Day 40 - Shopping around Yellow Crane Tower.

So today, we met early and head out to the area around Yellow Crane Tower for lunch and shopping while others went to Grand Ocean.

The street that we shopped on was called Wuchang’s 解放路. We were introduced to this place as part of the tourist shopping belt. Decided to head down and take a look at it.

After reaching, we had lunch at 首义园小吃街.

Previously when we first came here, we only had less than an hour to try the food. But this time, we had plenty of time to slowly take our lunch.

xiao long baos again~

Straight after lunch, we headed to the shopping area. But to my dissapointment, there was only a handful of shops which does not even suit us. The transportation fee was quite expensive thus some of us was quite sad that it was not as what we expected.

But still we didn’t give up. Decided to go in search of better shopping streets. Thus, we walked around and navigated our way from one street to another. And YES! We found a whole stretch of shopping stores.

Due to the farewell dinner at 6pm, we had to end our shopping at around 4.30pm so we had sufficient time to travel back to school. This time, we took another van which brought us to the wrong campus and they seriously didn’t know where they were heading to. We were quite worried. Luckily he manage to find his way back and we were just in time for the farewell dinner.
Our farewell dinner was side by side with the wedding banquet. So it was quite weird.

Farewell dinner with wedding beside us.

Photo with Dr Tan! =D

Reflection:

During the farewell dinner, the China student leaders gave us a copy of our group photo with best wishes written to us. Was quite surprised that they actually prepared a group gift for us. On our side, we also gave Singapore souvenirs to each of the student leaders to express our appreciation for their hard work. After dinner, another China student leader Liu Li came down specially to give me a small gift. Was quite touched. Through this, I can see that friends to them are very valuable. They will not hold back when showing care and concern to friends. Unlike singapore teenagers who are less mature, a little action such as a simple hug could lead to immature fiery comments and so because of this, we seldom show affection to our friends and would not open up as easily to strangers. This is one thing which we can learn from them. The way they treat people.

xanier!