Preparations for the visit to China are well underway. Mrs Davies has put together a journal and ideas for students so that they can create wonderful memories to share with their family and our student community upon their return.
We have all arrived in Beijing safe and sound. Everyone is very tired but excited and looking forward to getting to our hotel. Although the flights were long they both went very quickly with lots to see, especially in Dubai airport. It's half past five here and we are just on the coach travelling from Beijing airport to the Rainbow Hotel. We expect it to take about an hour but it's peak time and we've just been informed there are six million cars in Beijing so we could be waiting a little longer for our dinner. We are off to the forbidden city and Beijing Zoo tomorrow where we shall hopefully pick up our mascot and see the pandas (something we've all been looking forward to). 1 hour later... We arrived at our hotel and had a lovely meal (a mixture of Chinese and Western dishes). Our guides promised us a much more authentic Chinese meal tomorrow which we are all excited but a little apprehensive about. We then had a lot of fun figuring out our hotels fabulous li...
Our students arrived home today, tired but in great spirits. Ready to spend some time with their families once again. This is not the end of #UCANvisitChina, it's just the beginning..... Watch this space For now, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed their journey and story telling as much as I did. Enjoy your summer break and we will see you all again in September. Ms Phillips
Day 8: Harbin. Today we started by learning more mandarin in the morning so that day to day conversation should be easier on trips out. We are now quite confident at Hello, good morning, I am English, thank you and we are beginning to know our numbers. We then went for lunch after the lesson where we discussed the days lesson and practiced speaking Chinese. After lunch we travelled to an imitation traditional Chinese alley. This was amazing and had lots of little shops and stalls selling Chinese food, drinks and handmade ornaments and paper cutting. We walked round the shops in excitement from the various sights and smells. One of the best attractions was caramelised sugar moulded into different shapes, like dragons, butterflies and sunflowers. We had a great time and could have spent much longer here but we had to get back to meet the families for our home stay. At 4 o'clock all the families arrived to meet us and take us out. We were quite nervous a...
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