The Great Race.

Hehe! We're called the "Posing Group". We make cool little poses.

This was our modeling pose. ^^

Sorry for the blurriness! Hopefully you can make everyone out okay.

Day Two. The Great Race~~~

HELLO! So anyway! This morning we got up to a very lovely continental breakfast, with lots of lovely food and lovely company of very lovely people~!

The Continental Breakfast consisted of... (the things that stood out to me, at least)

Steamed OJ (boiling hot, for some odd reason)

This sweet bread cake stuff with jam

Congee?

Eggs.

Noooooooooooooduls

Muffins

Sticky Rice

Yup! =D I bet you're jealous. ^^

Very happy way to begin the day. After that at 9am we went to have a meeting, and met up with four high school kids that were going to be our guides...sorta. Except they weren't really supposed to tell us where to go, only vaguely. And we had a list of things we were supposed to do, like a big scavenger hunt. and there was a big PRIZE AT THE END, Kojo said! (We can't really take his word for it, but it was a challenge.)

~The Scavenger Hunt, aka the GREAT RACE!!~

At the bank:

Exchange $20 into RMB (chinese currency)

Collect your receipt

Take a picture

The bank took a long time because out of two booths we could only use one. In the end we were the only group that stayed and all the others went to find another bank. =)

At the bus stop:

Sit/Stand in the bus to get to the train station, take a picture in the bus

Keep your bus ticket

Since it was only 1yuan to travel as far as you wanted on the bus, we used the bus a lot more than we thought we would have. =D And we didn't even get lost!

At the Train Station:

Look for a teller

Ask how much the student ticket costs to get to NanJing

Ask how much the student ticket costs to get to Shanghai

Since we wanted to be time-saving, our group purchased the tickets for Shanghai beforehand. I believe we leave to go there next Thursday, but every group goes at a different day. After everything, we had to ride a bus all the way back so that we could return them, just because we were supposed to be back at Suzhou at four. -.-

At the Market (or store):

Buy TP (toilet paper)

Buy a pencil/pen

Buy chinese candy

Buy something you can't find in US

We had so much fun doing this! I guess you'd all know why~~~

At the Bookstore:

Get a Chinese-English dictionary

Buy a map

Buy Suzhou postcards

*cough* they ran out of postcards by the time we got there. The bookstore was HUGE! it was four floors and everything was in chinese.

At the Silk Museum:

What animal makes silk? *snickers* ___________

What does the animal need to live? ___________

Why is the silk white? __________

Why is it called "The Silk Road"? ___________

**Eat lunch please.

Phew. It was hard, but after all this backbreaking work that makes us look like tourists (well, at least the picture taking), here are the RANKINGS!

Last Place: Woody's Group

Third Place: Pam's Group

Second Place: Amy's Group (our group. Aka, the best group overall.)

First Place....

...BACON!!! =D

Well we didn't get to find out the prize. So then we just went home and had 2 hours of free time, and yeah! Then we walked to a restaurant by a river and stuffed ourselves full of yummy food. Some people freaked out over the chicken head on the dish. *sigggh* But we had lots of time to social, and then after that we walked past the park and went to Kojo's surprise activity.

A BOAT RIDE!

It was very pretty, with lots of lights and stuff.

See? =)

Compliments to Amy Liu for taking this picture. <3>

Most of us fell asleep on the way back because we were so exhausted from all the walking and running. Speaking of exhausted, basically everyone is asleep by now, but here i am trying to fill all you concerned and very lovely parents on all this. *phew* I'm really tired right now.

Yawn.

I'm sorry about the very little pictures though, because it stretches out the page, which is really dumb.

My eyes are drooping...that's it. I'm off...until tomorrowww! I'll try my best to write earlier so I can provide you all with more specific details.

Love to everyone out there =)

~~Reporter Poh