20 July - Kungfu, Dumplings & Friendships

Our second last day in Beijing was spent learning Kungfu at a community centre.  After learning for about an hour, we had to do personal demonstrations.  Then the Kungfu teachers showed us some of their moves, which was pretty fantastic. 

It was also the day when we exchanged gifts with the school.  We are very grateful to our sister school Dong Fang De Cai and the organisers of the trip who must have worked so hard to make it such a successful event! They took care of all our needs and were very flexible with the schedules to ensure we had a great time.  Mr Wang and Ms Yang were with us most of the time, and we also came to know some of the other Chinese teachers such as Alice, and Jing Jin.  What a lovely surprise to find that each one of our students received a gift from the school too!

As if that wasn't enough excitement in one day, we finally had the chance to make dumplings!  The boys in our group had been looking forward to it all trip.  But it wasn't all just about the food, some of us finally had the opportunity to meet our penpal of two years, and others made new friends with the Chinese students.