Friday 7th September 2012
Today we split up into two groups to go to two different branches of the CC English school. Alex, Georgia, Emma, Josh, Ben and I went to a branch that was about 30 minutes away, but it felt like we went to a completely different city! The taxi driver was mental. There were no seat belts. We thought we were going to die.
Luckily we didn't! When we finally got to the branch, we were told to sit down and the teachers performed for us. This made a nice change, normally we're the performing monkeys. We split up into three teams, Emma and I took lead of team two. Firstly, we had to do a performance to the other teams. Inspired by yesterday's training, we decided to sing 'You are my sunshine' fully completed with the appropriate actions.
The next challenge was a bubble blowing competition. Unfortunately, Emma was not partial to the particular flavour of gum and started gagging. She pushed through it though, where others wouldn't. Such a saviour. However, when she was nearly sick after trying to blow a bubble, we all made an executive decision to allow her to forfeit. Poor Emma.
Next up was the scavenger hunt. We were told to buy a variety of things, including apples, pepsi, tomatoes and 'salad jam'. Salad Jam. What even is that. Emma and I eventually deciphered that it was in fact salad cream. I guess that's similar? ish. We were well in the lead, storming through walmart to get as much stuff as we possibly could. We then went to Dico's to get the rest of the items on the list from there. However, ruining my competitive spirit, they decided to play it cool and start taking selfies with Emma and I! Anyone would think we are celebrities! By the time we made it to Dico's, the other teams had managed to get all their items first!
When we got back, we were to have a cooking competition making dumplings and a sale. Making the dumplings was pretty fun luckily the dough was ready made for us, but Emma and I weren't overly good at it! The Chinese members of our team mixed together the meat and herbs and spices, and then we had to use chopsticks to pick up some of the mixture into the dough circles. I wasn't great at that. We then had to fold the dough over the mixture and press our thumbs down to make a semi-circle shape. I felt that that shape was to mainstream for me so I decided to make mine into different shapes. They didn't look particularly great. They tasted amazing though! I couldn't handle too much of the spicy sauce though... too hot!
Next up came the salad. The teachers seemed to think that a 'traditional English salad' consisted of fruit we had melon, apple and tomatoes with salad jam. We were told to teach our group how to make it. We totally blagged it by saying that all they had to do was chop up the fruit then mix it in with the salad jam. It looked revolting. It tasted surprisingly better than expected, but still not great.
We then played a game, that I have tried to describe and I keep having to delete it as it doesn't make sense. So yeah we played that, and then we had to do a role play. More acting. Each team was given a different scene to act out. We were told act out our group taking an exam and thinking we had done terribly, but it turns out we all passed. This was one of the less weird scenarios believe it or not. Obviously, being natural actresses, Emma and I received the most points for our team.
We then told everybody that Alex was really good at singing and she wanted to be a famous singer when she's older. This lead to everybody in the room chanting her name until she got up onto stage and sang a bit of Stacey's Mom and Never Say Never.
We all got together and had a little dance after this, they taught us some dance moves, we taught them so dance moves. It really was beautiful. Oh wait....
We got back to CC Experiment centre half an hour late. Lory, my chum and their friends were waiting for me, and they took me straight to a restaurant, where you pick and choose what you want at each station and then scan a special card which I presume was prepaid. It was a pretty good system, and it meant we got our food ultra quick was a bonus!
I had no idea what any of the food was, so I just trusted Lory and let her go crazy choosing food for me, whilst I hoped that some of it was edible. I tried a traditional GuiYang dish, ready made si wa wa, which looked pretty good. Unfortunately, when I bit into it I found that it had fish in it. It was way to fishy for my likings, especially without tomato ketchup. I could barely stomach it, but I chewed as quick as I could to get it over and done with, and politely declined when they asked if I wanted more.The best part about this restaurant was the ice cream. Hands down. They had so many flavours. It was overly exciting.
When we got back, I showed the chamily my iPad, and we amused ourselves on Photo Booth:
I then got a text from Emma asking if anyone was free to go for a karaoke evening with her family. After a few calls and messages between our chisters and chums, we eventually decided to go! Georgia came along for the ride as well, as her host family lives just over the road. I presumed it would just be a karaoke bar, but when we got there it turned out that at KTV it is all private karaoke rooms. It was amazing. They had different lights so you could turn it into a mini disco. Then came the snacks. So many snacks. Some of it was weird tofu things, but I managed to find some sweets which I was happy about! At first we were worried it would be all majorly Chinese artists we wouldn't know, but they had absolutely heaps of western artists!
Georgia and I kicked it off with a bit of Justin Bieber. We were probably the word singers in the room so we felt like we could set the standard low to make everyone else feel confident. We're so kind and generous like that you see.
We were there for about three hours, and it was such a fun evening. All of the host families, Emma, Georgia and I had such a good time. I wish we have KTV in England!
Luckily we didn't! When we finally got to the branch, we were told to sit down and the teachers performed for us. This made a nice change, normally we're the performing monkeys. We split up into three teams, Emma and I took lead of team two. Firstly, we had to do a performance to the other teams. Inspired by yesterday's training, we decided to sing 'You are my sunshine' fully completed with the appropriate actions.
The next challenge was a bubble blowing competition. Unfortunately, Emma was not partial to the particular flavour of gum and started gagging. She pushed through it though, where others wouldn't. Such a saviour. However, when she was nearly sick after trying to blow a bubble, we all made an executive decision to allow her to forfeit. Poor Emma.
Next up was the scavenger hunt. We were told to buy a variety of things, including apples, pepsi, tomatoes and 'salad jam'. Salad Jam. What even is that. Emma and I eventually deciphered that it was in fact salad cream. I guess that's similar? ish. We were well in the lead, storming through walmart to get as much stuff as we possibly could. We then went to Dico's to get the rest of the items on the list from there. However, ruining my competitive spirit, they decided to play it cool and start taking selfies with Emma and I! Anyone would think we are celebrities! By the time we made it to Dico's, the other teams had managed to get all their items first!
When we got back, we were to have a cooking competition making dumplings and a sale. Making the dumplings was pretty fun luckily the dough was ready made for us, but Emma and I weren't overly good at it! The Chinese members of our team mixed together the meat and herbs and spices, and then we had to use chopsticks to pick up some of the mixture into the dough circles. I wasn't great at that. We then had to fold the dough over the mixture and press our thumbs down to make a semi-circle shape. I felt that that shape was to mainstream for me so I decided to make mine into different shapes. They didn't look particularly great. They tasted amazing though! I couldn't handle too much of the spicy sauce though... too hot!
Next up came the salad. The teachers seemed to think that a 'traditional English salad' consisted of fruit we had melon, apple and tomatoes with salad jam. We were told to teach our group how to make it. We totally blagged it by saying that all they had to do was chop up the fruit then mix it in with the salad jam. It looked revolting. It tasted surprisingly better than expected, but still not great.
We then played a game, that I have tried to describe and I keep having to delete it as it doesn't make sense. So yeah we played that, and then we had to do a role play. More acting. Each team was given a different scene to act out. We were told act out our group taking an exam and thinking we had done terribly, but it turns out we all passed. This was one of the less weird scenarios believe it or not. Obviously, being natural actresses, Emma and I received the most points for our team.
We then told everybody that Alex was really good at singing and she wanted to be a famous singer when she's older. This lead to everybody in the room chanting her name until she got up onto stage and sang a bit of Stacey's Mom and Never Say Never.
We all got together and had a little dance after this, they taught us some dance moves, we taught them so dance moves. It really was beautiful. Oh wait....
We got back to CC Experiment centre half an hour late. Lory, my chum and their friends were waiting for me, and they took me straight to a restaurant, where you pick and choose what you want at each station and then scan a special card which I presume was prepaid. It was a pretty good system, and it meant we got our food ultra quick was a bonus!
I had no idea what any of the food was, so I just trusted Lory and let her go crazy choosing food for me, whilst I hoped that some of it was edible. I tried a traditional GuiYang dish, ready made si wa wa, which looked pretty good. Unfortunately, when I bit into it I found that it had fish in it. It was way to fishy for my likings, especially without tomato ketchup. I could barely stomach it, but I chewed as quick as I could to get it over and done with, and politely declined when they asked if I wanted more.The best part about this restaurant was the ice cream. Hands down. They had so many flavours. It was overly exciting.
When we got back, I showed the chamily my iPad, and we amused ourselves on Photo Booth:
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| From Left to Right: Chum, Lory, Me, Sam, Sams mum. |
Georgia and I kicked it off with a bit of Justin Bieber. We were probably the word singers in the room so we felt like we could set the standard low to make everyone else feel confident. We're so kind and generous like that you see.
We were there for about three hours, and it was such a fun evening. All of the host families, Emma, Georgia and I had such a good time. I wish we have KTV in England!
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