Woken up by Jenny this morning at 7:00 which was not good at all, but the one good thing this meant was ti me for breakfast, our first in china. Breakfast was very interesting this morning, spreading jam on bread with chopsticks and dough balls with pork in them. Soon after breakfast we had our opening ceremony with was slightly boring but it had to be done. The British embassy and the head teacher of the high school talked to us about our stay here in china. Also in the opening ceremony we had the chance to meet our hosts in china and all the other students here. My hosts name is Zheng Qing Ying, she is very nice and we look forward to our home visit.
Next came lunch, this was a feast. We all filled our trays up with the likes of chicken and peanuts, rice, beef and vegetables and the most commonly known to us chips and tomato sauce. Everyone seemed to by pass the pigs elbow though (I wonder why). After lunch we had our test to see how well or in our case how bad we are at Mandarin. We had a self evaluation to fill in along with and oral test. Both were ok and we got put into our classes. Yes, we are in the very beginners class but we are all together with is the good thing. After this the ten of us took a mission to the supermarket (which still half of us never got to), and the shopping centre where we found lots of shops and coffee shops. There was one slight thing that made us feel a little bit awkward, everyone that passed us stared and some even laughed! But our mission was successful and we shall return at some point of our trip.
For dinner all of the students went out to a lovely restaurant about a 40 minutes drive away from campus. The food was great we had one of the swirly things in the middle of the table which we had lots of fun with. We had way too much food but we were showed how to make roasted duck pancakes after being shown how to slice the duck with style. After our meal, Jenny and I took an adventure to the toilets just to see what they were like, here we met Miss Pallut, the toilets got a 5 out of 10. At
8:30
we all piled back on the buses to come back to campus. We arrived safely and went to the basic shop on the site, Jenny and Mrs McCulloch bargained for 4 bottles of water. After all our excitement for the day we are all heading to bed nice and early, we are looking forward to martial arts tomorrow. Night night
Charlotte
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For more photos see the link on the right side to GGS China Day 2
Everyone at dinner
Peking duck
English and chinese students
Inside supermarket
Jenny & duck
Here a snippet from the opening ceremony and you will understand just how hard it is to understand people here - both in English and chinese!
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