10th September 2011 (5th day)

10^th September 2011 (5^th day)

Today programme is going to Botanical Garden at 8:00 am.

It is called the ‘Wuhan Botanical Garden Chinese Academy’. Over there, we looked at the flowers, trees, butterfly, grass, plants, pond, lake, birds, bridge, statue, fruits. And I took a lot of pictures that I can share with you guys.

Jacqueline, Huiqi, Alicia (:

Trees!

The air-con room that contain many types of plant species

Clique of friends.

Air- Pineapple

With the statue! lovely us, arent we?

  

At the end of the outing, I felt that this Botanic Garden in China is unique because there is indoor air-conditioning place for the plants and trees to grow. And there are structure like the bridge and caves that you can enjoy walking around. I like the whole place because it is extremely big and you can slowly explore different places, such as butterfly enclosure, kiwi garden, underwater garden and many more. There aren’t much people there also, so it’s good for relaxation and a great place for photography. Comparing it to Singapore Botanic garden, it’s different because in Singapore, mostly people go there for picnic but I saw none at China, or is it because that day it rains. And in Singapore, there isn’t so much trees and flowers nicely arranged compared to China. And the plants in China and Singapore are different because in China, they have 4 seasons whereas Singapore does not have. But the similar thing that both gardens have is butterfly enclosure.  Another point is that in Singapore, they have a stage for performance by concert band, singing or other events, mostly held on Sunday, but China do not have it.Anyway to enter to Singapore botanic garden you do not need to pay entrance fee unlike China’s one, unless you want to go into those special places like Butterfly enclosure.

Having break time, munching on snacks!

There are interesting plants that are:

And Mr.Wee fell down while walking and he cleaned his wound. Everyone should be careful while walking because there’s bridge and steep rocks. Anyway there is a incident that happened, it happened when the local Chinese teacher asked us to follow her, so we followed. And we walk and it is fine initially and till some point of time, the pathway starts to get muddy and worst, it get stickier. I could feel that my leg is being stuck there and require strength to pull my leg up. Some of the guys are helpful enough to hold the girls across the muddy pathway. And when everyone gets out, we can see under our shoe, there’s estimated 2cm of mud underneath it. Everyone was complaining but it is rather cool because we hardly experience it together. And we continue with the pathway, which lead us to the Underwater Submerged Plants place.

My dora shoe is super muddy!

After the outing, we went for lunch 武职南极冰餐厅 inside our school. Which is so called the “Fake KFC” and also they provide delivery to Haiyi Building, so we don’t have to wait and go back to our hostel and rest.

Me with nuggets & writing diary!

We had our dinner at our all-time-favourite stall which is situated across the street, have to walk through the tunnel. Ordered many ingredients and free flow of rice, total it cost 78RMB, $15.6 split among 11 people, which is $1.42 each. And drink our all-time-favourite too, 老王吉.

The menu

Fish & Tomato Egg

Beef and Toufu

Green Bean with Egg

Xiao Bai Cai with Ham

All time favourite drink!

We saw this couple hugging intimately and we decided to capture it down. In China, I don’t usually see this and I’m surprised to see it here. And both of them were behaving so close even though there is so much people, and they doesn’t seems to care. Comparing to Singapore, there is news that couples do that in library, garden, and void deck. Therefore I think this is a usual scene anywhere over the world. And thinking of that, guess the US and UK couples would be even worse.

Phew, that there is no stomp in China? If not there will surely be people who will upload it up to internet.

The couple who conducts wrongly at public

I also observed that there are students outside our campus singing every night and there’s a guitar bag for people to put in money. Apparently, I think they do this is to spend their time wisely, as they can release stress and earn money at the same time. But this kind of action is prohibited in Singapore, and Singaporean students will not dare to do this because everyone wants their pride.