Blogs from Sichuan, China, Asia - page 7

School has been a great experience so far! I walk there every morning, in the cool air. In the mornings I meet with the class to talk about what’s happening that day and the experiences we’ve had with our homestay families. I have to say, I’ve heard some pretty crazy experiences. At the moment we are doing a main lesson involving mathematics, geometry, etc. It has been pretty good apart from not having a compass. Almost every day we have had to draw about a billion circles and I have had to do it free hand…I didn’t realise how frustrating it would be, so now I’m probably going to fail this class because my circles look like squares and are very inaccurate. The Chinese students must think I’m really dumb because I don’t do my homework, ... read more

My weekend in China was great after having a really fun week at school. We made plans to meet the whole class at the Global Centre (a huge building containing an indoor beach, a water park, plenty of shops, etc.) but before going there Avalon and I had to meet a few classmates at Starbucks. To get to the street Starbucks was in, Avalon and I went in an Uber and the driver dropped us off in the right street, but little did we know that this street was a very long main street…very long. We walked around a bit trying to find the names of places that were given to us that are near Starbucks, but they were nowhere to be found. We did this for about an hour and a half and started to ... read more

I miss home, but I’m having fun. It took me a few days to get used to the food, but it’s getting better. Getting around is an adventure all on its own, from finding a taxi or Uber, to paying them when you are there. Being here in China, at just 15, is an awesome opportunity and I’m grateful to have it.... read more

My whole class went to the Global Centre this weekend. We all organized to meet at the entrance of the massive centre. In the shopping centre there is a waterpark and an indoor beach. The entrances have marble floors and pillars of gold. It looks like it cost a hell of a lot of money to build. I was going to get my ears pierced because it’s so cheap, but I didn’t because I made an agreement with my mum not to get them done till I’m 18. We spent practically the whole day in the shops, although, I didn’t buy any clothes. It was a pretty fun time and at the end of the day my feet hurt so much from all the walking. Avalon slept over at my host family’s home that night. Everyone ... read more

School is so cool and everyone is nice. Most of my class plays soccer at lunch, and we have food in our class every lunch. It’s like tuck shop. They have these chairs in the art room that don’t have a back rest so, if you don’t get a good chair (there are only 3) then your back slowly starts to hurt over 2 and a half hours. In art we painted pandas and the ink just spread everywhere so my panda looked really bulky. Ebon... read more