First what I’m gonna point out is that this whole hiking trip thing is a perfect lesson taught to us by the school about money investing. This is called ultra-efficient use of money here that every one of you can learn from once you step into the awesome society of Earth.

Tuesday morning, everybody woke up early to prepare for the trip, since the bus will get going in a for hours. We gathered our luggage and attend the marching ceremony. The ceremony went on with people giving loads of speeches. Once that was over, we wait to get onto the bus. It was a two and half hour ride to HangZhou, put people were hyped up during the whole ride because there were phones in their hands.

  We had lunch in this restaurant next to a hotel, the food there was interesting. After lunch we headed toward the XiXi Wetland. We are required to participate in a full set of warm-ups before the hiking starts, so that we won’t easily break a hamstring. Once we entered the wetland, the natural ecosystem there that’s made of willow trees, ponds, insects, ducks and swans. The view that appeared in my sight turned out to be quite good. You can get a taste of spring with the breeze and the sunlight. As kept on going, we approached to these bridges without guardrails, which did terrify some people out. Close to the end of the hike, there were these old houses that might appear in some documentaries, quite a good visual impulse with the green, white, and black atmosphere it created with the willows around them. We were indeed asked to stretch our muscles, so that they won’t be completely sore and tired out the next day.

  Dinner was at the same restaurant we had for lunch, didn’t see any improvement there. Afterwards we got onto the bus and headed for the camp, the rooms there can held to 12 people for the maximum. It was quite hard to fall asleep beside 8 other kids at the same age as you because people never stop chatting, respect how energetic they are at 2am. 

  The next day we went working in the tea plantations the school has contacted for us, the technique for finding the tea leaves were quite easy, it’s to search for those combinations of “One heart and two Leaves”, like how in society, two dim people plays the perfect foil for the one that shines. Later on, we went somewhere else for making the Macha tea ourselves. However, the only purpose of my product turned out just to be choking me.

  Day 3 is a hike to the West Lake Area. This was the day with the longest hike and we did not get to see the West Lake itself. (Then what’s the point of us coming all the way to HangZhou? It’s literally the landmark of the region…) It continued on for hours and the fellows sure enjoyed it and had their day (Dunno about that). That’s how it went on for day 4, a hike at the Great QianTang Dam. Didn’t see the magnificent rising tides I read about on the Chinese Textbooks in elementary, which was a loss. Instead, we had this none-stopping trial that went on forever. The whole trial was painted and brushed with bright white, so it kills my eyes when the dying daylight reflects on the pavements. After that we visited a power source museum which turned out to be quite interesting, except we didn’t get enough time to look around the corners. The museum is basically about how the power sources affect human lives, and how they were discovered, mined, and manufactured into the form we can actually apply to different equipments.

  Lunch had taken place somewhere new, and it can finally be commented as something enjoyable considering what we’ve eaten in the past few days. Someone might say I’m being way to sentimental about this trip, but what I am going to point out is our parents didn’t pay little for this, and I’m not sure if the products’ worth the price.

  Well overall I guess we did learn how to cooperate with each other during each hike by living all together and making frequent stops on the hikes, but I’m not sure if I’m going onto something like this ever again, especially considering sorrow things that happened during the trip that I don’t even want to mention. However, this trip did provide students some kind of opportunity to interact with nature and to make practical operation with feet.

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