Today
is day sixteen. We had our IS lecture in the morning. It lasted for 3hours with
breaks in between. It was interesting as I like the history of China. However
it was quite dry that I nearly fall asleep halfway. In the afternoon, I went to
the supermarkets with the student leaders to buy food for the BBQ at night! I
wanted to buy sotong sticks but it was not fresh. We bought the meat like
chicken wings, lamb and beef skewers as well as the drinks. We met each other
at 2 where we go for a sports activity.
We come to this place and see the rocks
for rock climbing. We then know we had to do rock climbing. We had a warm up
game first with the two game planners. After which we were separated into two
groups, where we have to think of the team name, team slogan, team logo and
team song. My team was Rou-Lee MiJit which is the names of our lecturer. We had
a fire for our logo; a NP slogan of ‘there is always something EXTRA’ and a
team song of Roly Poly from the Korean-pop where we replaced the lyrics with
our team name. We had another game where the other team is doing rock climbing.
Our game is by finding the number in sequence using the picture. For example,
dad in Chinese has the same sound as eight in Chinese so dad represents the
number 8. Some of the pictures are of Chinese culture and some are related to
the things around us.
After which we swapped with the other team to go for the
rock climbing. I was the first girl to go for the rock climbing as I have to demo
on how to wear the safety gears. It was adventurous and slippery as there was a
lot of mud on the stones that were left behind by the other team. Many of us
tried including the lecturers, we cheered for all of them and enjoyed the whole
event. We also had a small competition between the two teams of accomplishing
three tasks in 150seconds. The first task is to bounce the ball on the drum 8
times, second is the holding of poles and changing it 10 times with only one
hand and last is using the pipes to build a pathway for the ball to reach the
pail in a few meters away. Although we lost the competition, it was still a
great time spending with the friends and lecturers.
We would have BBQ at night
which my friends and I went to the street shops to buy some snacks as we feared
that the BBQ would not have enough food for us. We went back to the same place
for BBQ and interact with the local students. They tried to speak English with
us, making us feel comfortable by treating us well as a host. They also prepare
all the food for us and did not want our help as we are the guest. It was kind
of them but many of them were doing it the first time and had no experience.
They took a long time to start fire and even use gasoline to start the fire.
The gasoline worked for a while but did not burn the charcoal so they tried
using dried leaves with paper to burn. The fire was up and they started to cook
the food. However, there were ashes flying around as of the papers burned and
we were not daring to eat the food. Seeing them doing so much work and did not
want us to help, we tried to express our thanks by eating the food although
half of it was uncooked. We tried the skewer and chicken wings. It was salty as
it is a part of their culture to eat so salty and oily.
In Singapore, we tried
BBQ for countless times and always know that there would not be enough food to
eat as BBQ is just enjoying the process of it and the bonding times with your
friends which is very different in China. Many of us left early as we want to
study for the Common test the next morning. We felt bad but we have to choose
study over food. J
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