Day 5 @ Nanjing :D
Today was like any other day :< However, it was fun. We went to zheng he memorial park, where there was a replica of one of the ships in zheng he’s fleet. It was a few times smaller than the treasure ship itself. We were amazed when we heard that imagining that what was before us was the actual ship. Sadly, we could not get in to the ship to explore as the exhibits are in the process of setting up. Hence, we continued walking through the park. We saw many exhibits including the anchor of the ship and the steering of the ships at different voyages. We could not learn a lot from this as the park had not many things to show but we were very fascinated by the moats that were used to build and repair ships as they were so technologically advanced, being able to drain the water while it was being repaired. After a somewhat horrible lunch, we proceeded to the outside of the temple where the relic of the monk named Tang xuan zang was. We were shocked to hear that not only was he not a mythical character like sun wu kong in china’s famous story, journey to the west but a real person that traveled to the west by foot. :P soon after, we went to the nine-storey pagoda. It was taller than any pagoda I have ever seen and was said to be made for the emperor as the higher the pagoda, the higher the status. We were allowed to go up if we want. I, too also wanted to go up but could not as I myself was afraid of height but I was dragged by my friend to go up and accompany her. I kept holding on to the pillar as I climbed but when I reached the top, I was stopped in my tracks upon seeing the breathtaking scenery from the top of the pagoda. Unfortunately, it was time to go down the pagoda. Finally! It was nighttime already!! ~~~ Everyone was very happy as we were putting fire crackers (like those you see during Chinese new year) ^^. We use joss sticks to light up the firecracker one by one. At first, everyone was trying to pass the joss sticks to some one else to start the ball rolling. Nevertheless, everyone started to be more daring and lighted more at once it was so funny to see everyone’s funny expressions it certainly cheered up everyone after the water pipe broke and had to be fixed before we could do anything. One of the teachers were cheeky and stated light up the hole chian of firecracks with some loose one at the sides. There came a large explosion and the firecracker bulb hit many of us, most of us were jumping around when the hot thing hit us. It was really hilarious . XD haha ~~~
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