alrights, i m back from CHINA. Okay, dat sounded as if i m like super happy to be back...but nah, i m not exactly very excited or happy to be back. Part of me wants to stay in china but part of me want to be back in singapore..confused. Anw, the trip to china was great, yes, i cant believe i m actually saying this but..i do miss china. Alrights, let me just start from day 1..lots of pics for ur entertainment..(:

DAY 1(Arrive in xia men, staying at luo yuan er zhong school hostel):
WHOO...luckily my luggage only weighed 20.5kg. What about pei...hers was 21 plus, and she was still saying that her luggage only weighed 15kg at home..LOL.

Okay, the plane trip was alright, though the plane was kind of small? Had a fun time sitting with joanne and nic. Apparently, joanne is on her first flight journey, so it was kind of funny. I mean those first time experiences on the plane??yeah. Nic..was crappy..and he video-ed the whole landing of the plane..dat was so gonna kill us, cos we were supposed to switch off all electronic devices. Oh, and there was no personal tv either, but doesnt matter.

Took a coach...or rather bus down to luo yuan..to the school, where we stayed for 1 week. &the bus driver was seriously TERRORISING..like seriously. He drove like nobody's business. Luckily i was not sitting in front...if not, i would alrdy suffered a heart attack.

The student councilors were really very friendly and nice(: Okay, we didnt exactly stayed in a hostel, it is the new classroom block actually. The toilets had DOORS..thank goodness..lol. But we have to fetch water from the canteen area...den, up 5 storeys to the toilet to bathe. Initially it was really tiring, but got used to it. And we bathed using PAILS..not like i never did before..lol.

&we got mineral water..branded WAHAHA..endorsed by LeeHom...LOL. damm funny right???i mean the endorsement for mineral water part. So, yea, there is the face of LeeHom on the water bottle, i tore out 7 tags!ahah.

Alrights, i guess dats all for day 1?

PICTURES FROM DAY 1:



F60..the gate we boarded.




jaz acting like some beggar..FAIL.LOL


hey..isnt dat our plane..

in ur dreams..

this is then the plane we took..


Lee Hom


my flight sitting partner..apparently, she is flying for the first time..haha.








i saw this in the toilet.




eh..can u see me?i m at the far left hand side.


we love our shades, dont we?


our room shared by:me, pei, jaz, celest, haze, theng
love ya girls!


only the first day and it is kind of messy?lol




2nd love:COKE!


1st love:EDISON CHEN(:

DAY 2(Luo Yuan Er Zhong):
Breakfast was alright...and my sore throat is getting worse? I think i m so going to lose my voice...crap.

had some meeting session with the principals and all that..and i was seriously falling asleep..OPPS. cant be helped..not enough sleep. But i DIDNT fall asleep okay!

Went out in the afternoon to some park...a park whereby u have to climb STAIRS..weird right. Anw, it was really refreshing, imagine if dey had such 'climbing of stairs' for vball trg, i think we will all just die...haha.

Shopping after dat...for stationery, food..basically stuffs that we needed for the trip. Ended up buying a few pen..kind of cheap, compared to singapore.

Ooooh...and the mandarin oranges are seriously NICE..BIG, SWEET AND JUICY. Doubt u can find them in sin. PLUS....THEY ARE SEEDLESS. (:

Lesson plan discussion in the night before sleeping.

PICTURES FROM DAY 2:

we shifted the tables..











some sports complex..


A park..with stairs..












my climbing partner..haha


talented.



just some random shots..ahah.

DAY 3（first day of teaching!):
ITS OUR FIRST DAY OF TEACHING!!!!

Started off with the 3rd class using jonathan's lesson plan..snakes and ladders. The lesson was pretty alright...only problem was that we had to almost fully communicate with them in chinese..and my chinese sucks.

class 4 was next. They were really funny...cos they actually asked for our autographs at the end of the lesson...lol. Just a thought...will singapore students ever do that???eh...no.

Enrichment was kind of alright.
Seriously shacked after just one day of teaching!!!!and my voice is almost gone?

Who do i look like????Which celebrity??Cant guess?...carry on reading.lol.

DAY 4&DAY 5(2nd and 3rd day of teaching):
Teaching again. Yea.

Except dat on the 3rd day of teaching...we went on a house visit to one of the student's house! Pretty interesting. We had to walk there and it was kind of far..but these students have motorbikes/scooters to ride on to school..wish we could do that in sin...haha.

There was also a basketball match in the afternoon which we obviously lost. I mean, we were playing against the school's basketball team and who are we??we dont even play basketball...but great job guys! We didnt exactly get thrashed, so thats alright. Had a TUG-OF-WAR competition, its my first time, like duh...we never had this in sin before..had we? Anw, we lost, but it doesnt really matter either..its the experience that matters. Seriously, tug-of-war is EXTREMELY TIRING, ur hands and back and thighs get all suan-ed up while pulling the rope. But it sure was fun!(:

Pictures from day 4&5:






I m a great photographer..i know.














thanks pei for the posing such an entertaining photo..HAHA


my dearest roommates!

DAY 6(climbing the mountain):
okay, today we climbed the mountain, some mountain, dont ask me the name of the mountain, cos i dont know.

anw, it was a really long journey frm the sch to the foot of the mountain..and yes, we had to walk. Great exercise though. There wasnt exactly any proper pathway on the mountain..so it was kind of difficult to climb up. and i nearly slipped a few times while climbing up. Didnt exactly climb all the way up but high enough to get an overview of the bottom, which was..definitely nice. At the top of where we climbed to..it was mostly all rocks...big ones, really nice, cos they are white..makes the place look rather peaceful. &there, celest had to pangseh us and go with her 5 bodyguards...HAHA. but we soon went separate ways after dat..except that me and pei were mostly together...lol. had a great time there!(: I mean, we dont get to climb MOUNTAINS in singapore.

On the way back...i kept complaining...cos my legs were BREAKING..and as i have mentioned earlier...the journey to the foot of the mountain is VERY LONG...so yea. Ironically, i went to play vball with haze, pei and the er zhong students after coming back. Their vball ball is seriously cute...it is smaller and bouncier then those in AC...haha.

It was dance practice at night..i m starting to really like our orientation mass dance..haha. &i have quite a nice dance partner..who is extremely crappy. Okay, he better not be reading my blog..if not he will prob like float up to the sky. lol.

PICTURES FROM DAY 6:










we look spastic..lol




nic trying to jump over. he almost didnt make it..LOL


















another entertaining shot, with nic and glenn acting like pregnant ladies..LMAO.


the whole OCIP team with lan lao shi.





DAY 7(last day):
today was the last day of teaching...seriously..i had no mood to teach..and i bet that the students werent interested either..lol. Took quite alot of photos with them!

it was the concert item in the afternoon. i must say...GREAT JOB TO THE WHOLE OCIP TEAM for the dance performance. though i didnt see it cos we were all dancing, but i know it went well!(: all our efforts had been paid off! the singing item was..alright.haha. I though i was going to cry when we were singing 'if we hold on together'..but i didnt. i started tearing only when we were off the stage...and i was seriously crying after the whole concert. Like..i mean, today is the last day, sort of since we are going to leave extremely early the nxt day and though i m not exactly extremely close to my students or anything, i just cant bear to part with them. I kept thinking..thinking that probably this is the last time i m going to ever see them..bcos i never know when will i ever come back. perhaps 1 yr frm now..or perhaps never? you know that kind of feeling. And when we get back to singapore..everything is not going to be the same anymore. These 5 days of teaching has seriously been an amazing one..getting to bond with the students was equally as great. Sometimes i just wish that we could just stay there forever. Then i think again, if we stayed on, will it still be the same??will our lives still be as amazing as those 5 days?

It was dinner in some restaurant with the principal at night and i had beer. Beer which tasted so great..at least nicer than those in singapore. It is light beer..so yar, the taste wasnt very strong and it was SWEET. haha.

PICTURES FROM DAY 7:






class 3(:






class 4(:






the dinner.


packing....

DAY 8(Leaving for good?):
Parting is one of the most difficult task to do on Earth..how true. I will never forget these 5 days.

Climbed wu yi shan in the afternoon. Climbed up 800++ steps??great achievement there uh..lol. & it was the first time since we arrived china that we are staying in a hotel. Nothing much..

PICTURES FROM DAY 8:

whats left..fruits and more fruits..






the second picture looks like an eagle right!!!






























wheeeee...i love the peanuts!!!!




cauliflower in pei's tea...and rice in my tea..HAHA


nice hair theng!


love this shot.

DAY 9:
More sight-seeing. And we finally ATE our CUP NOODLES...AHAH. Jaz was a total spoiler who kept wanting to sleep. You know what..she slept on the bus for 7 1/2 hrs and in the night at the hotel...she said that she wanted to sleep again..such a pig right.lol. oh wells..doesnt matter.

Oh, and we did some shopping today..for less den an hour? Pathetic but at least we still got to shop.

PICTURES FROM DAY 9:















'hamburger'















i love the colour of the leaves!!!feels like autumn time.











DAY 10:
2nd last day in china.

We went to some island called i dont know what..opps. It was really nice and they actually have this music school there specially for those young talented musicians..really cool. Supposed to visit some museum with 70 over ancient piano but didnt since we wanted more time for shopping..anw, i m so going to go back there to visit the museum.

It was shopping time after dat. Another rd of speed shopping..1 1/2 hrs. Bought a pair of piglet bedroom slippers which is so so cute and it was only 20 yuan. &also a pair of boots which i find it abit tight now..darn. Like every shop i went to..the biggest size was prolly 38??They shld seriously have sizes like 40...sizes that cater to my feet size..LOL. Crap la..i hate having such big feet.

There was another rd of shopping at some shopping centre in the night. Bought a bag..love at first sight. Bought chips too..lays potato chips..flavours dat cannot be found in singapore, dats why i bought them.

Oh..and yea, the students frm er zhong called our hotel every night..lol. Tonight is prob the night where we talked the longest..mainly is jaz talking to her no. 1 fan. LOL. And i forgot to mention that my room and jaz's room were connected!!!yea..so it was really fun.

This last night was kind of interesting..ahah. CIRCLE OF TRUST. Too bad pei..who ask u want to sleep early?ur loss..HAHA.

&i forgot to mention abt the sch trip..omg..was totally disgusted. LIKE WAT THE. Shall not comment further..

PICTURES FROM DAY 10:

a model design of the school..(2nd pic)




nice flowers!(:






AHHHHH!!!!this little boy was SO SO CUTE!











DAY 11(home sweet home):
Headed straight for the airport after breakfast.

The flight was SUCKY...S-U-C-K-Y. I m so going to buy motion sickness pill nxt time i go on a plane. Throughout the journey, the plane kept rotating sizeways and kept flying up and down when the sky was extremely clear...like i dont think there was any air turbulence. The landing was kind of terrible also..and i nearly puke.

Was super shacked after touching down.

PICTURES FROM THE LAST DAY:







this toilet is sooooo cool. it has this plastic thing on the seat ring and when u press one of the buttons..the plastic sheet will be changed!


love chair???lol






circle of trust..and y is pei doing there..she is not supposed to be in!






my piglet bedroom slippers(:


I will cherish those memories.

BYE!