Day38

I wake up early because we all meeting Tom at 8am to set off to An Hui. We took a bus 907 from opposite our Wuhan School. Along the us journey, I saw lots of familiar place like Hu Quan and the teacher want us to go to the IT mall. Finally, after around 40 minutes we reached the bus interchange which we need to take a 5 hours bus ride to An Hui. Tom said we are lucky today because we just need to wait for 10 minutes to on board the bus, sometime Tom need to wait like 1 hour to on board the bus. We took a long journey to here so we must spend the time here wisely. After reaching we took a cab around 3minutes and according to Tom are like the starting price for the cab is RMB4 for a certain distance if we took a longer ride over the distance each time the price jumped is 4 dollars. We later took a boat about 10 minutes, we are so lucky because we reached at 350pm, the boat will be off at 4pm, otherwise we have to take like 30minutes for the next one to arrive. The boat is an old one inside but it moved really fast surprisingly the first feeling if this boat is will it break down on the way? Later I realise really a stable one. Tom’s parents are really nice to us, they treat us really well. When we reached they treat us fruits and drinks, they really welcome us. I realise we are like a very special guest to them, their whole villages look at us and said hello like warmly welcome us. They are so nice to us that I do not know to describe. We explore their house, we got a very big surprise by their bathroom is like 5 stars hotel bathroom, even the light like got different function when you on different buttons, one of the buttons is for light heater. We saw chicks and chicken, this is the first time I saw that in real life. Is a open eyes experience and I think is a blessing to come here. Then we went to see the cotton since is not the season for the cotton so they was not any worker, inside the factory there is a small farm according to them they plucked the vegetable from there then cook immediately at the kitchen in the cotton factory. We learn how the cotton is being process taking out of seeds through a machine here, which is surprisingly quite advance. Then, the cotton is being sucked to the other room into a machine and compact. We saw lots of machines which we think are very advance. Later, we have another lifetime experience, normally we just sit in the bus see the entire farm but today we went into it and Satish and Sebby even try out to farm. I finally know what is the yellow flower is called the You Cai Hua is used for making the cooking oil. We also walk into the inner part if farm and touch the flower is like the air inside is so fresh, if I am to live here for life I will because everything is relax here and everyone treat us so friendly. After that we went to Tom’s primary school, though the class room is small but the students there are like brother and sister are so cute and friendly. Lastly, the dinner we have is like emperor feast they bring us to their motel and have dinner the room was so luxuries and even the chief of the village is here to have dinner with us. This is where we apply what we learn in the IS module the China teacher taught us table manner, we must wait for them to sit first then we sit. The dishes are so delicious, I have the fish dish which does not have fish bone inside the fish we can have the whole piece not like the Wuhan fish we have which are all bones. We have a traditional chicken soup with deep fried rice inside; the dishes are all so delicious than what we eat during the tour around Wuhan. In the feast the people here keep toasting us making us feeling really embarrassed like we are ‘VIP’. We toast them back too, I know they toast because is kind of their cultures on how they treat their guests. Thanks to Tom’s parents we really love this place and they make me think of my parents too. Yeah! 4 more days we are going back to Singapore!