Jonathan(Shandong trip- Day4)

We left Jinan that morning and headed for Chifu, which is Kong Zi"s(Confucius) birthplace and hometown. Firstly, we visited his house, which has been converted to a place of interest. We also learned about his life story at the same time. It is interesting to know that his parents found him a freak or something when he was born,so they dumped him in a cave. However, later they saw that the tiger fed him and the eagle fanned him when he felt hot. So, they decided to bring him home and take good care of him. He later became a very good scholar, and he served the emperor as a right-hand man.

After lunch, we went to the forest where he was buried after his death. It was nothing interesting. Then, we went to the temple built by his disciples. It was used at first as a memorial by his disciples, however, later it was used to worship him. People who visited this area would usually ask for good results from him. This was the area I liked most as it has some kind of value to me which I cannot explain.

Finishing this, we headed for our next hotel for accommodation before dinner. The hotel is slightly smaller compared to the first one, but it had more facilities. During dinner, some of us came down late. But, what was more interesting was that two girls pretended to go missing, thus delaying our dinner time by half an hour. Dinner to me was better than what we had at the restaurants outside.

Later, at night,we had to do reflection which was boring. The briefing for the next day was conducted, following some interrogation by the teachers for some students who were involved in this "disappearing" act. After this, we were asked to prepare for the next day's activities ,school exchange programme at Chifu Experimental School. It was an eventful day.