Jonathan(Shandong trip- Day5)

It was time to go to Chifu school this particular morning. When we arrived, we were greeted by students holding banners saying, "Welcome all Christ Church students to our school for student exchange programme". We took a picture before being broken up in our groups for classes with the Secondary 1 there. For my group,our first lesson was Chinese literature where we learnt how to describe spring and autumn using famous phrases. I could only understand like 20% of what is taught as their Chinese is very good. Next, we had P.E lesson which was typically like those in Singapore. We learnt basic self-defence moves there.

After this, we had the China Sec 1 students asking for signatures from us. Most students even exchanged information about Shandong with me. To my surprise, when I offered to share the coins I brought from Singapore to them, they just politely rejected and even offered many One-dollar notes with me. Then, we proceeded for lunch,and I felt it was not as good as what we had in the previous school.

After lunch, we were taught how to sing "Welcome to Beijing", the official Beijing Olympic song. It was difficult to master this as the words were not very matching to the tune, so it sounded a bit funny. Then, Rachel and Jerome played the piano,and I would say they are really good.

Next, we went to see the basketball match. I did not really know the result as I was doing Monkey bars and jumping jacks during the match somewhere else. Anyway, the match ended in a peaceful manner and we headed to Tai An, where we will be climbing Tai Shan on the very next day. Dinner was pretty alright and then we went to our rooms. At the middle of my packing, Hwee yang needed my toilet as he and Harrison somehow jammed the toilet bowl in their room. Me and Siravich then spent the whole time packing and playing card games. Soon, both of us fell asleep, hoping to be able to climb up Tai Shan in 3-4 hours.