Hello Beijing!

2010 Winter
Our 8 days educational trip went to Beijing. A city with modern and traditional buildings. On these days, we visited every tourists' spots that are extremely popular. I won't list them all because I don't know the exact English of them. I'll just name a few. For example, Summer Palace (頤和園), Old Summer Palace (圓明園), Palace Museum (故宮), National Aquatics Center (水立方), the Great Wall, and anything you could think of.

There are too many pictures to show you, so I picked the ones I like the most. We had a lot of fun there. :-) We took silly pictures, fooling around which made our teacher really angry, and danced on the Great Wall! We screamed in our hotel rooms and even practiced dancing in the lobby! You may ask "Why practice dancing?" That's another activity I'm going to talk about.

Except the spetacular scenes, we had done something really special that normal people wouldn't have the chance. We went to a senior high school in Beijing called 海淀實驗中學 and got into their classes to take courses with them! Before all of us became classmates, we had a small party. That's why we had to prepare performances. We also played games. It was a lot of fun!


                        

Most people had been mislead by the government that people in China are our enemies. However, this trip has made me realize their hospitality and their enviness to Taiwan's creativity and freedom. To tell the truth, they are just a bunch of happy students. Just like us! The only difference between us was the accent.

Beside all of the above, food, was also an incredible experience. The dumplings from 百餃園, the ducks from 全聚德, etc. The best meal in these days, I think the honor goes to a restaurant called 老舍茶館. The delicacies tasted wonderful and their show was amazing! Face-changing! 變臉 in Chinese. The skill was unbelievable and we were the only crowd that gave them not only applause but also scream.

Too many fun things to talk about! I don't think I have the energy to tell you more. Maybe I will say about other experiences in the nest post. I will just stop here for this time. Hope all of you enjoy my good old time! :-)

The First Misson From My Class

What's so special for us, the language advanced class?
There are only 30 students in our class and we have abundant activities which other students can never think of.

We have a topic for every semester, and there will be a speech every Friday which is related to our topic. And in the first semester, our topic was about "Fashion". Except speeches for fashion cultures all over the world, our teacher gave us a difficult assignment, an exhibition of fashion!

For weeks, we had stayed late in school painting, writing, coloring, and decorating. About a month, we finished everything and looked at our colorful work, and we all felt a sense of acheivement. :-)
In our exhibition, we showed our worksheets from the speeches, colorful painted chairs, hand made
dress, and of course, a fashion runway!

 Although it had been extremely tiring and we really hated that our teacher gave us such an exhausting homework, everytime I recall the memories, I realize that the most important part was not the sufferings but the lovely times with my friends and the experiences I learnt from it.

These are something that we can never learn form textbooks and tests. So how can I forget?