Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Day 35 - Mde day out!

Day 35 started off early with us, MDE, going as a group to a Theme Park. We were all really tired but we still managed to drag ourselves out of our beds. The bus ride took about an hour before we reached our destination. Below are some pictures!

Mde on the bus!

When we got off the bus, we had to walk through a park first before we eventually arrived at the theme park. Along the way, we saw many locals sitting around and enjoying the morning breeze and doing their morning exercises or hobbies.

Chinese local doing chinese calligraphy on the floor We also passed by a hospital and to my horror i saw all the chemical wastes dumped right outside the hospital. No wonder sickness can spread so quickly in China.

After we reached the theme park, some of us went to sit the rides, while some didn't dare/want to ride. The rides were pretty fun, but its more of cheap thrill as it was not scary at all. But at least we did have some fun!

The few that went for the roller coaster Another ride we took :) Yet another cheap thrill. HAHA
(pictures not in order) But this is the completed chinese calligraphy done by the man earlier(above)
Map of the entire theme park! Not that big
The rollercoaster we sat :)
MDE GROUP PICTURE @ THE THEME PARK :)
After playing at the theme park, it was time to head to Hankou for lunch and shopping! As the walk was pretty long, we took a train there!

Buying the train ticket!
TADAH! Interesting train ticket. Just like a coin.
Here comes the train! We took it for 1 stop and arrived at Hankou
Hankou Shopping centre at last! We have arrived
After several hours of shopping, we went off for dinner. We took a boat at the jetty over to the other side where there was a lot of roadside stalls which sold delicious food!
Boarding the boat!

After we got off the boat, we had our dinner at the roadside stalls. Unhygienic, but very nice! After that we all took a bus back to our campus where we went to sleep early as we were all tired from a whole day of activities.

Thats all for today!

REFLECTIONS!
Today was a good and fun day! We took some time off studies to destress by having fun at the theme park followed by shopping! Also, the MDE students who went on this trip really bonded with each other once again, and its a good way to relax and take some time of our work load and hectic schedule which would come in when school reopens :(

Also, Singapore is really fortunate that we dispose chemical wastes properly so that no one catches any diseases in the process. Whereas in China, the just dump it in bins outside the hospital. This might cause disease such as SARS/H1n1 to spread very easily if it were to start in the area. Thank god for Singapore's good disposing of Chemical wastes :)

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