Long and busyyyyy day! We had to wake up at like 7am and prepare ourselves for the long day that was awaiting us! It was the city tour day and we went to places such as the West lake, Hubei Provincial museum, Yellow crane tower and Han street, a shopping district! Reporting time was at 8am! Quite early compared to the past few days where our lessons could start at 9.30am or 10am. The day went pretty well though! With the exception of some extra people joining us~

We proceeded on to take a coach to continue our day! First stop was to the West lake! A nice and relaxing lake and park. We can even rent mini boats out the the lake, but we didn't cause our teacher told us not. Walked around, took the videos and photos for our project. Quite a place with tranquility, to be honest, I'm surprised that a place like this even existed in Wuhan due to the face that up to yesterday, where we went, we were almost always greeted with concrete or dead trees or piles of rubber and dirt, there are literally not much greenery that exists in Wuhan. So this place was really an out of the usual experience for my life in Wuhan!







Went over to the Hubei Provincial Museum afterwards, it wasn't so nice with our coach hogging up our time there and we were only left with half an hour to 50 minutes the place. Walk around and took photos and videos for our project again. Didn't manage to venture and visit all the exhibitions due to the lack of time, but it was still an enriching experience though, learning about the Marquis Yi of Zeng, who he was, the artifacts buried with him, the discovery of his tomb. We also learned about the jewellery "Dragon-Phoenix pendent ornament in 16 parts", the bells and also saw the weapons and armors that were buried with him! The design of the museum was quite astounding too. You will never ever get to see this type of design in Singapore due to the land scarce! The history of Marquis Yi of Zeng is quite interesting too, like how he had over 20 women who were his wife and concubine and maids and a dog poisoned and buried together with him. The youngest was only 13! And we could see which one was his favorite through the amount of jewellery that was buried with each of them.


Went for lunch after the museum trip! Had lunch at a hotel, and it just so happened that a couple was having their wedding lunch too! Yes, in Wuhan or maybe the whole of china, they don't do wedding dinner, they have wedding lunch instead of dinner! So we happen to see the bride and bridegroom walking into the hotel. Lunch was quite nice. The food had more variety - namely fish, beef, chicken, beef, chicken in a warp, soup and assorted vegetables! All the meals look about the same if you ask me, just that the way of cooking or the type of vegetables used is different, thats all! We also ate the "dessert" which is actually glutinous rice balls with meat inside! Damn nice, the meat is juicy and tender and the rice is cooked just right!


We moved onto the yellow crane tower after that!~ Had to take a 20 minutes walk up to the tower! Quite a nice and fun walk though, with tons of pavillions along the way! Photo-op anyone? :3 Reached the yellow crane tower pretty fast! The walking and climbing doesn't end there though, we had to climb up a 9-story distance in order to reach the top of the tower!! Met some koreans on the top of the tower and took a photo with them!! Took some photos for videos for our project again!! Left the tower pretty quickly though, due to the lack of time. Overall still quite a nice place to be! Only hated the climbing up part and the rush for time! Seriously, I mean, if we're going for such a rushed tour, we might as well go ourselves! Anyway had a bit of hiccup when we were going to leave the place, 4 of our groupmates went missing! And our teachers had to go look for them, they were found about 10 minutes later though, so its not so bad!

Went to our last destination for the day~ Han street! Its a very pretty street that was designed to look like an europe street if I was correct. A very pretty and nice place, doesn't look at China at all! Really! A lot of nice shops too, their local brands and international brands! Brands like Pull and Bear and H&M also appeared~ Walked and shopped around a bit, saw a shirt that I liked at P&B so I bought it! RMB$99, about S$20. Quite okay I guess. Went to ate Haagen Daz too!! RMB$30 for one scoop in a cup! Comparable to the prices in SG if I'm correct! Some of the stuffs here are not really that much cheaper, especially the branded goods, they're mostly selling at SRP. Saw quite a lot of "interesting sights" too, like people letting their children pee into dustbins or even just peeing by the side of the road! But otherwise, it was a pretty nice experience and place to go if you just want to shop or enjoy a cup of coffee, the streets are pretty clean, definitely cleaner than the other usual streets.

Overall what I feel about china so far is that, when it gets dark, its dark. There's a very small transition period between daylight and night. Probably about 10 minutes! After 10 minutes, its dark. The temperature fluctuates a lot too, I experienced it today when the weather went super hot during the yellow crane tower visit, and the blue sky came out!!! But it suddenly dipped after the Han street visit, making it super cold again! The food there is also quite standard, though I can't deny some of them are really nice! One of the things I noticed is that all of the rice are always served in tubs! Yes, tubs! Not bowl by bowl but tubs! And that Wuhan's food are always damn spicy and hot, I learned from my china friend that its because most of Wuhan people like to eat spicy food! Thats why most of the food are spicy!

Alright~ Shall update to here for today! Will upload more photos when the connections allow me to!

Tata~

~holychef~