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Saturday, May 30, 2015

China Study Tour - Day 4 (Thursday)

That day was the day that I had awaited eagerly because we would visit 德州五中 (Dezhou No. 5 Middle School). I didn't know why I was really enthusiastic to visit local school there. As usual, we had Chinese cultural class in the morning. That day, we were divided into 4 groups. My groups and I learnt Chinese Painting and Chinese Dancing. I really liked Chinese Painting class since I had wanted to study it from a long time ago haha. We painted 枇杷(loquat) and this was the result of my painting hahaha. Isn't it good? hhahaha, jkjk!


After finishing study Chinise Painting, we moved to another class. In that class, we learnt Chinese Dancing. Before we started to learn, the previous group hadn't done yet. I didn't know what the name of the dancing was, but their dancing was very cool! I didn't take any photos of my group when we learnt it, I only got a photo of the previous group from my teacher.

Previous Group

Selfie at the dancing class XD

with the dancing teacher.
ignore my face hahaha

After having Chinese Painting and Chinese Dancing class ended, we had our lunch. We should walk to the eating place and it was quite far from the cultural school haha. We ate for around an hour then we came back to our hotel since the local school began at 2pm. So, the local school there has a recess for 2 hours but the student must go home and come back to the school after 2 hours. I asked my teacher, "Sir, when will our school have a recess for 2 hours which we have the recess at home?" He only laughed and said it was impossible hahaha.

We were divided into 8 groups and we entered grade 7. We waited outside the school because it was still 1.40pm. We didn't forget to take photo there. So these were the photos!

The school from outside


I was so amazed by the school. The school was sooooo big! The class that my friends and I entered had 75 students in one class. So many, right? In my school, the maximum student in one class is 45 students. We would stay at the class for around 3 hours and follow them studying. They were studying language and I didn't understand at all until I wanted to go out from the class fast. The one who sat next to me didn't look at me at all and it made me wanna go out faster. The teacher asked me something in Chinese which I could understand, but the teacher asked the student to ask me in English. I saw that it was hard for them to speak in English, I didn't know why. The students there were very enthusiastic when we came to their school but the thing that made it difficult was our language.

I looked my friend who sat in the back and they were like sending a letter. So I followed my friend by writing, "你好, 我叫黄彩耘!:)" (Hello, my name is Huang Caiyun!) and sending the letter to the one who sat next to me. Fortunately, she replied me! Hahaha. First she had replied me in Chinese but she took the letter and rewrote it in English. From that case, I could conclude that they were good in English but it was hard for them to speak in English. 

Language subject ended and the next subject was Geography. Their Geography subject was in Chinese until I thought, "Gila, mereka ga pusing apa ya belajarnya make Zhong Wen semua?!" (Don't they get confused because the subjects are all in Chinese?!) 



Fortunately, we didn't need to stay for 3 hours because after Geography, we were asked to go to their school field. There were a lot of 9 graders students on the field. I found someone handsome there and I directly asked to take a photo together. I won't share the photo here hahaha. Fyi, all the people there mostly use QQ to get connected. I asked his QQ number so that I could email him. He said that he forgot his QQ number and asked for a pen. Then he asked me to write my email on his hand but I chose to take a paper inside my bag and wrote my email on it. Because there was no table, I made my hand as the base for writing my email. My pen was like quite stupid because the tint was difficult to go out -.- Surprisingly, he lent his back for me to write hahaha. He isn't only handsome but also kind XD

the school from the field

The first friends who we met on the field




with the PE teacher hahaha

From the school, we walked to the eating place to have dinner. And yay, that day we went to the supermarket againnn! But the difference was we were allowed to walk around the mall. If in Indonesia the yakult was for only 65ml, in China the yakult is for 300ml. The yakult's bottle was also very cute until I brought it to Indonesia ahahhaa. My teacher said that only in China Pizza Hut had pizza with pork flavour. Because of my curiosity, I asked my friends to buy the pizza together and they wanted it. We came back to our hotel at 9pm because the mall closed at that time. I took a bath, played my phone and slept. It was one of the best day in the study tour!

Dinner

yoghurt for 4.90元

Yakultttt

This was soooo delicious!

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

China Study Tour - Day 3 (Wednesday)

The sun rose and my friend's alarm rang. I saw my friend wake up and just in a few minutes I fell asleep again. When I opened my eyes, I heard the sound of falling water in the bathroom which I could tell that my friend was bathing.

After my friend finished bathing, I directly went into the bathroom. We prepared our things for that day and directly went to second floor to have our breakfast. I felt happy because that day the culture class started.

We gathered at the hotel lobby at 7.20 am and we walked to the cultural school because the distance wasn't too far. We were divided into 2 groups. That day, my groups studied pecking opera and papers cutting. I didn't take any photo of papers cutting x_x Pecking opera class was very cool because the people who sang there were very awesome! They could sing high tone and my teacher said that their high tone voice came from abdominal breathing. Wasn't it cool? :D


I wore the pecking opera's costume

After studying, we had our lunch in another place where we should walk to reach the place. Maybe it took around 2000 steps to reach the place from the cultural school. Honestly, to have lunch in that place, it felt like I ate in a prison HAHAHA. I told my teacher what I thought as if we had eaten in a prison. She said it was because the school wanted us to know how to live in the boarding school whereas we stayed in a hotel hahaha.

The scenery of the way we walked to the eating place

The scenery of the way we walked to the eating place

The scenery of the way we walked to the eating place

The scenery of the way we walked to the eating place

Lunch :D

The scenery in front of the eating place

Finishing our lunch, we walked around 2000 steps again to reach the bus to go to Jinan to attend a calligraphy exhibition. When my teacher said that we were invited by the government of China, I suddenly felt quite proud HAHAHA. The journey from Dezhou to Jinan took around 2 hours. When I arrived at the museum, the exhibition was in the museum, I was amazed by both of the building of the museum and the scenery around the museum. Those were so amazingggg!!

The museum

The scenery in front of the museum

My hair ahaha


inside the museum

Because we were invited, we should hear some people giving speech. They spoke in Chinese and I didn't understand at all except some words and sentences. When the others clapped, then I followed them to clap. It was funny because I didn't know anything then I clapped lol. The calligraphy exhibition was so cool. It had a lot of beautiful works. We didn't only see the calligraphy exhibition but also see another stuffs inside the museum.






When all of us were in third floor, the teacher gave us free time for an hour. My friends and I walked around the third floor and we found a huge bear statue. We also found a shop which sold a lot of cute stuffs about animals.

Ignore my face

Because the price of these dolls were expensive
and we might not use this, that was enough for 
us to take a photo with these cute dolls XD

We came back to Dezhou and went to supermarket again! I didn't know why but I really liked to go to the supermarket hahaha. I always hunted pocky to be brought to Indonesia. I had heard from my friends that instant noodle in China was so delicious so that I bought it too. Arriving in the hotel, I took a bath and then went to my friends' room to eat the instant noodle together. It was delicious but still indomie was the best! Hahaha. I came back to my room around 11.30pm and directly slept because that day was a tiring but fun day.

The supermarket

Shopping complex outside the supermarket

the scenery of the main road when we were in the way from
the supermarket to the hotel

Monday, May 25, 2015

China Study Tour - Day 2 (Tuesday)

The flight from Singapore to Beijing took off at 1.10am and arrived at 7.20am. We went to Beijing by Singapore Airlines. We had our breakfast in the plane and it was so delicious!

My breakfast

My friend's breakfast

When I arrived at Beijing, the wind blew coolly. The temperature was low, maybe it was around 18°C. Arriving at the Beijing Airport, all of us were given a bread, an egg, milk, and sausages because the bullet train was at 12.13pm.


I forgot to take a pic of the milk because I had drunk it u.u

 Then we immediately went to bullet train station to go to De Zhou. Bullet train was very fast, the speed was around 350km/h. It only took an hour 30 minutes to reach De Zhou by bullet train. I slept during the journey because I felt so tired after a long flight.

Bullet Train Ticket

We arrived at De Zhou at around 1.30pm. We had dropped our baggages off first at the hotel before having lunch at the place around our hotel. We walked to the lunch's place by food since it was quite near. But honestly, it was so far hahaha.

After having lunch, we went to a place, by foot too, for opening ceremony. All of us were given the same t-shirt for the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony took around 2 hours because we needed to practice first hahaha.


Selfie with friends XD

We had our dinner at the same place as the lunch place because it was provided by the summer camp organizers. Because we still had a lot of time and we didn't go to the hotel, we went to a supermarket around there to buy some food. I hunted pocky hahaha. After shopping some snack, we came back to the hotel. I was waiting for the new simcard when a principal of Chinese Culture school came and asked me something in Chinese. I didn't understand because he said so fast. Then he asked a thing that I understood so that I could answer him hahaha. Then he said like "Let's try again to ask her. Does she understand what I ask or not." Unfortunately I didn't understand HAHAHA

The hotel room was so comfortable. I really liked the hotel and the second day was so fun! :)

The room and my roommate :D