tuesday,oct 31I've been woken up early (actually not that early)this morning by the Xi An Tie Yi Zhong school music tune.It was a morning call to the students staying nearby , indicating that the time is 6.30. (YAWN!!)I got up,packed my stuff and got ready for the school.Rosma and i wore cap as the host's mum said that it would be cold today!Indeed it is!(opps!)I forgot to apply my lip balm.As we were walking towards the bus stand, the cold air blew towards our face as though like putting you face inside the Island Freezer in the Shop and Save !(laugh!)My face chills and cheeks looks as though blushed.As we got up the bus700,my host payed the tickets. Its only 1juan each!Which means$0.20!Very cheap isn't it?The bus was like a TUNA TIN!So packed with students and workers.The passengers were so rude,they stared at Rosma and me from head to toe,as though we were some alien freaks from pluto.Did you know that the bus driver seat is on the left side and the door is on the right?Then the ticket money collector sits beside the door?For Singapore,the bus driver seat is on the right and the door is on the left,plus there is no ticket money collector,expect the EX-LINK card tap or the coin-ticket machine.In the china public bus,there is a announcement played whenever the bus is going to turn,asking to grab hold tight to the rear.In China,the roads can go in all directions!!The cars flow like the water in the yellow river(huang he) and traffic lights can be counted down from 100!Those drivers always ignore the traffic lights and zebra crossing. Its like cars first before passengers, whereas it should be passengers first the cars.DANGEROUS!! Finally reached Tie Yi Zhong!! This is the side view of the school
This is also the front view, a close-up.
Saw the picture below? That my breakfast of the day.The nestle cup is boiled milk and the transparent cup is diluted black glutinous rice(bur bur itam). Taste bad. I wonder how the students survive on this kind on food everyday.
After breakfast, we had visiting around the school guided by one of the teacher.
This is one of the canteen stall holder.The food is very cheap and is served in huge amount!
This canteen is for the students to have their meals.Its huge, 5 times larger than my school's canteen!!
Each ends of the canteen is a hostel.One end is for the guys and the other end is for the girls.Each room consists of 4 person . Individual desk is below each bunk.
This is the basin part. There is no toilet in the room.
I spotted two weird pots of plant outside the hostel!! Look closely at the stems.
This plant has a platted stem!!
This was at the field!! Syahidah and me!! The field is like 4 times my school's field? (sweet!)
Before lunch, we had chinese lesson. In there school, students had to memorise poems and other literature stuffs written by famous poet.This display was like a welcome decoration to welcome us for the lunch in the teacher's canteen. Look at the display clearly! There is actually plates of fruit in front of the decoration.
I like this carved watermelon. I envy how the chief did this piece of master art! So skillfully done and the watermelon is fresh.
This is something that you don't usually see in Singapore. Its like custard apple but juicer and sweeter.
This little one is parsimon.It is soft and sweet.In Singapore, it is usually imported from Australia and Israel and the size is much larger.
The basin.The food was served in a buffet style.
Now this is what i call "China toilet". It is located outside the canteen. There is (i say there is) no DOOR!!!! Except the one in the General office.
This is where some of the chinese ambassador girls(including me) hang out during midday rest.
The basketball court.
When the end of midday rest bell rang, all the students ran back to their respective class and a keeper locked all the gates.This shows how responsible of the students not wanting to be late for lessons. During the English lesson, the teacher was very creative in teaching his students. He goes through a short and simple video and after ample times going through, he asked students to act out exactly like the clip. Then he shows a diagram of a box which consists indicated words like in, under, behind, in front,below and near. Then, he played games with this words to make the students remember this words better and faster. Before the end of lesson, he asked his students to complete the crossword puzzle with words learned. I realised that the school also practices the homeroom system too.The students were attentive during lesson and enthusiastically participated in every questions asked or volunteers needed. During music lesson, the teacher came into class with full of spirit. This gave me a sudden 'wow' effect.Today's music lesson was about chinese mask. The teacher gave a brief introduction on how it origins and which
colour painted on the mask represents what behavior of the character is.
After that she played a old tune about the chinese opera mask. I dozed during that part and missed the mask making part.(opps! not on purpose!!) By the time i woke, i saw some students dressed in tradition costumes of different character in the chinese opera play. Look! That is our very own yusoffian!!
Here comes one!The (dan) female.
Oh another! This is the male character!
This is the finale of the introduction to chinese opera characters.
We had a half an hour afternoon tea right after music lesson. Followed by the last activity of the day,which is sports!(yeah) There is skipping ropes,basketball and even plane making.We first had the plane making. Quite tough as i don't really understand those deep chinese characters. But was a success!! See our plane tried out!! You have to turn the propeller 100-200 to have the plane fly further.
After plane making, we had the honor of joining the school basketball girls team in their training. Those girls are such tall and man-looking. Their two person passing and then lay-up(also called as fast-break) was sweet!Their stamina was good too. Candice,Sze Qin,Pei Ling and some other yusoffians and me had a hard time chasing them up. At 6pm, my host came to fetch Rosma and me back. There were many student cycling back home. For dinner, the host's mum had prepared a variety of side-dish for us. Nice! (yummy) I will miss her food a lot back in Singapore. Well, now for my reflection:
- i learnt that students in China uses QQ, something like msn messenger, but is in chinese version
- If any students were late for exam, they have to knee and beg for forgiveness
- The board below is the announcement of the day(very useful for Mr Adam)!
- they have a board of the star teacher of the year
- the schooling hours are long
- the students are warm and friendly
- they like to exchange currency
- they are very appreciative
THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!
tuesday,oct 31I've been woken up early (actually not that early)this morning by the Xi An Tie Yi Zhong school music tune.It was a morning call to the students staying nearby , indicating that the time is 6.30. (YAWN!!)I got up,packed my stuff and got ready for the school.Rosma and i wore cap as the host's mum said that it would be cold today!Indeed it is!(opps!)I forgot to apply my lip balm.As we were walking towards the bus stand, the cold air blew towards our face as though like putting you face inside the Island Freezer in the Shop and Save !(laugh!)My face chills and cheeks looks as though blushed.As we got up the bus700,my host payed the tickets. Its only 1juan each!Which means$0.20!Very cheap isn't it?The bus was like a TUNA TIN!So packed with students and workers.The passengers were so rude,they stared at Rosma and me from head to toe,as though we were some alien freaks from pluto.Did you know that the bus driver seat is on the left side and the door is on the right?Then the ticket money collector sits beside the door?For Singapore,the bus driver seat is on the right and the door is on the left,plus there is no ticket money collector,expect the EX-LINK card tap or the coin-ticket machine.In the china public bus,there is a announcement played whenever the bus is going to turn,asking to grab hold tight to the rear.In China,the roads can go in all directions!!The cars flow like the water in the yellow river(huang he) and traffic lights can be counted down from 100!Those drivers always ignore the traffic lights and zebra crossing. Its like cars first before passengers, whereas it should be passengers first the cars.DANGEROUS!! Finally reached Tie Yi Zhong!! This is the side view of the schoolThis is also the front view, a close-up.Saw the picture below? That my breakfast of the day.The nestle cup is boiled milk and the transparent cup is diluted black glutinous rice(bur bur itam). Taste bad. I wonder how the students survive on this kind on food everyday.After breakfast, we had visiting around the school guided by one of the teacher.
This is one of the canteen stall holder.The food is very cheap and is served in huge amount!
This canteen is for the students to have their meals.Its huge, 5 times larger than my school's canteen!!
Each ends of the canteen is a hostel.One end is for the guys and the other end is for the girls. Each room consists of 4 person . Individual desk is below each bunk.
This is the basin part. There is no toilet in the room.
I spotted two weird pots of plant outside the hostel!! Look closely at the stems.
This plant has a platted stem!!
This was at the field!! Syahidah and me!! The field is like 4 times my school's field? (sweet!)
Before lunch, we had chinese lesson. In there school, students had to memorise poems and other literature stuffs written by famous poet.This display was like a welcome decoration to welcome us for the lunch in the teacher's canteen. Look at the display clearly! There is actually plates of fruit in front of the decoration.
I like this carved watermelon. I envy how the chief did this piece of master art! So skillfully done and the watermelon is fresh.
This is something that you don't usually see in Singapore. Its like custard apple but juicer and sweeter.
This little one is parsimon.It is soft and sweet.In Singapore, it is usually imported from Australia and Israel and the size is much larger.
The basin.The food was served in a buffet style.
Now this is what i call "China toilet". It is located outside the canteen. There is (i say there is) no DOOR!!!! Except the one in the General office.
This is where some of the chinese ambassador girls(including me) hang out during midday rest.
The basketball court.
When the end of midday rest bell rang, all the students ran back to their respective class and a keeper locked all the gates.This shows how responsible of the students not wanting to be late for lessons. During the English lesson, the teacher was very creative in teaching his students. He goes through a short and simple video and after ample times going through, he asked students to act out exactly like the clip. Then he shows a diagram of a box which consists indicated words like in, under, behind, in front,below and near. Then, he played games with this words to make the students remember this words better and faster. Before the end of lesson, he asked his students to complete the crossword puzzle with words learned. I realised that the school also practices the homeroom system too.The students were attentive during lesson and enthusiastically participated in every questions asked or volunteers needed. During music lesson, the teacher came into class with full of spirit. This gave me a sudden 'wow' effect.Today's music lesson was about chinese mask. The teacher gave a brief introduction on how it origins and which
colour painted on the mask represents what behavior of the character is.
After that she played a old tune about the chinese opera mask. I dozed during that part and missed the mask making part.(opps! not on purpose!!) By the time i woke, i saw some students dressed in tradition costumes of different character in the chinese opera play. Look! That is our very own yusoffian!!
Here comes one!The (dan) female.
Oh another! This is the male character!
This is the finale of the introduction to chinese opera characters.
We had a half an hour afternoon tea right after music lesson. Followed by the last activity of the day,which is sports!(yeah) There is skipping ropes,basketball and even plane making.We first had the plane making. Quite tough as i don't really understand those deep chinese characters. But was a success!! See our plane tried out!! You have to turn the propeller 100-200 to have the plane fly further.
After plane making, we had the honor of joining the school basketball girls team in their training. Those girls are such tall and man-looking. Their two person passing and then lay-up(also called as fast-break) was sweet!Their stamina was good too. Candice,Sze Qin,Pei Ling and some other yusoffians and me had a hard time chasing them up. At 6pm, my host came to fetch Rosma and me back. There were many student cycling back home. For dinner, the host's mum had prepared a variety of side-dish for us. Nice! (yummy) I will miss her food a lot back in Singapore. Well, now for my reflection:
- i learnt that students in China uses QQ, something like msn messenger, but is in chinese version
- If any students were late for exam, they have to knee and beg for forgiveness
- The board below is the announcement of the day(very useful for Mr Adam)!
- they have a board of the star teacher of the year
- the schooling hours are long
- the students are warm and friendly
- they like to exchange currency
- they are very appreciative
THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!
