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Today we went shopping at Hankou. This is the second time my clique is going there so we sort of knew what we wanted to do over there. So anyway, our first stop today was at the Wuhan Beach. It was very windy this morning and so we saw many people selling kites and flying kites. There was this very cool kite which flew very high up into the sky. Anyway, my group of 6 friends bought a total of 9 kites. Lesson learnt from buying kites: We learnt how to bargain from the locals. But we weren’t daring enough as the tour guide we can try to get more discount. We should always start bargaining from half price then slowly increase. Will try that next time.
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So next we went to JiangHan Lu to do some shopping and have our nails done. We wanted to eat the Tang Bao again unfortunately the stall was beside some smelly tofu store. Up till now we still can’t stand the pungent smell of it. And nearby we saw a stall selling dog meat soup. I really can’t imagine people eating dog meat. It seems…… cruel. And I realized that in Wuhan, I don’t see any stray cats and I don’t really see birds around. But I do see stray dogs! I wonder why…..
On our way to JiangHan Lu:
Anyway, we settled in a Korean restaurant for lunch. They have great service as they literally barbequed everything we ordered for us. And we had all these for 42 yuan each. It was worth every penny spent. So basically we wasted time finding where to eat, finding where to have our nails done and even taking an EXTREMELY long time to decide on the design which we wanted. And by the time I was done with my manicure and pedicure, we were already late to meeting up with the whole group. I felt so guilty that everyone had to wait for me. I will have better time management next time. I promise.
We went to eat our fried rice again at the roadside stall for dinner. We never fail to buy fried rice from there ever since day 1 such that they always reserve seats for us to eat there. And I also tried the green bean drink from there. Finally I found a drink which was not diluted. In fact, it tastes great!
After dinner we went to the supermarket to buy fish food (Daniel bought me fish for me, will upload the photo next time), play pool again and then went back to our rooms to take our kites then we went kite flying in the school!
Kite Flying:
Unfortunately today was not windy so we tried to run up and down the slope to make the kite fly. These are the locals reponses:
“They are wearing slippers to run. Nonsense.”
“Today has no wind yet they are flying kites.”
“They have nothing better to do.”
“They are wearing slippers to run. Nonsense.”
“Today has no wind yet they are flying kites.”
“They have nothing better to do.”
But if you ignored all the comments, it was actually a fun experience as most of us seldom fly kites in Singapore. So we learnt how to tie our kites and how to fly kites from one another. We joked when the kites fall and get stuck on the tree and we helped one another to try to make the kites fly. We only gave up when we were tired of running up and down the slope. It was awfully tiring.
We then went back to the room and i had a shock - There was a huge spider on my bed and I was sitting beside it unknowingly! My goodness. Creepy crawlies always leave a psychological effect on me as I will keep feeling very itchy after that. Thankfully me friend helped me to flush the spider down the toilet. I hope that tonight the other spiders won’t come onto my bed when I’m sleeping. There are still some spiders on the ceiling!
4 hours of lessons tomorrow. I better rest early. Good night everyone! 5 more days till the release of exam results! Scary!
p.s. Photo credited to Brenda for the first half of the day as I forgot to bring my memory card out. Thank you, Brenda.
