Reflection #3!

Friendliness
Two incidents where I think China people are friendly!
Firstly,  an incident where I come across when shopping too.
There's this shop I went to get clothes at in a shopping mall. We bought a shirt for the physically unwell Shehui, and left. Gracia wanted to buy another shirt so we went back about 2 hours later and the shop owner still actually remember us! So, as usual she bargain with her while I take another look around the shop. I saw a nice blouse so I asked her for the price, she said 120 yuan, so I tried bargaining.

In the process of baragining (translated to english) : 

Me: 70 yuan can lah!
Her: Cannot, too low already! I give you at 90 yuan! (Touch my shoulder.)Me: See, we buy so many things from you, you should give us a cheaper price right?!
Her: But really too low already! (Touch my arm.)Me: Can one lah!
Her: You ah, bargain until like that! (Attempted to smack my butt.) 

We were talking like friends because of her friendliness, before that she asked where we were from and what are we in China for. Many shop owners think that me and Gracia is from Korea/Japan, and said that we have their faces. Some also thought that we are from GuangZhou because the way we speak chinese sounded like them.

Second incident happened when we were out to Roller Skate while killing time.
Roller skating is really fun but it isn't like roller blading. The techniques are different making me very afraid to skate fearing that I will fall. But eventually I still did. So how did it happened?

We were skating in a line with our arms on the shoulders of the person in front of us.
So, first one is Calvin, followed by Gwen, Gracia, Me, Issac.
We were skating happily even after an unknown professional guy came to pull Calvin for us to go faster. Some strangers, if I'm not wrong 3-4 girls, also joined the line by holding Issac on his waist/shoulders.
They were pushing behind and they didn't know we wanted to stop for a rest. So, starting from Gwen, everyone else behind the line fall. It's like building a human pyramid or what we called a "TauPok". Some fell on me while I fell on Gracia and Gwen. And, now I've got 3 bruises on my right leg! But anyway, that's not the point!
The point is the friendliness of the teenagers at the Disco Skating Rink. Even though they didn't know us, they joined us for the fun. This shows how people in China love to have fun together be it with their friends or strangers.

I was also told by Chen Ming that if a guy do not know how to skate, girls will come forward to them to teach them, and the same goes for the girls. This is something that isn't seen in Singapore, or perhaps rarely seen.

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5 weeks of our stay in Wuhan, we made a lot local friends.
Though it seems short, tears rolled down on their faces on the day of our departure.
We are suppose to gather at 10am to take the bus down to the airport.
9.30am, we went to get breakfast and say a final goodbye to the cute baby and friendly owners at the Lotus Leaf Rice stall. We wrote our contact numbers and email addresses in a book given by them. They say they will try to find time to email us. What touched me the most is when we are preparing to board the bus, the mum of the baby, carry him here and she was crying while heading for our direction. Seeing that alone makes me eyes swell. She was actually crying because of us as we were leaving. The entire scene look like a movie clip but yes, very heart wrenching to see her cry like that. We took a couple of photos with her and I gave her a goodbye hug before boarding the bus. It's the last time I'm seeing her already. :( Yes, it's sad!
I'm so missing her, her husband and their baby now! :(

Anyway, other than that... Chen Ming and Christina boarded our bus and send us off to the airport. Christina was having a test that afternoon and we asked her to get off and study but she didn't want to. She tagged along to the airport. In the bus, she opened our gift which is a DIY book of our pictures and the individual notes we wrote for her. She was really elated and said it's really pretty! Both of them cried when we left. It's the last time I'm seeing Chen Ming already! :( He probably will not come to Singapore because of financial difficulties. On the other note, we're still seeing Christina next year because she's coming to Singapore to study! I hope she will study hard because her fees to Singapore will be heavily subsidize!


I hope that my friends in Wuhan will not forget me! I will not forget them as well as they really played a part in my life in Wuhan. :) We wrote notes/letters to them attached with photos and gifts for them as a goodbye gift. I hope they will keep it safe and take them out to read/look at whenever they miss us! :')