I'm baack from BSP trip! :D
Actually I was arrived in Singapore yesterday night, but I had to go home and study last minute for my Jap Os today, so I'm only blogging now. Jap Os paper one was okayy, I guess. :)
Omg I totally love Jiangsu Haimen! I love my host family! 姜杰灵, 姜叔叔 and 姜阿姨. They were so sweet to me and Cass! 姜杰灵's parents called us "小马" and "小郭" there. I couldn't bear to leave them yesterday, I was the only silly person out of the 5 who had to leave early for Jap examinations who cried.
Oh, the melamine-food crisis. Everyone drank milk there! Well... our hosts offered us, so we couldn't reject, could we? Anyway they did assure us that the milk's safe; after all they would be more worried than us.
FOOD! My host family's really very generous with food. The appetizers normally consist of about 8 dishes, there are about 4-6 main dishes and then they serve the staple food, rice or noodles. Normally Cass and I would be really full after trying all of the dishes, and skip the staple food. There were all sorts of foods which I've never thought of trying/ seen in Singapore. I ate all sorts of meat in my first dinner, the night I arrived in Haimen! There's like chicken, pork, beef, mutton, fish, prawns and even sparrow meat! O.O The prawns were like drunk; they were raw and immersed in a whole plate of wine. Oh and there was dimsum too, this really nice fried pumpkin rolls. We tried everything out of courtesy, but actually they tasted pretty good, just that I'm still not used to eating sparrows. Actually the food there is much more oily than Singapore food, and we ate quite alot, so I guess I must've grown fatter! :( There were a couple of drinks I liked there too; 王老吉, this very nice herbal tea which has a very unique taste, and 玉米露, a corn drink, both I think are not found in Singapore. 叔叔 knows we like the drinks, and bought us some to bring back to Singapore! :)
Shopping! I'm quite glad to say that I haven't shopped much this trip, on my wants, but I spent quite alot on my gold bomber jacket (200RMB, which means about $40), the one I'm wearing in my photos, and was quite guilty after that. I spent a whole lot on food and gifts for people! In fact, most of my money went to food. I grabbed boxes and boxes of pockys and pejoys on the last night of my stay at the supermarket, they're not for me, in fact they're for my friends! :D I bought a cute panda tee at the airport though, together with Cindy. I don't like shopping at the airport! Everything's so expensive. :(
I shall post some pictures which I'd koped from 叔叔's camera, and my handphone. My camera screwed up, with a darker shade which affected all of my pictures! Most of my nice pictures are with Nicole Tan and Angelina, who're still in China.

A nice group photo together! 姜阿姨, 姜杰灵, Cass, Me and 姜叔叔.
南通大道, on our drive to Suzhou to play on Sunday. It's really cold and windy there!

The three kids.

The three of us + 姜叔叔.

Omg 阿姨 is so cute! :)

叔叔!

At the entrance of 苏州乐园, a theme park which I'd never heard of, but it's really cool!

Round and round the horse carousel! :D
Dinner that night, in the restaurant of a hotel.
Lots of dishes!
I was pretty fascinated by the smiley face on my serving of 大闸蟹. :D
This is the 电视塔! I really thought it looked like the imitation of the Eiffel Tower. :D
Me posing with 叔叔's car!
This is random. I caught a super big fish, together with Cui Ting, Nicole, and Angelina on our fishing trip! It's really pretty, isn't it? :) But I feel sorry for it; it was cooked in our dinner, but I didn't eat any of it.

Another random picture. I like 阿姨's 肉包子s! She made them herself. It's a snack made of carrots and meat, wrapped with beancurd skin. I mistook them for my favourite white round paus when she said she was going to make them for us though. Vocab difference!

I lugged home seventeen boxes of special flavoured pocky/ pejoy biscuit sticks! There's only fifteen boxes here 'cos I just sold 2 boxes of tiramisu flavoured pejoys to Cui Ting today. They taste good, they're not available in Singapore (though it was featured in one of our urban magazines before- tiramisu flavour) and they're CHEAP! :D I bought them for my dear friends!

There's chocolate with red wine, tiramisu, chocolate mousse, dark chocolate, blueberry, cheesecake and matcha flavours! :)

They gave Cass and me each a BIG 布娃娃! It's really cute! :D