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Day 5
Tuesday
6th November 2007
Weather: Hazy
We visited the great wall today. We went to the MU TIAN YU section of the great wall. Climbed over a few hundred steps and for he first time, our school principal, Mdm Lee climbed up with us! Words of all sorts could not describe the scene up there. After that, we went back to school for some games. We learnt how to play the kong zhu. It's really fun and intresting to play. We went home early as our buddies are having their exams tomorrow.Moving to the hotel in 2 days time and for tomorrow, going to climb xiang shan and do CIP!
I still remembered 4 years ago, I came to beijing and climbed ba da ling section of the great wall. This time it is much more challening as we had to climb to the top of the mountain before stepping onto the great wall. For Ba Da Ling, you can start to climb the great wall once you arrive. As we are moving in a team, we had to help each other in a way or another. It was after much walking and climbing until we reached the the top of the hill. It can be said as a huge acomplishment as not many of us has walked this far before.
The journey back was quite a long distance and we stopped by a restaurant for lunch. We had a particular tribe theme lunch and it was really delicious. The restaurant was just right next to the Niao Chao ( the 2008 beijing olypics stadium). Did not get to take pictures as it was rather hazy. It is really wasted however, i suppose we would be brought there once more one day.
We proceeded back to school and had a little session of sharing of happenings and experiences. After that, we went to learn how to play kong zhu. The session was quite fun though. It i acctually quite easy to control the kong zhu and I even tried to throw it up in the air and for 2 times I managed to catch it!
Now back at home writing this reflection. I arrived at home at around 6pm and for the first time I took the taxi with daniel chia alone back home and I did it! Initially we wanted to go shopping however Mdm Yong asked us to go home and rest. However our buddies have already left so we took a taxi and arrived successfully back home!
New facts learnt:
Coke is more expensive than beer in china.
Beer is more expensive than coke in Singapore.
China's rice are small and round; just like little pearls.
Asian rice is long and thin.
Mu Tian Yu and Ba Da Ling are the more popular visiting sites for the great wall of china.
It has been 2200 years since the Great Wall was being built. (Emperor Qin Shi Huang)
In the rural provinces in China, you can remarry if your husband dies
However in the urban provinces like beijing, you cannot remarry if your husband dies as the population number is far too much already.
There are only two Wonders of the world that can be seen from space
1. Pyramids of egypt
2. Great wall of china
After chairman mao said " bu deng chang cheng fei hao han" everyone rushed to Beijing to see the Great Wall.
Fruit trees are grown at mu tian yu
Mu tian yu has the nicest scenery
More updates tomorrow!