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EOTC Trip – “ Lijiang” Mar. 23rd Mon Shanghai-Pudong/Lijiang Lijiang Liwang Hotel The bus departed from CP campus for Pudong Airport at 5:00. It was still very dark and it was scary. Board on flight to Kunming and change the flight to ligiang. During the flight, I and Jamie watched a movie which is called Koizora. It was such a romantic story and both of us cried in the airplane. I think it is one of the best stories I’ve ever heard. Just before leaving Kunming to Lijiang, Melody lost her boarding ticket, and everyone was kind of panicking so our luggage arrived at Lijinag delayed and everyone was really annoyed. Our entire luggage’s arrived at hotel at night. We had lunch at NO.8 Restaurant which was Chinese style. The food in Lijiang was better than I was expected. Afterwards, we walked from Lijiang Old Town to visit Black Dragon Pool. The scenery of Black Dragon Pool was magnificent. I took millions of pictures with Jamie. We had dinner at Little Parris restaurant and relaxed in Lijiang Old Town, went shopping with Jamie and bought souvenirs. Afterwards, we walked back to the hotel. I shared the room with Erica. Erica locked in the door and couldn’t get out from the room. She was scared of the darkness, screamed and shouted for the others help.

Mar.24th Tue Lijiang Lijiang Liwang Hotel Morning wake-up call rang at 7:00. We had a breakfast at hotel. This time, me and Erica locked out the door and couldn’t go into the room, we were late and everyone was waiting for us. We drove to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. And took the cable car to visit the glacier Park(4506m) at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. It was very cold so we borrowed very thick jackets. The scenery of there was splendid. I loved it, but unfortunately while I was climbing up to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, suddenly I felt so nauseous and nearly fainted. I was lack of oxygen and needed to gain more oxygen. The hero Jamie rescued me so much. Jamie helped me to go down by the cable car and slept for half an hour. Jamie and I couldn’t climb up to top of the mountain. I felt very guilty for him. I was really appreciated for Jamie’s kindness and I’m happy that I got recover quickly. Afterwards, we drove back to Lijiang and had a lunch at Damabang Restaurant. After lunch, we drove to Local School. We visited Locoal school and had culture exchanges. Local students and we showed our performances with one another. They sang their school song for us. It great and one of their students played the Lijiang traditional instrument for us. It was amazing and very interesting. Me, Jamie and two of their local students walked around their campus and talked about their school and as well as our school. They were very friendly to us.

Mar.25th Wed Lijiang-Tiger Leaping George Tea Horse Guesthouse Morning wake-up called at 7:30 and had a breakfast at hotel again. We drove to Qiaotou Town which took 2 hours to arrive there. We started trekking on the mountain. After we left the bus, I noticed that we had to bring our clothes and everything with us but I and Jamie didn’t. He misunderstood Ms.Parks and told me that we could leave our stuffs on the bus and can get the stuffs in the afternoon so next day, I had to climb down the mountain without contact lenses and had to wear the same clothes over night. The clothes were so wet and was very disgusting. The scenery from the mountain was amazingly beautiful. I was speechless by the magnificent scenery. We had lunch at Naxi Family. We were trekking on the mountain (24km) for 7 hours. Although the trekking was really exhausted and I was dying during the trekking, I’ve never climbed up the mountain and it was a very memorable experience for me. We trekked to Tea Horse Guesthouse and had dinner there. We had a born fire as well which was very boring. Me and Erica were chatting for whole night and waking lots of our neighbor up late. Because the wall of the room was so thin so everyone could hear me and Erica’s conversations.

Mar.26th Thu Tiger Leaping George-Lijiang Lijiang Liwang Hotel Morning wake up call rang at 7:30 and had breakfast at Guesthouse. We trekked to Half way Guesthouse. I had no contact lenses so I had to climbed down the very steep mountain without contact lenses which was super dangerous. I could barely see. I tripped over for 4 times but fortunately didn’t get seriously injured and all of us made it. We trekked to Tina’s house and had lunch there. We took minibus to Qiatou and change to bus and finally I and Jamie could change our clothes and achieved to wear contact lenses. We drovw back to Lijiang and had free time so I,Jamie,Kenneth and Wayne went shopping and bought many souvenirs. We had dinner at Longyaoxiang Hotel and we went to the Internet Bar and typed up journals for two hours.