Day 4 in China

10th December 2007

Had a chat with Jason till late last night and realized that he is, definitely, a man of many talents and fine caliber. Though he is at an age of facing many difficulties and obstacles, his positive attitudes and chirpy mindsets would have probably allow him to fly through this period of life. “What I do now is what I would have ripe in the future.”

Supposedly, we would be experiencing public transports for today, and have a nice walk around xihu (West Lake) this morning. Due to the unforeseen circumstances (well, rain actually), we have to cancel the trip (and of course, the ‘taste’ of Hangzhou Public Transport System).

About 10 a.m., we reached ZheJiang university. Jason and his gang of friends have decided to head there to visit their alma mater (and some course-mates). What can I say? Oh well, Zhe Jiang university is very huge and magnificent. What about the people? All are studious and friendly. But one thing for sure is that their food house is very packed, and the order is a little messy (maybe that’s their culture).

Lunch was at the university. The food was not bad actually – seafood fried rice; but, it was a little too sticky, which in turn made me felt very filling and full for the rest of the day.

After the lunch, we headed off to Jason’s high school – HangZhou Foreign Language School.

I was really amazed by the school’s infrastructures and amenities – it seems to be a little bigger than any of the schools in my country. The courses are all taught in Chinese language, apart from English lessons, of course. The teachers were all very friendly and some friends of Jason were interactive and sociable. The most amazing thing of the trip was that many of the people I met today (very friendly) was amazed that I could actually speak reasonable level of Mandarin and English, and could actually watch the news (in Hang Zhou-nese). Let’s hope I do drop them a good impression (and of course, did not really caused much discomfort to bro today. He seemed to be a little down-spirited for the whole day.)

After a long day, Jason’s parents picked us up at his high school and headed down to Nan Shan Ren Jia (tr. The house of the southern hill people) for dinner. The main theme of the physical presentation of the restaurant was mainly olden day of China – chairs and tables were made of bamboos; toilets were made in a way like what we used to see in the movies that depicted olden days of China.

Time to watch the HangZhou-nese news again. We will be going to climb up another hill again. Soon, to Shanghai.


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