WARNING: LOOOOOOOONGG POST =]
hmmm... yea i noe i should've updated this AGES ago but tt time i didn't have a blog so yea i shall post the Yunan trip we had during nov 07.. =D the sight while the plane was in the air and the in the midst of the whole trip was jus simply GORGEOUS beyond descriptions ok!! it's those sights where u'll jus think to urself.. wow.. it's really jus wow.. nth else to really express out tt feeling.. okayyy... based on my rusty memory i'll jus try to rmb wat we did from day 1 to day 7 la hor.. X]


~Day 1~
we were off the plane and were actually supposed to go to sight-seeing first.. to see the famous jade dragon snow mountain but den.. hmm.. i forgot why but the teachers made us go to do CIP first.. oh ya.. this trip is for CIP de but nonetheless still super fun! hahax.. we were supposed to go help the little children at Jin Shan Xiang (金山乡小学) to paint a library.. (when we first walked toward the school, it was quite a long walk but when we were like less den 30m away from the school hor, could alr hear the little kids shouting “欢迎欢迎，热烈欢迎！！” all over and over till all of us was inside the school and the principal told them to assemble!! =0!) we oso taught them English which honestly i thought was eh-heh.. a little useless la... hehe.. BUT they did learn smth lo!! they learnt APPLE and ZEBRA ok!! at least i think they learnt it from us.... nobody had wanted to go up to the front to teach so being the -ahem- bravado and children lover i am, i jus went up and started talkin lo.. introducing myself and the other "teachers" LOL! i rmb jing wei was called 小蓝 cos he had his fringe dyed blue like aaron's at prom.. hahax.. den started talkin bout Singapore's history.. blah blah blah and den gave them a quiz.. lol! most of them ended wid right answers after a little prompting.. there was a girl in blu always raising her hand first and wanting to answer.. hahax.. and i think she is the one who's always top in class ba.. cos she seems to noe the answers and pronounce it qutie well! =D den hor!! we played 老鹰捉小鸡 wid them and u noe wat?? the altitude was so high tt i was gasping for breath in apx 5 mins.... couldn't tahan but the kids still so happy laughing..... lol.. they'd make great runners....


~Day 2~
Day 2 aka nov 14 we went to the school again, this time they learnt to make ballon animals!! hahax.. they all looked so happy to receive gifts from us lo! X] OH OH!! i rmb!! there was this little guy! HAHAHAHA! he clung to Xinyan everytime and he's VIOLENT!! hahax.. he'll bite and he'll kick and he'll punch and everyone steered cleared of him except Xinyan who tolerated his behaviour and played wid him.. hahax! it's really funny to see them play tgt lo! XD!! had them to do a little grp discussion inenglish and den we went to visit some kids' houses.. they grew their own apples and won corns and ohters and hor! if u're wondering why there're so many corn they have outside their house aka below.....
it's cos they use it to create fire so they can cook... they dun have gas, they dun have electricity so u could imagine the whole village at night.. cold... dark and super eerie.... their school also was very shabby and the toilets.... the toilets were jus two cubicles, if i nv rmb wrongly is doesnt have girls or guys' toilets, jus 2 cubicles.. and the stench.... cos their "waste products" jus go into the the hole tt they'd dug.. no flush system nor even a pot chamber... so it's quite saddening to see tt these children are actually smiling at the camera so happily despite their circumstances..

this water buffalo hoR!!! isn't this small as it seems de u noe!!!!!!! IT'S HUGE/HUMONGOUS!! REALLY!!!!! it's head is easily twice or 2 1/2 sizes more den mine!!! *shivers at the tot of the buffalo's size.....

i jus love these above 2 pictures.. i dunno why.. i think they look like classic history photos.. MUAHAHAHAHA! i'm jus praising my own work! =D BUUT!! they do look nice right???? X]


~Day 3~
hmm.. this day was the last day of the CIP and we painted their library!! =D BACK BREAKING work u noe???? hahax.. had to squat and paint the little animals for like HOURS and HOURS and we nid to rush lehh!! cos scared not enough time... some of the ppl went to the assembly square to bring a special performance of "Reach out for the Stars" for the little kids.. yes the National song.. lol.. while others including me were painting! my gosh.. the leg after squattin was like 麻痹!!!!!! SUPER SUPER PAIN!! hahax.. but look at our fruit of labour! =D
hehe.. a super cute library was born!! =D I painted the grey bear bear and brown chipmunk/squirrel and a little of the tree trunk (if i rmb correctly) in the first pic and it took like 2 1/2 hr or 3hr to finsh u noe!! hahax.. but it was cute la and worth it.. X]
in the night we were allowed to shop a little and i think i nearly lost my camera at this point! hahahaha!! wellll... u noe how forgetful i am and when we were eating*** i somehow left the camera on the table (or chair) andforgot to take it wid me.. the restaurant was quite pretty la.. lol so i guess i was distracted liddat lo.. hahahahaha!! but we still got it back in the end cos the restaurant ppl called one of the teachers and i oni found out till them.. heex..... =D
***: the food there were mostly too oily and saltish (ewwww) and we always didn't finish them.. 7 torturous days of disgusting food and i begged my mom to cook my favourite stuffs when i got home and even went to buy the ingredients for her when she was too busy.. tt was how bad it was......

~Day 4~
whee~ 3 more days to go den we'll be home! hahax..
this day was oso the start of SUPER breathtaking scenaries!!!!!!! think WOAHH! we went to see jade dragon snow mountain and a lake which i really really cnt rmb the name.. hahax.. but i noe the lake changes colours in different seasons because of the minerals tt's washed into it.. we sat a cable car which goes REALLY REALLY FREAKING high!! and some more hor!! it's not like Singapore's cable cars which are covered with windows de lehh... it's like they take out the windows so u can really feel the wind blowing in ur face which makes u f-ing cold!! den ur face will be like frozen la!! and u'd be so afraid of ur stuffs falling down lo! cos the sides are like damn low for smth tt goes so high up la! the rails where u hold on to hor, is oni up to my elbows or slightly higher when i sit down!! buuut.. i have to admit the scenary is beautiful and there's clouds or haze i couldn't rmb but it was jus sort of misty misty de.. very pretty!! but too much of it is un-pretty cos it blocks every view.... >:(

~Day 5~
2 more days to go!! =D we went to see this rock called tiger leaping gouge.. legend says tt a tiger used this rock to escape from a hunter and leapt from a very high cliff..
oh oh! and we went to this Zhang tribe's house.. hmm.. maybe it's Mongolian but i'm not very sure and we learnt some pretty interesting chants tt we were supposed to chant at the house, be it to drink a cup of wine... (which tasted pretty-_-) or to cheer the dancers on! =D i so regretted to video it down (it seemed pretty nice to video it down at tt time... T~T) cos now i can't find it and since after recording it down the battery went flat i oni had 1 miserable picture....



~Day 6 and 7~
was the day the battery went flat so no more pictures.... but it was basically just shopping and more shopping.. =D den it was back to home sweet home.. hahaha!!