After the electricity was restored at 10am in the morning, there was another blackout at 12pm! This time round, it affected the whole school and even the stalls outside our school! Seriously though i may be contradicting my previous post, i think it is very frustrating to keep having blackouts! Wuhan should really find a solution to this as it may affect the country's economy. Imgaine if there's no electricity, then the frozen food and other foods will all spoil. The shops would also have no light and then there will not be business for them. Lucky for me, i had already published all my works online and so i just went back to sleep at 12 noon since there's nothing else which i can do. But in this situation, my computer will definetely spoil because of the sudden shut downs. Also the voltage here is different from Singapore that's why i kept getting electric shocks from my laptop. Anyway, we went to class without fan, light and projector. We only survived on the remaining battery for our lecture. Luckily halfway through the lesson, the lights and fan came on. Which means that the blackout lasted for about 3 hours. I pray hard that there'll be no more next time. I can still tolerate the blackouts but my laptop might spoil soon if this happens again. Anyway, today was the only lesson we had without the projector:
I think the last time i was taught using a black board was when i was in lower primary. It's alright to me, but i pity the teacher as he had to dirty his hands to use the chalk and to clean the blackboard. After school we saw many people gathering at the gallery to look at something. And so we went to Kay-po as well.
They were having their national day parade today!
I think it was complusory for all the students to attend this parade. It is the same as in Singapore with all the uniform groups marching and the symphonic band playing.
All the army people packed their bags, ready to go home. After this national day, they will officially resume their normal student lives - studying. (It is complusory for all year 1 students to go through the army training for a period of time before official lessons begin. Lucky we don't have this system in Singapore otherwise all girls will also have to go through army life!)
After lessons we went to town again. Shopping and more shopping! This time, the place was decorated with lanterns though the decorations were meant for their national day. It looks as though they were celebrating mid-autumn festival instead. Nothing much happened today during our visit to the town except for the following incident.
We took a private bus back to school from town(7 person for 30Yuan. Quite reasonable.). Anyway, what happened was the driver wanted to look at our Singapore currency as he was interested in keeping foreign notes. And so my friend gave him S$2 to look at. Next, that person then wanted to trade yuan for the Sing dollars. S$2 for 8Yuan. So my friend closed one eye and traded with him. However, he then wanted to see out S$10. My friend showed him reluctantly and as expected, the guy didn't want to return the S$10 back to him. He said the S$10 can cover today's ride fee and one more future ride. But then again, how will we know if we really can see him in future? It was quite scary. After telling him to return the money for afew times, he then reluctanly gave the note back.
Moral of the story: Never show our currency to the locals. Don't trust anyone so willingly.
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