My China Camp Review
Posted by carvemeup on December 10, 2008
Tuesday 18th of November
Battery Cars
When my group, The Funky Monkeys rode on the battery cars that went all around Yangshuo, I saw the amazing view that inspired me to take more than two hundred and ten photos in less than thirty minutes! I was so interested in the landscape of Yangshuo that I even took pictures of concrete brick walls and grass fields covered in dirt. Two of the most interesting photos that I captured was a tent floating on top of a river stream and a few mountains that look like they were from the Doctor Seuss series. One of my pictures was a really wonderful picture of a fake butterfly on a wall and I was awarded five Funky Monkey points for it. All the people on the same battery car that I was on, were annoyed because whenever I found something interesting to take a picture of, I shouted what that was. When I looked back at my pictures most of my pictures were ridiculous ones. I liked the battery cars a lot because I thought taking so much pictures was really fun. I also thought that it was fun because I really enjoyed the fantastic view and the cool breeze of the wind. I don’t think the people in my group enjoyed it very much because of my non-stop yammering.
Moon Hill
When we hiked up Moon Hill I counted alll the steps to get to the top and there were eight hundred and seventy three of them. All of the Y6′s HAD to climb to the top of Moon Hill and there was no turning backs. Without any shortcuts it took around twenty minutes to hike up Moon hill. Mr. Loran, who was leading the way was always at the front and nobody was allowed to pass him but could chase after him the whole time. Mr. McLaughlin, the slowest onewas at the end of thye line and no one was allwed to go behind him. At the bottom of Moon Hill I had made a great start following the group chasing Mr. Loran. But at the end I started to wear out and ended around the middle of the group of teachers and Y6′s. The first boy to get to the top of Moon Hill, but not including the Y6 teachers, was Andreas. The first girl to get to the top of Moon Hill was Allissa. The whole time I was walking and running up the steps of Moon Hill with Aaron Ng who is a good friend of mine. I thought the hike up Moon Hill was fun because it was good training and I could talk to my friends unlike school when the only time you could talk was at break and lunch. The only thing that I would want the people that supervise Moon Hill would be to add an escalator somewhere in the hike.
Wednesday 19th of November
The Hoping School
The Hoping school is a very poor school which has only desks and chairs with no technology, whereas DBIS has all types of technology to use, from calculators to Apple computers. Before we went back to the hotel after eating lunch we stayed at the Hoping swchool for about an hour. All of us just ran to a Hoping school student, give the present to them and run off to play. I lent Gabe half of my presents to give to the Hoping school because he lost his presents on the way to Guilin. Fifteen minutes of that one hour was used up singing songs to each other, but the challenge of that was that when we talked English the Hoping school students suddenly burst out with laughter. The rest of the forty five minutes, was spent on playing basketball with the Hoping school students and some of my friends. I think that there are probably worse schools in Guilin than this one. I had a lot nof fun at the Hoping school because I enjoyed playing basketball and handing out the present that I bought.
Thursday 20th of November
Kung Fu at the Paradesa Hotel
On Thursday morning at 6:30am there was a Kung Fu lesson held by three martial artists. Originally the Kung Fu lesson was meant to be on Tuesday at 7:30pm but because of the timing it got switched with the Tai Chi lesson. The martial artists taught us the five fist skill (or something like that) which had 11 steps to follow and a lot of hard warm up exercises before them. The warm up exercises had a lot of streching that some people could not do. More than 75% of the Y6′s thought that the Kung Fu was more enjoyable than the Tai Chi because there was more action to it. A lot of the people could do the five fist skill technique and others struggled with it. I thought the Kung Fu was really fun, despite the fact that I was good at it because I could do all the steps and the warm up exercises.
