Day 8 – Folkdance

Today’s Programme
Morning	To Learn the Quintessence of Chinese culture - Decoupage/Calligraphy
Afternoon	Country-Dance
Evening	To Prepare Stuff
Hotel	Crown Hotel, TaiChung

Everybody was tired that day. We all woke up only a few minutes before the morning class began. We had to hurry. The morning class was about cutting the red paper to make signs (in Chinese). It’s used to decorate the places. We got different words, but all of them had good meaning. This was boring ‘cos it was hard to cut.

Done with that, we had a chance to practice writing Chinese characters using Chinese brush. This was really fun. There was special paper that is used to practice writing. You don’t need ink to write on that paper, just use water, it will appear in black. It then will dry in a couple of minutes and the characters disappeared. Finished practicing; we got 3 pieces of paper in order to write with ink. It was really fun but my hand-writing was terrible.

We got the real ID card in the afternoon. This time, it was the permanent one with picture. Then, we learned to dance along with “Di Yi Zhi Wu”, the song we learned to sing the day before.

We had to dance in couples, but there were more girls than boys in our group. So, I danced as male (the moves for male are easier too hehe). When we reached the chorus, we had to swap partner in round. Playing the song once will need to swap 6 partners. At the beginning we practiced dancing in our group. When we began to dance, two groups merged so that there are two big groups, 72-74 people each. They played the song several times. I kept dancing without noticing that the two big groups were already merged. I noticed that when my partner was P’Keng, Dui1’s Duizhang. It’s funny ‘cos I danced as male while he danced as female. He’s really good at acting like a girl hahaha

Done with dancing, they gave us a bag branded “Jusport”. I am sure it’s the copy version of “Jansport”. They gave us in order to pack stuff as we will be away from our luggage for 2-3 days.

As it’s the last day before we start traveling around, people who were ill were asked to go to meet doctors. There were so many people who were ill. They told me that doctor said that they got infected with the flu that was already spreading around Tai Chung city. (They let us have fried chicken everyday. Lucky, that it’s not bird flue.)

I stayed at the hotel at night because I was tired and I had to wake up early on the next day. I had to pack my stuff into the big luggage bag before keeping it in store room.