Day 35: MDE Day Out!

Day number 35. Woke up very early today as it was MDE Day Out today at the Theme Park and shopping! Most of us didn't manage to wake up at our desired time as we were all very tired with all the late night sleep which we had previously. However, we dragged ourselves out of the bed, prepared and meet up with the rest at the campus gate to board the bus and ready to set off!

The bus journey from campus to our destination, the theme park is around 1hour or so and almost all of us fell asleep on the bus almost immediately as we were far too tired. Here are some photos taken during the bus journey!

MDE!

Local Court House

After reaching our destination, we alighted and we saw that KFC delivery over here in China uses bicycles instead of motorcycles. Thus, this shows that their delivery area are rather limited and therefore, delivery time is definitely faster and more efficient! Here are some photos!

The Street

KFC Delivery

It was a 10 minutes walk from the location which we alight to the theme park. We passed by the local hospital along the way as well as a park before we reach the theme park. As we were in the park, we saw some rather interesting activities. One of it is a man doing Chinese calligraphy on the floor of the park with a huge brush and water. Here are some of the photos!

The Park

A Man doing Chinese Calligraphy




Boats

After the walk, we finally reached the theme park. Upon reaching, we headed off to see any rides interest us. The theme park over here in China is rather different from what we had seen in Singapore. The theme park here requires no admission tickets. The tickets are charged by ticket for each ride. For example, the rollercoaster ticket cost around RMB$25 per ticket per person. We stayed in the theme park for the whole morning and some of them tried some of the rides. Here are some of the photos!

Map of Theme Park


Rollercoaster


Group Photo
Erwin, Xanier, Mingyu, Jarold, Me, Roy, Edy
(from left to right)


MDE Group Photo @ Theme Park

After leaving the theme park, our next destination is shopping! Thus, we walked down the streets and eventually decided to try out the local train service or our MRT service which we had back in Singapore. The tickets for the train service here is China is payable by how many stations or stops you are traveling. As we are only traveling for 1 stop, the ticket cost is RMB$1.50 per person. The ticket issued wasn't in card form or in paper form but in a coin form whereby we have to scan them at the scanner to pass through the gantry. Here are some of the photos of our experience!

The ticketing machine


The Ticket


The Train

After reaching our destination, we split up and headed for lunch and headed off for our shopping. Spend a few hours on the streets doing our shopping. Here are some of the photos!

Some of the shopping centres

After shopping, we met up at around evening time and set off to take a boat to another location for our dinner at the food street before we headed back to campus via bus! Here are some of the photos!

Jetty

Boarding the boat

Reached campus at around 9.30pm in the night and some of us decided to head down the streets to get some food while the rest of us decided to head back to our rooms to have a refreshing shower and to continue with our assignments and of course, some card games together before we call it a day.

Alrights. Thats all for today!

My Reflections:

After a day out of fun with MDE today, it was rather good to have some time and fun out together as a group. Its definitely a good bonding session among us as we were on this overseas immersion programme together. Its also a time for us to relax and enjoy ourselves before we are back to our hectic schedules once the next semester starts when we are back in Singapore!