Reflection on trip

Last week school organized G9 and G10 students to go to the regions that near to Tibetan area in China.

We left Chengdu on last Sunday and arrived our first destination Yingxiu . 7 years ago an earthquake destroyed almost all the buildings here, but now the town was rebuild by local government. National government built an museum to memorize the victims and people who sacrificed themselves for saving others life. We saw the horrible situation people suffered in after the earthquake, but we felt respectful to their spirits and faith. After visited the museum, we went to a heritage of a local middle school. The construction of this school was damage by earthquake.

We left Yingxiu after we finished the lunch, this little town settled in a mountain region, most mountain regions in China are lack and undeveloped in technology and education. I understand Chinese government put a lot of efforts un developing mountain areas, but they cannot consider them all.

At the evening we lived in a guesthouse in Qiang village. Qiang is one of Chinese majority group, as the oldest majority in China, Qiang people developed their cultures and traditions thousand years ago. The owner of the guesthouse prepared food for us and we all enjoyed in it. Later Mr.Brain took us to top of  one of the highest hill , so we could viewing the whole village. Later on G9 and G10 students go separately , for G10 we visited a private house but also a tourism place known as Yan House, the owner of the house, Mr.Yang, introduce the structure of the house by led us to inside of it. He told us his ancestors built this house for defense the inventors from other regions. Though we have no  ideas who built this house, but it is clear that the construction of the house was complex and unique.

We have the fantastic Qiang local food for the dinner,the major vegetable here is potato, their rice tasted weird because  the rice cannot adopt the altitude and weather condition in this region.

We left Qiang village next morning, and we arrived in our second destination Heishui. People in Heishui are friendly, they waved their hands while we in the bus, because it’s rarely for them to see foreigner here.

The hotel was nice and warm,I share room with the guide because all other girls has their partners except me.

After we finished lunch, the cars from monastery took us to the top of the mountain. We met the head of the monastery, and he introduced the culture of Buddhism. The head of the monastery explained the daily life of a monk, and he took us to the second floor of monastery which known as their library. After we visited monastery, we enjoyed in playing frisbee outside. Then we left monastery, and we went to a Tibetan restaurant for dinner.

Our phones were collecting by Mr. Brain next morning because we behaved bad, therefor we cannot communicate to our parents, for whole day we were trying to find ways to persuade Mr. Brain, but he promised to return our phones when we go back to school.

Everyone seems different without phones, we chatted on the bus, but of course I knew everyone miss their phones so much. We arrived Dagu glaciers and took the buses which can go to the tourist places and the cable car station.

It was too early for us to come here, between full there will be a jungle with nbelievable red leaves on the trees. But the landscape still attracted me a lot, the lakes are so clean that you even can see the bottom part of the lakes. We finally arrived the cable car station, though we were locate at the higher part of the mountain, but the temperature was still hot because of the strong ultraviolet rays. We haven’t considered this situation, therefor most of us took off the coats and jackets, but we realized the actual temperature of the glacier.

We discovered the condition and position problems of mountain regions in higher altitude, the plants become less as we raised to a higher place, it might be caused by weather condition and soil qualities.

A cold wind swiped to us after arrived the glacier, because this place contains only a few oxygen , some of us were lack in it. We sat down on the  ground and took few pictures, this represent we finished our goals, we arrived our destination successfully. After we returned to town, we went to the center square and joined in the dance activity with local people.

I realized something unusual to me, children who lived here looks happy and satisfied, different from children in the city now, they found what childhood really is.

We arrived in school and went back home individually, this trip not just only influenced me by beautiful landscape, but also influence me by it’s actual meaning.

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