Sunday Afternoon

    Last Sunday, we held an activity for our buddies—cooking them a meal.
    The leaders of NYJC bought some materials from vivo city and came back at 2 PM. After called some of us together, we began to cook. Buddies would came in an hour, so time was limited,we needed to work together. Some of us washed vegetables, some cooked meat for noodles with soybean paste, some mixed the powder with water to prepare for dumpling wrapper,some mixed meat with Chinese cabbage to make stuffing,etc.After finishing all these preparing job,we need to fill the stuffing into the dumpling wrapper. I was in charge of  using a rolling pole to roll the dough into small, thin and round pieces so that they will be easy to cook. It was a long and complex way to make dumplings.What's more, it was the first time for most of us to make dumplings by ourselves, so we took a long time. We have't finished when our buddies arrived. So they came to help us. We enjoyed ourselves to work together. And finally, dumplings was ready and we let them to enjoy the dumplings made by ourselves.

    Dumplings carry a very special meaning for Chinese people. When Chinese people have guests for dinner, we prepare dumplings to warmly welcome our guests.
    It was a really memorable day.

Tongtong and Peiyu

Having dinner at canteen, my buddy (left) and I(right)

The tasty omelette rice 

We spent a lot of time in the canteen. I wanted to try every kind of food so I have different dinner every day. The omelette rice is my favorite. Inside of the omelette, the fried rice smells attractively.

                                                Cao Tongtong

A journey to Fort Canning Mountain plus my buddies.

Dearest Jiawen and Xuelian,

Happy to write my diary like a letter for you!
Miss you so much!

Here I would like to express my heartfelt attitude to you for companying me until the end of my stay in NYJC.

I really feel great fortunate to have both of you as my buddies. You did a lot for me, most special of which that could always be in my memory is the journey to Fort Canning Mountain

 

 

 

 

At the beginning of our journey, Jiawen send me a small gift.

Jiawen, I really appreciate your delicate hand-made gift  - the little card with your wishes and my name. You say that people will encounter many friends in their whole life, however, few of them could be remembered. But you told me that you would always remember Hongting, Tongtong and me.

Dear girl, we would always remember you too!

 

Then, time comes to the Fort Canning Moutain.

Though it was a pity that Jiawen was not in the same group as I was, spending time with Xuelian was as well a great momery there.

School appointed a wondeful guide for us. Do you remember him, Xuelian? The happy grandpa in red.Could you remember he told us he was 85 yet we thought he was 58? Haha...that was a sweet misunderstanding, wasn't it?

 

After that, during our journey, our happy grandpa introduce us many herbs whose died body actually were used in the daily life but when it came to their living form, we could not recognise. One special thing is the nutmeg. Remember what surprise our guide gave us? Yes, he brought us a package of nutmeg for experiencing the herb more vivid ! I liked the taste of nutmeg, however, unfortunately, my stomach stopped me from trying more pieces of nutmeg. Whatever, our guide really taught us a lot in the Fort Canning Mountain. I appreciated him very much.

 

 

When lunch time was around, Dr.Pang is so nice that he offered each pair of us S$ 15 for having lunch. Dear xuelian, you introduced me the eating habits in Singapore and your favorite food. I could still remeber the ice cacang! Also, I still do not understand what it sounds like cachang but without an "h" in it! English and Malaysian are confused, aren't they?

 

 

Dear friends,  time spending with you seems too short, and I am looking forward to our next dinner together, next next lunch together, and next next next lunch .......HAHA.....

 

 

Wish you good health and happiness!

 

Regards,

Dong Yibing





Beautiful memories in NYJC

Though we stayed only one week in NYJC, I’m very sad to say goodbye to my friends. We attended their classes such as Math, Chines, Economy, Project Work, PE and so on. We tried all the delicious food in their canteen such as Pattaya and hot dog. We joined their meeting though I don’t know how to sing the national anthem of Singapore. We visited Fort Canning and learned some Singapore history. I will keep the beautiful memories in my heart and I hope we can get more opportunities like this.

Hope my buddy like the hand-making bear~ It's the first time to for me to do such a complicated work!!

Friendship!!!

One of the best things in NYJC is making so many good friends. My dearest buddy is the first friend I have ever met in Singapore. I feel so happy about it because I want to make a local friend for a long time. We become very good friends in one week time. We go classes, go canteen, do everything together. It pretty good to share all the things to each other. She told me many things in Singapore, during one week, not only my Singlish went up a step, I knew more about the country I’m living in, from the basic lifestyles, governmental new policy to delicious food, interesting jokes, I like Singapore and my Singapore friends more after being in JC. I also share many things in China, including the differences and my feelings about Singapore and China, I hope she can also enjoy my sharing.

I also make some friends in my buddy’s class. There are three scholars in my class, so I get familiar with their buddies as well. They are all very cute girls and friendly, I like being with them. I really admire them because they can speak both Chinese and English very good. In China, if you can control Chinese and English well, it could be a precious thing, however, there is so common for them can use two languages well in Singapore. I think I have to work harder to my English!

I went to my buddy’s home this Sunday. Her home is so big and nice, we ate delicious noodles served with such sauce (I don’t know whether the spelling is correct or not). I like it very much!!!

Friendship is such a good thing! Thank you all, with love.

Our trip to Fort Canning Park

On saturday, I went to a trip with my buddy Xiaoying to do a project work.

Our destination is Fort Canning Park.

First, we went to Fort Canning Park, which was originally constructed in 1926 as British army barracks. And I knew that this stately building was used by the singapore armed forces before being converted into squash courts and offices in the 1970s.

Then, we took a look at James Brooke Napier memorial at Fort Canning Green. Went along the path, there was a spice garden, lots of unknown spice there(for me).

After that, we also went to Keramat Iskandar Shah, archaeological dig and raffles terrace. Although it is tiring for us to walk so long, it really extends my vision.

My second day in NYJC

It is my second day in NYJC. I got up early and went to school. After I met my buddy. We went to the school auditorium to listen to a series of presentations. One is about current affairs in singapore, the other is about how to manage yourselves. I had learn a lot from these speeches.

Then we had English literature, economics and chinese literature. I was surprised that students who attend the chinese literature class have quite high level in Chinese. They had already touched ancient chinese poems and even some short ancient articles.

And as for economics class. I have never attended such class before hence everything covered in the class seemed to be fresh to me. It is interesting.

I also took the PE class. As required, I ran 1200 meters. Although it is quite tiring, I had a lot fun there.