Monday, November 27, 2006
~ 11/27/2006 07:41:00 PM ~
;school visit
Visited my previous school today, and got some unexpected experience. When I just arrived at the school, it was midday. I occationally saw my physics teacher at the gate and we had a short conversation. Then I proceeded and had some lunch. Due to the reason that I just had my breakfast before I set off for school, I didn't eat too much.
I visited teachers after that and occationally met the Master of Foreign Communication Department of our school. The Department is to arrange foreign teachers or foreign students exchange programmes. The master told me that the teachers in charge and my TA fellow was leaving the next morning and asked my if I wanted to bid goodbye to the teachers in charge.
I hurried to the Department and saw the teachers of the Department and the teachers in charge there. We talked for a while and the teachers in charge told me about the last activity they would have before they left. I learnt that after ten minutes, they would went to visit a place of interestes called the Courtyard of Shi Family. The teachers in charge asked if I wanted to join. I agreed and a few minutes later, I was on my way to the schoolyard where the bus parked. I met one of my friends and one of my previous teachers on my way. I got on the bus after a short conversation with them.
I saw Rimiko, Claudia, Peng Ho and Jia Wei on the bus. When everyone was there, the bus set out. The students who took part in the Exchange Programme seemed busy preparing the final presentation on their way to the Courtyard. They discussed with the Chinese teacher and kept writing something. I talked to them about something that I cannot remember now, and we reached the Courtyard of Shi Family.
The Courtyard which was built hundreds years ago belongs to Shi Family. Now it has become a cultural museum. It was a set of traditional Chinese building. The Courtyart was divided by walls into many parts. Guiding by the guide, who was told to speaks slower when she guided us throught the different rooms that were decorated traditionally and splendidly. We exchanged ideas about how they found the visit of Tianjin and talked about some other stuffs. At the end of the course, I talked about their lives at the school which they visited. Peng Ho and Jia Wei even showed us the martial arts they had learnt from the PE lessons.
It was not very warm today. There was a nip in the air. We hurried to the bus in which we travelled when we came. We were leaving. Peng Ho used poker to perform magic to us and we talked about stuffs in Tianjin, like the Tianjin dialect all the way to school for part of their research for the final presentation. The nights are long in Tianjin in winter. When we arrived at school at five o'clock, it was dark outside already. I bade goodbye to the teachers in charge and my fellows. It's dinner time now. I'll go and enjoy my dinner. Laters.
