.EXPERIENCE.IN.WUHAN.

Today was a happening day! Thankfully we had the whole morning to sleep as we had nothing on and so we had the energy to last us till the night. Anyway, today we interacted with the local students by going to pluck oranges together and to have barbeque at night.

The orange plantation was about 15 minutes bus ride from the school. I’ve never been to an orange plantation before and so this is an eye-opening experience. The oranges here are still green in colour as I think it’s not in season here. According to the locals, it is safe to eat green oranges. So here are the pictures taken:

The entry of the plantation was so narrow that we had to step aside to let the car pass. It's as though the car belongs to some royal person

The green and hard oranges

My clever friend there brought his kite along but forgot about his string. Joke.

See his sad face. HAHA!

The guard dog there. It was very fierce and has extremely sharp teeth!

The green oranges are very sour. We plucked and eat on the way. Free for all. Haha. And so we went round plucking and eating in search of a sweet orange. However, not even one was found to be sweet.

Morning Glory

Soon after, this orange plantation became a battle field. We began to throw small oranges across the plants. Some of our "men" got hit by the "ammo"and when our ammunition went low, we got attacked. So we tried to make alliance with other groups. Nonsensical? But it's fun!

My platoon members.

I find this leaf very unique

Pomegranates! Oh ya, we only ate one of the 3 pomegranates which we had bought few days agao. We stood in our room eating and took turns spitting the seeds into one plastic bag. We have no intention to eat the other 2 as it was simply too troublesome to eat it.

"Baby" pumkin growing! A pretty sight. I wouldn't have known that pumkin grows this way if i didn't see this.

This fire was created by gathering dry leaves and twigs and then striking the dry twigs together. Interesting. This was demostrated to us by the local students

And then they tried to cook sweet potato with that. They tried it and claimed that it's nice. I didn't eat it as i don't like sweet potatoes.

The locals staying there were play cards. After seeing for awhile, i still don't get the game. It was different from what we play in Singapore.

The pumkin is very hard and sturdy and so i tried balancing on it. No matter how we jump on it, we cannot seem to open the pumkin. That's how strong it was.

The local students teaching us how to us that ancient weighing machine.

Back in our school. The army are training hard. They start to train at 6 and only stop around 11 at night. But since day 1 till now, we can see the change in them. They are now very neat and organised when marching.

And so around 5.30pm, we made our way to be barbeque area. It was about 5 minutes walk away from the school. And as u will see in the pictures below, their barbeque style is somewhat different from us.

Playground near the barbeque area. Look at their elephant slide!

Here's our barbeque area. No pits. So how do we start our fire and barbeque the food? Continue scrolling down...

We were bored while waiting for the local students to teach us what to do next.

Random picture. My beautiful manicure and pedicure. Haha!

The things needed for us to barbeque the food

Even the dry logs there are needed to start the fire.

Look at that tree at the back. The guys broke the branches off so that we will have dry twigs to start the fire

Dry grass... The locals gave us one bag of dry leaves as well..

We had to put all the dry leaves, twigs and grass inside that "box". And the charcoals are on the top shelf. What we do in Singapore is just to use a fire starter and some charcoal and we can start barbequeing. What i'm trying to say is that i feel that the dry stuffs should be put together with the charcoal isn't it? Why did they seperate the two?

Lots of smoke are produced and the smoke is very choking.

Only till 7 plus did we start to barbeque our food. Starting the fire was a very tedious process. You just have to experience it yourself to know how it's like.

End up we didn't eat anything from the barbeque as it seem..... Poisonous? Will we be at higher risk of getting cancer if we ate the food there? And the only meat available there was lamb meat. Weird huh? I though chicken or pork would be much cheaper. And the other food includes a whole variety of vegetables and mushrooms. And they use oil for their barbeque while in Singapore we use butter. So though i didn't eat anything from there, i gain much knowledge on how to start a fire and experiencing the different style of barbeque.

Overall today was a very fun day!