Mar 28, 2010

Today i woke up at 7.50am as we were told to meet at 8.30am for breakfast at the dining area. However, a girl from ECE knocked on my door at 8 telling me to meet for breakfast as there is a sudden time change yesterday whereby i'm not informed of it. I rushed to wash up and went to meet them for breakfast. Our group is those who are not climbing the mountain so we have 6 students including myself, Miss Neo, Mr Tan who is the ECE teacher and the tour guide who will be bringing us to 逍遥谷 to see a monkey performance. After breakfast we rest for a while and checked out our rooms and met at 9am. For our free time, i joined the ECE girls to a pavilion beside our hotel where we were told the view there was magnificent like 仙境. We took photos there and clouds surround us making it very foggy. After taking many pictures, we went back to the hotel lobby to meet Miss Neo and the others. We took a bus down to 逍遥谷 and walked to the monkey performance place. On our way, the view is beautiful and we saw people filming there. We saw people who 学道 from 武当山 filming. We took pictures of them as our backdrop as we made our way to our destination. We saw the monkeys and feed them with banana chips which the ECE girls brought along. They love the banana chips and went bananas. They called for more of their own kind to come down for food and we left when we saw the number of monkeys increasing and were worried they may attack us. We went to the stream and stepped on the rocks to take photos as it is very pretty. The tour guide lead us one by one on the rocks and helped us took a photo. After snapping, we walked out of the stream and one of the girls from ECE slipped and fell into the water. She drenched herself but luckily her valuables such as her camera and handphone did not get soaking wet.Our trip was shorten as we are worried she catch a cold from her wet clothes so we went to get her new shoes, towel and socks for her to change. On our way back, another of the ECE girl trip and fell on the bridge, face down. The impact was so loud that many turned to look at us and some were very inconsiderate and took pictures of her. No one helped her up and i hurried to ask whether she is hurt. She scrap her hand on the rusty metal bar and bled a little but nothing serious. A private bus was arranged for us as we feedback to the staff and we were transported back straight at the foot of our hotel. We sat at the hotel lobby and waited for the rest to make their way back from the mountain climb. The ECE people were the first to arrive back at the hotel. At around 1, all of the ECE people has arrived but our MDE people were not in sight. We started to panic and Miss Neo called Sihao i think to ask them where they are at. We waited till 3 and not the full body returned, only half so we did not wait for them and took a bus down the mountain and told the others to meet us straight at the foot of the mountain. The others were very very late and arrived to meet us at 3 plus 4 and our schedule was disrupted. The bus payment is also by hours so extra charges are incurred. Lunch was cut short and we were given 20mins to finish up or we will return to our hostel very late. We took a 5 hour bus ride without stopping much except for 1 rest station and we arrived at our hostel at 10pm. I bathe and blogged till 2am as there are no lessons for tomorrow as Miss Neo want to give us some rest after such a hectic day.

A bridge

I feel that today i should have tried my 100% best to save the ECE girl from falling into the water. Both the ECE girls who are injured are very close to me when they fell. To be exact they are just within my reach but i just could not save them in time. I learn to be considerate today when the ECE girls are injured i offered to take their belongings and show them concern on whether they are hurt in the process. My comfort level with stranger has also increased as i made friends with the ECE girls during breakfast and i did not feel uncomfortable with my new friends when i know nothing about them other than their names and their courses at first.

Posing with 老子

Imitating the poses of the people filming