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Day 1: In the morning around 5, students from y9, and y10 reached the school. Even though we were tired, no one really blamed or complained much. First, we flied to Kunming, which took more than 4hours. Almost everyone was sleeping^^ zzz after arriving Kunming, we took another plane to Lijiang. Being serious, it sucked a lot. Unfortunately, Melody lost her ticket that she was not able to get on the plane. Therefore she had to take the next plane with one of the guide called Nina. The plane was moving too much I thought we were having sky quake. Many people got plane-sick and I really felt sorry for them. We paid so much money for this trip, yet the beginning of the journey, we had so much trouble. Fortunately, the flight only took only about 1 hour. However, another problem occurred, Melody had to come with the next plane, and that plane had our luggage. At first, we were so worried, but soon calmed down ourselves. Same day, we ate Chinese style lunch, and some were really typical. I really loved the fried-soy-bean which was crunchy outside and soft inside. After the lunch, we headed to the Black Dragon pool which only took us about 5 minute walk. The water was clean, and the air was fresh. There were so many green plants, that I enjoyed a lot. When we were almost the end of the walking, Melody finally arrived with our luggage. Then we walked around the old town of Lijiang, and had some shopping time. They sold so many things that we can find in Shanghai everywhere. I was quite disappointed because I had no presents for my family. At night, we went to listen to Chinese-style orchestra. It was so cool. The instruments were extraordinary, and people from Naxi and other minority showed their own style from own group. For example, the Chinese opera sung by an old man was so fun, but also cool and traditional. We were able to hear that music, and I was glad about them. The one major thing that was so amazing was that most of the players were like 70 above years old, and the oldest was 86! I couldn’t believe my eyes that such old men could manage to play those instruments. It was fantastic! Walking, we finally arrived to hotel where we desperately wanted. It was way~ better than last year's Yangshuo trip. It had hair dryer, clean towers, softer bed with good service. Also, it had no bugs!! My room mate-Debby and I felt happy^^

Day 2: In the morning we had breakfast. I have to say, the breakfast was so better! Last year’s trip’s breakfast was so dirty and unsafe, that no one dared to eat it. There were so many bugs swimming in the soup, and there were so many flies that politely lied on the cake and enjoyed the suntan (?) or enjoying us screaming about it. After, we rode on bus to go to the Jade Snow Mountain which is high above 5319m and if you look at it from far side, you may see the snow covering the top of the mountain. It was so beautiful and magnificent. This mountain is one of the highest mountains in LIjiang. We took cable car and went to up to 4680m. It took more than 3 hours to get to the cable car but eventually reached there. When we reached, I was so hyper about standing up so high. The snow was covering the mountain; it was so high that I felt dizzy, but with happiness. Yet my body was not able to stand this high. I was so frustrated about myself, and I used all my energy and managed reaching up to almost the 2/3 of the top where it was limited distance. I got headache and I seriously felt like throwing up, nevertheless reaching the ground I was fine like if there was nothing happened. We went to Chinese local school. The pupils were around 15~17 years old that at first we were quite nervous. Also, they asked us to perform some show, which we never noticed, and had nothing. Hopely, Naomie and Yuki sand duet song, and Jimmy played piano so that the problem was solved. I and Debby were in same group with 4 local students. They taught us many surprising facts about their school. They have to study from 8 am to 10 pm! They showed us their classrooms which had full of studying books on each of the desks. The size of the school just made me jealous. They have 4 shops in school and so many places to have picnic!!!! I was so sad that my school is so small. Still, I had fun time with them^^

Day 3: The morning call was at 7:15 am; hence Debby and I were able to sleep a bit longer. Having cup of coffee in my room, Debby slept again. I had hard time waking her up. Finally, leaving about 10 minutes, we were readied for the new activity. 2 hours of drive was like lullaby, we were able to sleep quietly. Reaching Tiger leaping gorge, I was so amazed at its beauty. Yet, when I checked the schedule, I realized I had to walk/trek about 6 hours! Plus, we had to go upwards. Despaired and sad, have I realized that we had to walk 25 km for 2 days! I was so shocked, but had some curios of climbing this long distance. We started walking, upwards, in about 15 minutes I found out that I was already tired. But walking with all my strength I finally reached the Naxi guest house, after 2 hours. When everybody arrived, we had lunch! Just about 30 minutes later, we started to walk again, to fill up the rest of 4 hours. Walking and walking, my skin got dried because of sunlight, and it was bloody all over. I was coughing so much, and had a bit of headache. After walking about 1 hour, I was swearing everywhere when there was nobody. Well, I thought there was nobody. Suddenly, I heard somebody speaking Korean to me, and she was a Korean tourist. She heard about my school trip, and she treated me kindly. She was riding on the horse, which is really expensive. She let me rode on her horse about 10 minutes. I was almost crying for save my some of life. Saying goodbye, I had to start the nightmare again. Then, this time, a boy from y10 called Joe led me ride his horse 'til the end! I was rescued by humen today! I couldn't believe my eyes! At night, we had great time with dancing Naxi traditional folk dance around the bon-fire.

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