DAY 5 OF SUZHOU..(EDIT)
Wow.. had to wake up early this morning to prepare for the school visit.. had to wear our school uniform.. they asked us to iron it if it was crumpled.. which i did! hahahahaha the iron was pink!!
Arrived at the senior block of Suzhou no.10 school.. wow.. it was dang big and dang nice.. it used to be one of the palaces of the Qing Emperor so everything had to be nice.. it is a school but it doesn't look like one.. looks very much like some museum.. there are a lot of pavillions where students can just go and hang out.. omg their library is an entire classroom block.. wow.. if only SJI was like that.. hahahahahaha omg the girls there are also very pretty!!! and the girls to guys ratio is like 3:1? lol unlike SJI's.. which is 0:1.. XDD
They have this in their school..
and this well.. omg i love that school!!!
We had a lesson on writing couplets which is rather interesting.. even though we didn't write any.. hahahahaha cos it's quite difficult to follow up on the first verse.. then it was time for China's favourite sport----> BASKETBALL!!! Yeps, we all changed into half uniforms and headed down to the big field to play basketball with the sec 2s.. it's obvious we were going to lose.. hahahahha like whatever.. only a few of us played.. not me.. cos i was wearing my hosue t-shirt, which is red, and the rest were wearing white.. so i was standing out like red on white... yea.. omg if i played, they will surely target me!!! so i didn't.. alright confession: i don't play basketball at all.. :P hahahahahahaahaa
We seriously got trashed on the court.. even though we were bigger and older.. one guy from the other team did a three pointer!!! Then we realised it was time to release our secret weapon---> George. hahahahahaha the other team was kinda afraid to touch him.. hahahaha maybe it's because they have never seen an Indian before.. So George was like a superstar in Hangzhou and Suzhou. hahahahahaha dang cool.. But the match ended like a minute after George entered.. then we all headed back to the bus!!!
We went to Hanshan temple next.. there is a legend bout the bell that's inside.. it was built in the Liang period of the Southern dynasty.. Han Shan, a monk during the Tang dynasty, had an apprentice, Shi De. A misunderstanding caused them to be separated and ShiDe sought his master for 20 years to clear the misunderstanding and found him in the temple. Both stayed on as monks. The following year, there was a flood and a bronze bell came floated to them. The monks tried to bring the bell in but they failed so ShiDe vaulted off a bamboo pole and landed inside the bell's cavity.. and floated all the way to Japan. So to call ShiDe back, the monks cast a bell of the same size and shape and HanShan tolled the bell every day in hopes of calling him back. The sounds were so loud that they reached ShiDe in Japan and ShiDe tolled back. So their friendship continued. Hmm... weird legend eh? Yeps, u need to pay RMB 5 to go up to the tower and ring the bell.. which i did!! hahahahahahah u are only allowed to ring it thrice.. which i did!!! and u are allowed to take pictures.. which i didn't!!! :( luckily terence went up and i asked him to help me take a few pictures.. which he did!!! :D hahahahaha
That's the bell!!
We moved on to Guan Qian Jie which was a rip-off.. they started charging money recently just to go in and shop.. which is dang dumb.. and Claudine and Kathleen didn't know bout it till we reached there.. so we made a wasted trip there for nothing.. so we decided to go straight to some other road to shop!! hahahahaha we got approached by a syndicate member and it was dang cool.. he brought us to this shop where they sold fake shoes and clothes etc.. they even offered some of the rest some drugs!! lol.. we did a lot of bargaining.. for the shoes..not the drugs or the condoms.. XD TzeYang was looking at this shoe which they were selling for RMB 400? He was like can give me a price with only 2 digits? Bad bargaining.. so i stepped in and offered a last price of RMB 100.. they were like no, we can't cover our costs and etc.. so i had to pull TzeYang out of the store when they didn't give us our price of RMB 100.. finally the guy came running over and was like "okay how bout this, RMB120 is the lowest i can go.." I was like "oh he only brought RMB 100 with him.. how can he pay RMB 120?" So we were about to go off when he was like "okay..okay.. i break the rule for u students.. RMB 100" So yay!!! VICTORY!! hahahahahhaa i love bargaining!!! :D So TzeYang saved a lot buying that shoe!!!
wheew.. then we headed for dinner.. had MacDonald's which is dang cheap!! i ordered Big Mac meal and it was like RMB 16? yeps.. SGD 3+ dang cheap!! After meeting up with the rest, we headed back to the hotel for debriefing again!!
After debriefing, it was time for BOWLING!!! hahahahahha this time we played in pairs.. so i was teamed with Justin.. hahahahhaha we got 2nd or 3rd out of 4 teams.. dang.. hahahaha after the team game, we played individuals and i scored the highest score!!! hahahahahha the score could have been higher but i let alex bowled the last shot for me.. and it went into the gutter.. hahahaha nvm..
Then it was bed time!! hahahahha Yiwen and i took a few pictures in our room with me in my acquired SJI track jacket.. hahahaha i call it a joint venture between me and George.. hahahaha so his jacket became mine for a few days.. hahahahhahah thanks George!!
Day 6 below..
Arrived at the senior block of Suzhou no.10 school.. wow.. it was dang big and dang nice.. it used to be one of the palaces of the Qing Emperor so everything had to be nice.. it is a school but it doesn't look like one.. looks very much like some museum.. there are a lot of pavillions where students can just go and hang out.. omg their library is an entire classroom block.. wow.. if only SJI was like that.. hahahahahaha omg the girls there are also very pretty!!! and the girls to guys ratio is like 3:1? lol unlike SJI's.. which is 0:1.. XDD
They have this in their school..
and this well.. omg i love that school!!!
We had a lesson on writing couplets which is rather interesting.. even though we didn't write any.. hahahahaha cos it's quite difficult to follow up on the first verse.. then it was time for China's favourite sport----> BASKETBALL!!! Yeps, we all changed into half uniforms and headed down to the big field to play basketball with the sec 2s.. it's obvious we were going to lose.. hahahahha like whatever.. only a few of us played.. not me.. cos i was wearing my hosue t-shirt, which is red, and the rest were wearing white.. so i was standing out like red on white... yea.. omg if i played, they will surely target me!!! so i didn't.. alright confession: i don't play basketball at all.. :P hahahahahahaahaa
We seriously got trashed on the court.. even though we were bigger and older.. one guy from the other team did a three pointer!!! Then we realised it was time to release our secret weapon---> George. hahahahahaha the other team was kinda afraid to touch him.. hahahaha maybe it's because they have never seen an Indian before.. So George was like a superstar in Hangzhou and Suzhou. hahahahahaha dang cool.. But the match ended like a minute after George entered.. then we all headed back to the bus!!!
We went to Hanshan temple next.. there is a legend bout the bell that's inside.. it was built in the Liang period of the Southern dynasty.. Han Shan, a monk during the Tang dynasty, had an apprentice, Shi De. A misunderstanding caused them to be separated and ShiDe sought his master for 20 years to clear the misunderstanding and found him in the temple. Both stayed on as monks. The following year, there was a flood and a bronze bell came floated to them. The monks tried to bring the bell in but they failed so ShiDe vaulted off a bamboo pole and landed inside the bell's cavity.. and floated all the way to Japan. So to call ShiDe back, the monks cast a bell of the same size and shape and HanShan tolled the bell every day in hopes of calling him back. The sounds were so loud that they reached ShiDe in Japan and ShiDe tolled back. So their friendship continued. Hmm... weird legend eh? Yeps, u need to pay RMB 5 to go up to the tower and ring the bell.. which i did!! hahahahahahah u are only allowed to ring it thrice.. which i did!!! and u are allowed to take pictures.. which i didn't!!! :( luckily terence went up and i asked him to help me take a few pictures.. which he did!!! :D hahahahaha
That's the bell!!
We moved on to Guan Qian Jie which was a rip-off.. they started charging money recently just to go in and shop.. which is dang dumb.. and Claudine and Kathleen didn't know bout it till we reached there.. so we made a wasted trip there for nothing.. so we decided to go straight to some other road to shop!! hahahahaha we got approached by a syndicate member and it was dang cool.. he brought us to this shop where they sold fake shoes and clothes etc.. they even offered some of the rest some drugs!! lol.. we did a lot of bargaining.. for the shoes..not the drugs or the condoms.. XD TzeYang was looking at this shoe which they were selling for RMB 400? He was like can give me a price with only 2 digits? Bad bargaining.. so i stepped in and offered a last price of RMB 100.. they were like no, we can't cover our costs and etc.. so i had to pull TzeYang out of the store when they didn't give us our price of RMB 100.. finally the guy came running over and was like "okay how bout this, RMB120 is the lowest i can go.." I was like "oh he only brought RMB 100 with him.. how can he pay RMB 120?" So we were about to go off when he was like "okay..okay.. i break the rule for u students.. RMB 100" So yay!!! VICTORY!! hahahahahhaa i love bargaining!!! :D So TzeYang saved a lot buying that shoe!!!
wheew.. then we headed for dinner.. had MacDonald's which is dang cheap!! i ordered Big Mac meal and it was like RMB 16? yeps.. SGD 3+ dang cheap!! After meeting up with the rest, we headed back to the hotel for debriefing again!!
After debriefing, it was time for BOWLING!!! hahahahahha this time we played in pairs.. so i was teamed with Justin.. hahahahhaha we got 2nd or 3rd out of 4 teams.. dang.. hahahaha after the team game, we played individuals and i scored the highest score!!! hahahahahha the score could have been higher but i let alex bowled the last shot for me.. and it went into the gutter.. hahahaha nvm..
Then it was bed time!! hahahahha Yiwen and i took a few pictures in our room with me in my acquired SJI track jacket.. hahahaha i call it a joint venture between me and George.. hahahaha so his jacket became mine for a few days.. hahahahhahah thanks George!!
Day 6 below..
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