Day28
had APPG as usual at 9am and 2pm in the afternoon. mr ma told us that chapeter seven is extra important and its going to come up for theory test 2. so i paid extra attention to whats hes teaching. im once again understood chapter seven but have little doubts. halfway through lab seven and then shall finish up on my miniproject. decided to do on Financial Planning. hope to get good grading on it. shall work hard on it even though its only 10%. going home soon in a few more weeks. cant wait.
we ate at kfc as usual. very routine dinner for us. there are very little places we can go for food that we enjoy. so kfc it is for now. the burger is nice and so is the sundae. so its alright although its rather expensive

Day27
woke up at early as we had to do clean up at the bbq pit area but i was told by wenhao that it was cancelled and class starts at 10am. so went back to sleep. then went to class and today we finished the whole of chapter six APPG. i find that its rather rushed but luckily i have an interest in programming so this stress that i have motivates me to do well, and surprisingly. i understand chapter six. halfway done through my lab six. should be able to complete it soon. tomorrow mr ma starting on chapter seven and its the end of APPG.

Day26
free and easy sunday. finally i woke up late for the first time. then my friends and all went to lu xiang plaza to accompany diyana buy her jansport bag which she has been grumbling all week. then walked around the place and peng hoe bought alot of things at COOLMAX. the prices were very reasonable because one bag he bought cost only 89yuan. then we went to eat at a sushi restaurant because we had vouchers from last time but then were told that the vouchers could only be used on weekdays. sad but we still decided to eat there. then i went to pick up my jeans at the laundry. put our stuff at dorm and then went to a bbq organised by the China students here. it started out as a surprised as we had to start a fire without firestarters but instead weeds and branches. a new and good experience which i can use the next time i go bbq if there are no firestarters. then i helped out to poke the food into satay sticks and we start barbequeing. most of us just sat around and talk with each other. i bbq-ed some of the food there and it was not bad. the bread with honey was surprisingly nice. then most of us who were stil hungry went to at a fishball restaurant opposite the bbq area. the food was surprisingly nice and the fishball was alright though it was as jelly as the previous time we ate at one of the restaurants here. then we went back to dorm for a good night sleep

Day 25
woke up slightly late than expected. rushed to meeting point which is infront of the school only to see that the bus has not even arrived. waited for the bus in the rain for around 30mins. i was freezing cold and only had my windbreaker to keep me warm. finally the bus came and we sat in the bus for around an hour and we reached Wuhan Beach Park at around hankou. due to heavy rain and a drastic drop of temperature, the tour guide told us to go to Jiang Han Bu Xing Jie. we ran in the rain and went to a fast food restaurant where they sell chicken rice surprisingly. i ate the chicken rice. it was alright. then we straight away went to buy an umbrella as it was still raining. we walked around and realised most of the shop sells branded things and they were rather expensive but nicholas bought two pair of jeans because hes rich. haha. then we slacked at starbucks and i bought cheesecake and signature hot chocolate. a refreshing feeling drinking a warm drink in the cold weather. we shopped around the mall and my friends and i bought ourselves playboy jackets. and we won ourselves a VERY small blue gem and a bottle of drinks. then we went to meet the others again. due to heavy rain and freezing temperature, we decided to go back to school. but some of us alighted halfway at around Yellow Crane tower and went shopping. i bought quite a lot of things such as shoes. then we ate at a fake KFC restaurant where they sell chicken but at cheaper prices and then cabbed back to school.

Day24
We woke up at around 8.30am, then we prepare all the things because today we are having an industrial visits. We took around 45 mins to 1 hour bus trip before we eventually reach the place, the place is called Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Limited. When we reach there, Mr chua say that we are not suppose to make noise or take photo when going in, except that we can take photo in the main hall. the main hall is quite spacious, it has lots of display and words. many thing describing the fiber things and the cable things. We was standing there listening to the people in charge there, his talking was quite okay, not very fast and he know a little bit of english, that is quite cool. he explain the fiber things to us and show us the thing on the display and tell us briefly about the process. after that the other group of people also came and listen to what the person-in-charge say, after awhile we walk into the place where we cannot take photo nor talk loudly. we watch a few video at there and then walk to another place watch video again. we also saw some people from outside the glass window doing the fiber things, we walk one round and went back to the main hall, upon reaching main hall, the guy talk more about the industrial stuff, about the cable and fibre things.

after that we went to take bus and go back to the school, after that, we had our lunch at the restaurant near our dorm, it taste quite okay. after that we went to have some dessert at KFC, we slack at there for awhile before we return to our dorm and rest, went to walk around buy things and stuff, after that we went back to class for our theory test. the classroom was full so some of us went up to have our test, the test was easy and yet difficult, many of the question i don know what to write then i anyhow write, then after the test we went back to our dorm and eat dinner.

Day23
Went to APPG as usual, we have a trial test in the afternoon lesson, for the morning lesson, we have our IS lesson, but teacher never teach anything, he let us do our IS stuff ourselves. i make use of the time to do assignment 1 because we are late for the submission. we do the assignment for the whole period and chiong the journal. teacher say want to check our journal, so many of us chiong until very fast, some of us even chiong 1 day 6 to 10 post. after the morning lesson. then we went to the restaurant nearby to have our lunch, we order quite alot, some have pork which some of us cannot eat. then after lunch we went back to classes. after lunch we went to lesson to have our trial test. we do almost the whole paper then after that Mr Ma. show us the answer, after that we went off to our dorm. we stay in our dorm and study for the whole night before we went to have dinner.

Name:Aw Kang Liang(S10061007B)

1. Learning Objectives
From the oversea immersion program, I hope that I can learn to be more independent to prepare myself for the coming national service. I also want to learn more about the country, I am very curious about their cultural, history and their Wu-Shu. I heard that china is the origin of all the Wu-Shu, so I am a bit curious about how they created the Wu-Shu. I am also very curious about their history because I am a fan of the three kingdom history, like how do the Liu Bei fight with Cao Cao, and stuff like this. I also want to know more how the countries work. Lastly, I want to eat the local delicacy and compare it with Singapore local delicacy. I know a bit of the country, I heard that the country is quite dirty and then the food there is a bit salty and oily. Other than that just some history of the three kingdoms and the Great Wall of China, and lastly some Wu-Shu history. My curiosity makes me want to learn more about that country, and I want to gain some cultural intelligence to be able to work in china in the future. I think my learning can aid me in my work, I can either become a tour guide or a businessmen negotiating business with people in china.

2. Focus of Inquiry
I think I will focus everything in the history and the food in china, wuhan. I am very interested in the student life here, I want to know how it works here and compare it with Singapore’s student life. I think there should be a big different. I think getting some working relationship is also very good, maybe next time I might need help from the people here. Maybe my working partner might be any of the china people here, nobody can predict the future, so we must plan it early.

3. Question Of Investigation
What is the three kingdom history all about? Why did Liu Bei die, why did Guan Yu die? and how did the fight began?.
What is the food normally found in Wuhan? I want to taste more food in the china, many said that china food is nice. I think that the food in china represents Chinese, so I must at least try it. I also want to gain more knowledge of the type of food here.
What is the type of races that china have? I heard that china have much different type of Chinese; there is many type of clan in china. They have different type of culture and different practice.

4. Development of global skills
The three global skills that I wanted to learn in my trip are learning business related skills in china, learn to listen to china Chinese and the last one is learn to stay independent.
Learning business related skills in china can help us know about the strategies to doing business and negotiate with people all around the world. China economy is thriving so I think that many people would go china to do business. Take the example that now the economy crisis does not affect china much, however they are still rising in their currency.
Learning to listen to China Chinese can aid us in doing business in china, because china economy is thriving, that why many people will be coming to china and do business. If we don’t learn china Chinese then we would lose out in negotiation, they might say too much and then you cannot catch it, then maybe that part might be the important part. Learning china Chinese can also impress the people in china, they will have good impression of you because you make an effort to learn china Chinese.
Finally, we have to learn to be independent rather then dependent on parents. When we are out of Singapore, we have to take care of ourselves and do all the house chores all by ourselves. Learning independent also allow us to go anywhere without letting out love ones to worry about. I think that learning independent is the most important global skill of all as without learning independent then we cannot go anywhere to learn any of the global skills.


5. Learning strategies
I can learn the stuff by looking around and walking around the place, I can also learn the stuff from the visiting of the historical places. I can also get information from the people there and then read the newspaper. There are a lot of information we can gathered from the school, like the library and lecturers.

Day22
Today was full days of APPG, woke up early in the morning and walk to the block and then the lesson was rather boring, we had to do practice for the coming theory test on friday. we do the practice for quite long, and then after we finish the whole paper and then Mr.Ma go through the paper. we went for lunch at the KFC, i order alot of things to eat. i am very full, after that then we went for the afternoon class, after the afternoon class, we all went back and then we decided to go Lu Xiang Kuang Chang. because me and arvind left with very little money, so i went around the bank check but in the end all the bank is closed. and then we use atm to determine which rate is higher. we went to Lu xiang walk around then we went to sushi shop to have sushi, the sushi is nice. we order alot, and buy some drinks cost at around $545. quite expensive for china but then convert to singapore money is quite ok. then we went to arcade to play awhile before we go back to our dorm to rest, it is so tiring. we won about more than 1000 tickets at a machine there. we went to sleep early.

Day21
Woke up early today, I blast my music until very loud to disturb my room mate sleep. Because he said he wants to wake up to study in the morning which he did not. After that when the times he wake up, then we go to class together, he is like studying the paper. After that we waited outside the classroom for the first batch people to finish their lab test, I was anxious to find out whether is it hard or not, then I look inside, my dorm mate signal me that it is easy. Then we went in to take our lab test, everybody question is different, after we finish our lab test, we went to Hu Quan night market, it is so crowded and smelly. We went there by taking a van that drive peoples around. When we reached there, we went to walk around and buy stuff, I bought a few necklaces and cap. After that I went to walk around, and then time is running out, we got to rush back to the van there, because there is a meeting at 9.30pm. Then we rush back and went back to our dorm, after that we went up for meeting.

Day20
morning was a heavy rain, we are like drenched before we even reach the block, we went back to dorm to take my windbreaker, because i am freezing and some more i am wearing slipper that why i am freezing, i feel as if my leg is going to be frozen. We run all the way to our block and then we are like 4 drenched man. and some more we are late for class, but Mr. Ma didn't scold us, we went back to our seat and then wipe our body dry. after that we eat some man tou. Went for class as per normal, the class was bored. Mr. Ma teach us about the summarize version of chapter 5 and 6. Chapter 5 was short but seem hard, because I was doing lab 5 for past 4 days, and it just cannot works. After that we went to have our lunch break before we went back and took our trial lab test, it is quite easy, only the last part is quite hard which I don’t really know how to do until my friend told me how to do. After that we went back to our dorm, didn’t really go anywhere. only me and nicholas was back in the dorm, the others was out to KFC and then stock up our food supply. they bought 36 eeggs. and some more stuff. So we stay at dorm studying, I was like teaching my friend some part they don’t know, it make me feels like I am a teacher. We study together until very late; I think is after 12am. I am sleeping lesser and lesser again; I want to sleep 10 hours. I am losing my sleep and losing my appetite.

Day19

Wake up at about 6.10am, I went to the toilet to wash up, and prepare to check out of the room. Arvind came to press bell at about 6.15am then we wake up, after that someone called our phone in the hotel and then after bath finish then we went to meet the others on the bus. When we go up the bus, the tour guide ask us whether we got leave anything behind or not, then Nicholas told the tour guide his wallet still in the drawer and the marc’s luggage still in the room. Then Mr. Chua teach us the real meaning of check out. It is very funny. After that we took the bus to the place we had dinner last night to have our breakfast at there. The breakfast in china is like very standard, buns, porridge, noodle, egg and some veggie. It is the same as the cruise. After eating, we went to take cable car, when queuing for the cable car, there is lots of commotion, there is one group of old people carry their son and throw inside the queue in the middle and then they say they long time ago already queue already but obviously is cut queue one. Because they are between our group and then we came in a group one. So we had learn that we must close every single gap between us. If not they will just cut in, and they quarrel very professional one. I took the cable car with the tour guide, and we chat a lot after that I climb up and then I went to find my group of friends and then we climb up and took photo. After taking photo we climb down and went to take cable car come down and then we took some photo there. we play the jumping photo. This means that we jump when the camera man going to snap photo, I accidentally hit Nicholas face during the photo taking session. After that we walk to the restaurant and had our lunch at there, the food there is inedible, I like eat a bit only then I went off already. Arvind cannot find his fork and spoon and then he use chop stick to eat, first time eating lunch with chopstick. We took bus back to our school; it takes about 6 hour before we reach the dorm. It is so tiring, the bus trips so long. All of us are very tired, thanks teachers for letting us to start class at 10am. Good night!!

Day18
Woke up at about 6.30am and then went to bath before packing up and go off to Wudang mountain, the journey was very long. The tour guide told us it is about 5 to 6 hours. My thought was can my butt take it, because 4 hour, my butt already want to die already. I sleep almost for the whole journey, and then we went to Wudang town to have our lunch at the restaurant. The lunch was not that good, the food is just ok ok only. After having our lunch we went to the bus and then we went to the bus terminal to take another bus to tour around Wu Dang Mountain, we stopped at three places and then took photo and then walk around. I think the place include Tai Zi Gong, Zi Xiao Gong and Nanyan Gong. We bought some stuff at Nanyuan Gong, the stuff we buy was the person who crave words on the rice grain. After that we rush down to take bus back to the bus terminal there, after that we went to the same restaurant to have our dinner at there. After our dinner, we went to the hotel to stay overnight, the hotel is very nice and then it is better than our dorm room, the room is big and then very comfortable. We went down stair and walk around there, went to buy drinks and then drink a bit and walk around, in the end didn’t buy anything. We went back to the hotel and then I went to sleep.

This photo are taken when we are on the way to Wudang, the bus trips is about 5 to 6 hours. so we took some photo when we see some nice scenery along the way.

On the way, we saw the status that tell us that we are reaching the place soon, which is the yin yang which symbolise the Wudang.

This is the Wudang Town, the town there is selling alot of stuff, like the sword and stuff. we went to eat at the wudang town there, the place look cool, we didn't have much time to spend on the town, after eating, we took bus to the wudang mountain.

Took this photo when i am bored on bus.

The entrance of Wudang mountain.

Mr. Chua help us take photo. the first photo show that one camera Vs 3 camera.

Took picture of the scenery when we are on the bus, most of the view are being blocked by tree, and the bus is travelling at a high speed so we are not able to take much photo.

When walking up the Tai Zi Bo, the stair is very high, climb until i very sian, then took photo.

Inside Tai Zi Bo, we walk around and saw the temple, we are told not to take photo of the god.

Took some photo and then went in to listen to the tour guide talking, after that we walk around.

Walk around the place, took photo and listen to the tour guide.

Behind the scenery is so nice.!