ice cream which tasted soooooooo nice. Xi Dan was the last destination and I was sad because it was the last day in China :(

With our teacher and step mother as well

Xi Dan!

look how dark my skin was HAHA

DAY 13

It was the last day in China :( I was so sad that I had to leave the city. I missed my family yet not able to leave China. The last day in China, we got a chance to visit Summer Palace. Summer Palace was a place for the kings to rest a long time ago. There was lots of water there. But the weather was still so hot! I was boring there haha but the story of the Summer Palace was nice to hear :D Our friends and teachers were all like shopping haha so after the Summer Palace's visit, we went to Xi Dan, AGAIN! haha. We bought some stuffs for the last time and yea it was sad. We had the most delicious dinner during the trip, roast duck, We went to the best Roast Duck restaurant in town! :D Feeling full, we directly went to Beijing Airport. Our flight was at 00:05 and we were transit in Singapore. It turned out that on the 14th day, May 24th was my friend's bday, Clanton. Happy Birthday, Clayton! We arrived safely in Bandung, Indonesia in May 24th. I would always miss all the memories in China! :)

pardon my face hahaha I was completely tired :')

The chefs were cutting the roast duck :D

Happy Birthday, Clayton! Sorry for a blur photo.

China Study Tour - Day 10 (Wednesday)

I woke up and looked around, all of my friends were still in their dreamland. It was true that my feet ached. I walked to the place where my phone was charging. My phone was full and I unplugged the charger. I turned on the phone and it turned out that it was 3a.m. I continued my sleeping because the others had set an alarm. I forgot what the exact time I woke up, but because of my fears, I took a bath with door opened. I took a bath alone but there were 2 of my friends(I don't need to tell who hahaha) who took a bath together. Finishing took a bath, we went to the first floor to have breakfast. Sorry to say but the breakfast wasn't that good. The rice wasn't cooked well and many things. Than not eating anything, I ended up by having the rice haha. The place for breakfast was also so small so that I should eat outside the place. My another friend asked, "Do you feel something bad here?" Honestly, I didn't feel anything bad but why everyone felt like that ._. Maybe, because there were too many complains about the bad atmosphere in the hotel and also unprepared food, my teacher told us to get our suitcases down because we were gonna move into another hotel.

Finishing tidied up our things, we were ready for the city tour in Jinan :D We went to Baotu Spring. Heihu Quan, and Daming Hu lake. The scenery in those places were soooo beautiful. But I was so lazy to walk because my feet ached until I hated stairs hahaha. My feet were so pain when I used stairs even when I walked -.- When I was in Daming Hu Lake, I bought a corn ice cream XD The outside tasted corn, but the inside was vanilla ice cream.

Visiting those places done, we went to WanDa Plaza. WanDa was a big shopping mall with branded things inside. Wanda was so big and cool. We spent around 2.5 hours there. I didn't know what to buy at WanDa so that I decided to go to the supermarket and you know what, I hunted pocky AGAIN hahaha.

 Then we went to another mall but I forgot what the name was. Around the second mall, there was a food street and also we were there to see Quanchen Guang chang (fountain). The fountain was also cool :D Maybe day 10 could be called as a Mall Day hahaha. The second mall was also very big and it had a lot of branded stuffs inside. Tata and I went to the food street too and bought fried squid, grilled mutton, and boba tea. Boba meant bubble. It was said that Asians spelled bubble as boba.The fried quid was so delicious :')

At 5p.m. we should gathered at the place we had agreed before because we were gonna have our dinner and see the fountain. The dinner was McD but let me say for the second time, although McD existed in Indonesia, the taste was different. But still KFC was the best meal during the trip XD The fountain was so beautiful and cool XD

Wanda Plaza

Inside Wanda Plaza

outside Wanda Plaza

at the second mall

In front of the food street

Food Street

Grilled Mutton

Fried Squid!

Boba tea

On the way to Quancheng Guang chang
We should use stairs! ><

In front of Quancheng Guang Chang

The fountain

Unfortunately I can't upload the video of the fountain show :(

After watching the fountain show, we came back to our new hotel. The bus was parked in front of a museum. I couldn't remember what museum it was because we didn't go there. The museum was quite cool :D Arrived at the hotel, my teacher told us where our room was and gave us the card to enter the room. It was said that our new hotel was five-stars hotel XD Because Ayleen and Sophie still felt scared, they asked us to sleep over in my room. So we slept together haha we need to wake up early the next day because we should catch the bullet train. The mall day was fun but still tiring :D

China Study Tour - Day 9 (Tuesday)

We were gonna climb a mountain called Tai Shan! Day 9 was exciting but I had been sure that it would have been a tiring day. All of the students wore the same t-shirt to prevent someone missing since there would be so many people. Before starting to climb, we took a photo together first to remember this moment ;D If we took the stairs to reach the top of the mountain, it would take around 2 hours. The good thing was we used bus and cable car to help us climb but the sad thing was we should still take the stairs to reach the top and to go down.

Before using cable car

The scenery after going down from the cable car.

In the cable car hehe

 In the midst of our climb, there were a lot of stores on the side of the road. There was a store who sold a food that I didn't know what the name is. The food was for 10 yuan and honestly, it tasted bad ._.

I didn't know how long the climbing took to reach the top of the mountain. But finally we were at the top of the mountain! We could see what many people said, the sky palace. It was so beautiful. We only spent maybe around a half hour and immediately went down. I bought a necklace with a dragon pendant yin wei wo de she shio shi long(since my sheshio was dragon) while going down.

Going down was quite scary because the stairs was very steep. It took around two hours to get arrived at the foot of the mountain because we took so many breaks hahaha.

Fobo!

 The tour leader from Bandung                          My home teacher

Halfway to the top of the mountain

Yay, finally I stood on the top of the mountain!

While going down, there was a small waterfall so I took a photo

The necklace I bought

Getting tired and the time had shown lunch's time, we immediately left the mountain. We went to a fast food restaurant and it was the most delicious food I had ever got during the trip hahaha it was KFC! Although KFC existed in Indonesia, the taste was different.

THESE WERE DAMN GOOD!

Eating our lunch done, we went to the next city, Jinan. It took around an hour to reach Jinan. Arrived at Jinan, we dropped our suitcases off first at the hotel then our teacher said that we would go to a mall. We were so exciting but the time was impossible for us to go to the mall because all of the malls there were closed at 9pm. We also hadn't had our dinner yet so that we were asked to have dinner.

After dinner, we directly went back to the hotel. My teacher said that our feet would be pain the day after so he suggested us to lift our feet while sleeping. I wanna tell you an exerience haha. So, when we came back to the hotel, some boys faces looked like they felt scared but I didn't notice it since I didn't feel anything bad in the hotel. Before entering my room, I went to my friends' room, Ayleen's and Sophie's, first to borrow a cable and then going back to my room. I took a bath and after I finished taking a bath, Tata said like this,"Sophie and Ayleen asked us whether we wanted to sleep together or not" I said yes but they should sleep at our room because I was lazy to go to their room hahaha. Suddenly they knocked our room with a panic face, I asked why. They told me that they were terrorized. The lamp was on and off by itself and then a stuff suddenly fell whereas when I had been in their room, I hand't felt anything. I became scared hearing their story but I also didn't know why that I still didn't feel anything bad. I became quite calm after telling my friends in Indonesia about what happened in my friends' room. Sophie and Ayleen decided to tell the teachers what happened and asked them to accompany Sophie and Ayleen to packed their things in their room. For the second time, I finally realized that there was something wrong in their room. The room was so smelly and the teachers who accompanied us suddenly became pale ._. Even the teacher prayed when accompanying them. Fortunately, there was nothing in my room, everything was fine. The night was quite scary but I tried to calm my self down by praying and because we slept together, it abated my fear.