Emotions are brimming, heaven is pouring. Will you make it through the rain?

At chengdu airport, we prepared to check in for our flight. it was quite late when we reached the airport, thus we had to rush like mad.

Flight CA4201 to Xi'an

haha! we boarded the plane like only a few minutes b4 the flight. ya. this time round, i gt window seat again and i did not change my place. 1hr+. beside christofle like the first flight, just that i change my seat during the first flight. Fu lao shi was sitting next to christofle. chatted abit and then reach liao cause the flight only 1 hour 10 min. just before the plane landed, we started putting on face moisturizer, hand moisturizer, coats and also lip balm to prepare ourselves for the dry and cold weather. both of us even went to the extent of putting on gloves even before we get down the plane. Yes. and then we reached Xi'an.

Xi'an Airport

it was real cold there, like 6°c, so our preparation did help after all ya? went to get our baggages and then was well-received by the people there. walked to the coach and on the way there, noticed bazhang's luggage. look like those used for putting corpse when people are murdered in movies. joked that he killed someone. haha! after that boarded the coach, and off to hotel. on the way to hotel, was introduced to liu lao shi (qing hua ke ji yuan coordinator) and xiao meng jiejie (tour guide), they are super nice peeps i must say! friendly and caring! =D

reached the hotel, checked out our own rooms, checked out other people's room. WAH LAU! nt fair.. my room super small compared to others la! 1 small window, no wardrobe! !!! worst!! corner unit, 90° left is the teacher's room. talk abit only also say we noisy.. -.-" so most of the nites qimei and i will be at other people's room till bedtime. haha! enough complaining bout the room. 6o'clock, we need to go down to the meeting room of the hotel for the welcoming ceremony. waited for a while, mr koh came in, chatted with the chinese OUAP people first. talked bout how to be successful and all. waited for the econs group too. after bout 20 to 30 min they reached. and the ceremony started. speeches, signing of contracts and then end of ceremony. haha! no pictures for that cause no one i knew took pictures? ya. nth much also la. just signing of contract and speeches.

after the ceremony, went for our dinner. our group sat together again. okok, our group sat together for ALL MEALS. yup.. the food was served and our group did a yum seng. haha! i think we had super long breath. after our yum seng, group C followed and did gan bei! haha~ like mad.. after that eat abit, yum seng again.. eat again then mr koh join our table and we did our yum seng with him! haha! so its like we yum seng dunno how many times? haha! okok.. the food was ok la.. but we could not finish it.. so we began to play zhong ji mi ma, and then, we had the birth of the capsicum brothers. haha! then after our meal, we went upstairs, put on coats, get money, and went shopping again! haha! nth special on the streets and in the shopping mall.. so no pictures again! lol! the CDs there really super cheap. ok la.. not only CDs, every other things also cheap. but first nite there only, so we din really buy alot of things, just some daily nesscessities, supper for our next few days. suppose to be back at the hotel at 10pm, so we went back around 9+ after buying our things. reached hotel, took a bath, then went to hoho's room for supper. the 4 of us ate cup noodles, after that 12+ went back to room.. fell asleep at 1+! end of day 2!

Day 3.
woke up in the morning, had breakfast, then headed to 'Xi Bei Da Xue' its a university in Xi'an. quite famous i think. went there for our very first lesson of the OUAP trip.

Qimei and I before the start of the lesson.

Zhenhui, niao and hoho.

the lesson was conducted by Professor Yang Xi Yi. old man around the age of 50+ i think. he taught us on the history of Qin Shi Huang and also the Han dynasty. for 1.5 hours, he talked and scribbled on the black board during the lesson. we could understand the lesson well i think, cause he speaks really SLOWLY. many dozed off i think. sat first row, so can't sleep. the lesson quite interesting la. was dilligently copying notes for the first half. 2nd half, din really copy alot of notes liao, since so many people also din copy. haha! ya.. after the lesson, had group photo-taking, then went for lunch at a canteen in the university. the meal was served in buffet style, the food was ok la. but dun seem very appealing to me, so i took abit loh. finish lunching, then we toured around the university, saw many table tennis tables courts etc. people playing sports. just some random people in the sch also play till so well la! no wonder they gt such a large pool of talents. walked around and there is a statue of kong2 zi3.

this is the statue of kong zi. kong zi is well known for his thinking i think. see that guy studying beside the statue? so funny la, all of us think that he must have thought that studying beside kong zi will help him ace everything. haha! ok people, wanna score, study beside kongzi. i think it will work. haha! if u want, u can print this picture and worship it before any exams ya? =D i do pray to kong zi before major exams too!

continued walking and taking pictures.

Qimei, Me and hoho.

Beloved Group B at Xi Bei Da Xue

took whole group photo, then after that saw this really cute little toddler somewhere near the entrance of the university.

see.. very cute rite? omg, hoho.. u lose liao.. dun sad.. u are still cute! LOL!! after leaving Xi Bei Da Xue, we went to a museum called 'Shan Xi Li Shi Bo Wu Guan '. initially quite ok la.. the museum had super random things, all on history of different tribes etc. listen to xiao meng jiejie, but it gt very boring soon and qimei, zhenhui, siangmeng and me ran away. ok la.. teacher say can one. haha. teachers themselves also nt listening la! lol.. instead of listening to xiaomeng, we chatted bout our own stuffs then after that went to walk around the museum. took some pictures and then went to the cafe downstairs to slack. meeting time was supposed o be 5pm. we arrived on time only to found out that quite a few of them nt there yet. they are still looking at the exhibits and listening to the talks from xiaomeng. SM went upstairs to find them. after a while, they came down and then we went back to hotel for our dinner.

Day 4.
after having our breakfast, we went to 'Jiao Da Er Fu Zhong' for our lesson. on that day, we learnt about Zhong1 Guo2 Feng1 Jian4 She4 Hui4 Ding3 Sheng4 Shi2 Qi1. learnt bout people like Wu3 Zhe2 Tian, Tang2 Tai4 Zhong1. the emperors of this 2 dynasties. learnt bout that contributions to the country and all. the lesson that day, to me, quite boring la.. haha. the only part that was fantastic was the break. Y? because we were served super delicious KFC egg tarts!! super nice ok?? singapore's KFC dun have la. i think even if have maybe also nt that nice?? no wonder papa tell me that the egg tarts at KFC is super nice even b4 i go. but i think compared to the market price of other egg tarts in Xián, it is considered very expensive ba. cause u dun normally see people from china eating the egg tarts or buying them. after eating the egg tarts, the second part of the lesson seem better le. haha! ya. then we went for lunch in the canteen after the lesson. the food was quite nice, but the serving was too large. i had to ask the chef to cut down the quantity to half. after halving, i still could nt finish the food. LOL. ya. then soon, many of the sch's students came for lunch too. their serving was even much LARGER than us. and most of the girls and finish it. OMG! they eat so much still not fat.. envy siah.. haiyo.. ok la.. think maybe they exercise alot also. maybe go to sch must climb 2 mountains then can reach.

then after lunch, we had to sit in for their lesson. we were split into 2 groups. so my batch went to attend history lesson. i sat beside a girl called yu qian. quite nice and friendly. one year older than us. very pretty girl and also, the teacher there teach really well. though his speed is super fast and we cannot really catch wat he say. nvm la, we nt having exams on wat he is teaching. haha.

Yuqian and I

after one hour of history lesson was literature. learned something called Deng1 Gao1. and a few poems. the teacher teach super well too. and at moderate pace. but too bad, i not really interested in chinese poems. LOL. like history more. the people in that class is super enthu. the way the students response to the teachers is so different from Singapore. after literature lesson, we had a cultural exchange with the people there. performed for them and they performed for us. their perfrmance was superb. with lots of instruments and singing.. gt piano and violin duet, piano solo, Gu zheng, saxophone etc. and they played super well. felt so bad cause we only sing songs, sing songs, and sing songs. haha! and we prepared super lao ya presents for them. they, on the otherhand, prepared super nice gifts for us. after leaving the sch, we headed to 'Yong Ming Dian' to eat a kind of mian called 'Shao Zi Mian'. on the way there, xiaomeng told us about the story that led to the creation of this noodle. after that, we reached the place.

The shop

the food.. erm... was nt very nice la. so we din really eat alot. and econs group gt people birthday, so we celebrated her birthday tgt at the restaurant. and was given some cake. nice. the cake was the best part of the meal. the rest of the food, i seriously gt nth to say. haha.

The food we ate.

after dinner, headed back to hotel again. and then had a short lesson taught by Fu Lao Shi. he gave us a short introduction on the formation of republic of China. then its back to usual nite stuffs, bathe, played and went crazy with the people. haha! end of day 4!

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