At Last!

DAY 25

At last!We got to visit pharmaceutical companies here:)We actually visited 2 of them today!
It was interesting to see that how similar the place were to the ones we visited in Singapore.The equipments and machines were similar to the ones we saw at Merck in Singapore.



First stop-Clover Biopharmaceuticals!:)

Let's Make Dumplings!!

DAY 24

We had our final presentation today!We presented on herbal medicines and cultures!I hope we did well today:)

Anyway,after the presentation, we went to make dumplings!!We gathered at the halal canteen and started to make dumplings!It was my first time making dumplings so my dumplings came out weird but my friends made really nice dumplings:) I was quite happy that I got to try making dumplings here because I don't think I would ever try making it at home in Singapore.

The Ingredients!

End Product!Before cooking...

After making it,the dumplings were cooked for us and we got to eat it!:) I tried a few and it was really tasty, especially with the vinegar sauce:)

Our Cooked Dumplings!:)It was tasty!

City/Town!

DAY 20

Since it is sunday today,the class decided to make a trip to the city!!Because we needed to take the shuttle bus from school,which will take us to the old campus,where we will take another bus to reach the city...we had to wake really early this morning(since there is specific timing for the school's shuttle bus) to catch the shuttle bus:)

McDonalds for lunch!Yay!

Town!

A volunteer we got to know from our visit to the textile college was kind enough to help bring us around to shop as we were not that familiar with the area...


The day ended quite horribly-because we missed our bus(some bus service here end at a certain time) so we had to take a taxi back to the school.However,somehow there were no taxis available:(We had to walk quite a long way to reach a place where the volunteer told us we could take private cars and pay the driver to take us back.



The car I took(with joyce,ke xin and kidman) got lost quite a few times and we started to feel a little nervous as we could not really understand what the driver were saying as she had a strong accent..However,after seeking help from some people,the driver managed to understand us and we got back safely!:))Even though it was a little scary,the taxi ride was also an interesting experience for me because there are no private cars(taxis) in Singapore!:)

Let's do Embroidery!

DAY 16

We went for embroidery class today!!:)We gathered at the parking area at 830am and we set off for our destination,Chengdu Textile College!:) We were welcomed warmly by the teachers and principals of the school when we reached:)After that, we went on to proceed to a classroom where a teacher explained more about embroidery to us:) (specifically,Shu embroidery)

The teacher (on the left) explaining about Shu embroidery:)

After that,we got to try to do some embroidery and it was really fun!I really liked it and I think it would make a good relaxing activity!haha!We also went for a short tour around the college.It was bigger than it seemed.There are a lot of famous buildings and statues (Eg Statue of Liberty and the Egyptian Pyramid and more!) around the school and this is within the school compound itself!:)I noticed that the schools in China differ greatly in size to the schools in Singapore.Even UESTC is really huge compared to the universities found in Singapore.:)

What they made:)

A gift we got!Thank you:)

An art piece made by the students!This is actually made up of wood!

One of the statues found around the school!

Trying to do embroidery!

Final Ms Cahn Lesson:(

DAY 14

Today is the day of the final presentation for  Miss Katherine's class, which also means it is the last class we have with her:( She will be leaving on wed and go to Xia Men. Another teacher, Mr Ryan will come and take over. Today's presentation consisted only of 2 people in a group (for my group-Ke Xin and Me), which is pretty scary because we were the only ones in front when it is our turn..usually there would be 4 or 5 of us.But it's okay,the presentation ended and I hope we did well:)

Us with Miss Katherine:)

DAY 15

We had the day off today to work on our final report!At night, we held a small gathering/farewell party for Miss Katherine/Welcome party for Mr Ryan!We gathered at a small lounge in the shopping district and played games/hang out!:) Even though it was quite short because we already had to go back to our dorms, it was fun!:) The reason we had to go was that here, the front gate of the dorm will close at 11pm..We did arrived late and had to ring the doorbell to ask the auntie to open the doors for us:)!Luckily she wasn't angry:)

At the gathering!Playing games!

Er Mei Shan!!Snow!

DAY 13

We needed to get up by 6 this morning.It was really a pity that we could'nt sleep in as the hotel bed was really comfortable and the room was so warm!:(We went to get breakfast before setting off for the next mountain,Er Mei Shan!We had to change quite a number of buses before getting on the bus that will drive us to our destination.The road to the mountain was not a very pleasant one because it was such a bumpy ride with lots of turns!A lot of people had motion sickness because of it:(!Luckily,I was fine:)




When we reach the destination,we could see that the mountains was covered in snow!:)We have to climb some distance before taking a cable car to the top.Hence,we had to buy some special hiking shoe material that would help prevent us from slipping!It was really a great experience climbing up even though my 'shoe spike' kept on coming off:(

The view on the way up:)

Surrounded by snow..:)

On the way to the top!

After climbing some distance,we went on to join a long (and packed) queue to take the cable car to the top of the mountain!It took some time for it to finally be our turn to be on the cable car! The cable car here are quite different from the cable car back in Singapore..It can carry up to 100 people and the ride to the top only take 1 minute!But because there were too many people packed inside the cable car,we had a hard time trying to look at the view outside while on the way up:(, which was quite sad..We got to the top and spent some time there (to take pictures etc) before heading back down and back to the school:)

Trying to kill time while waiting for the cable car!!:)

Only part of the cable car queue!

This is the view when we reach the top!:)nice?

2D1N

DAY 12

Today is the day to go for the 2D1N tour to the mountains!
We needed to gather at the parking lot in front of the teaching building by 730am!Luckily this morning, me and Ke Xin arrived there on time:)
We set off to go to Le Shan Mountain first and it takes about 2h30min to get there.It was quite a long bus ride!:(
When we reach there,we had to queue to see the giant buddha.Even though it was quite early (ard 11 or 12 plus), there was already a lot of people lining up. At first,I didnt know that we were queuing to see the giant buddha.We were in the queue for about 20 minutes before we got to see the giant buddha.The statue was really huge!It was bigger than what I had expected.

The Giant Buddha!!

Staircase we took to get to the bottom of the Giant Buddha statue!It was really long:)

Entrance to see Giant Buddha.

 After seeing the giant buddha,some of us went on to see the sleeping buddha.Before going there,we went to a temple.To get to the temple,we had to actually climb a narrow long staircase!It was really exhausting but at least we got to exercise a little!haha!

We got to tour around at the top and there was 2 caves that had smaller statues in them.After that,we went on to see the sleeping buddha.It was also really huge and the buddha statue was really in a sleeping position.At first I couldnt figure it out but my friend helped me to see it.:)

At thebottom of the stairs!

After that,we headed to our hotel.We were excited because we were told that the room is going to be warm!It beats our cold dorm room:)!We were hoping to get at least a decent hotel room but it was much nicer than what we had expected!:))
We went for dinner at the hotel at 610pm.And they served us fish!!It was the first fish dish we had since we arrived here!We ate the fish till we could see its bones literally!

Jinli Garden Hotel!

After dinner,a group of us decided to walk and shop around the area there.We came across a small river and a unique pathway to get to across it.There were stones across the river and you can step on the stones to get to the other side.We all tried to go through it but because there were some missing stones in between that leftt quite a big gap..only a couple of us(Wei Jie and Joyce) succeeded!

Trying to get across!!:)

We went on to shop around the area.Even though it was quite late,a lot of the shops are still open. However,there wasn't a lot of the local people around.We got to do a little shopping before heading back for our hotel to rest for the long day the next day.