My Class Excursion and Mini Home Renovations.

Wednesday 2 April, 2014 

¥5.00           Milk (For ma Cereal!)
¥100.00        Wifi (Two Months)
¥12.00         Dinner
¥20.00         Laundry Coupons
¥2.00           Pineapple(¥139.00)

Thursday 3 April, 2014 
¥6.00           Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)
¥45.00        Shoe Rack
¥7.50           Snack (Hand Held Pancake)
¥7.00           Dinner
¥9.80           Convenience Store (Bulldog Clips)
(¥74.50)

Total: ¥213.50 ($38.35)

Weekly Total: ¥996.95 ($178.98)

Total Spend: ¥18851.65 ($3555.45 AUD)

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Let's start with some beautiful shots of scenery!

This was taken at the South side of Xihu near the Tulip garden. 

Tulips of all colours in full bloom!

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This morning I was very excited to have my first Australian breakfast. It took me a while to decided which cereal to open though but eventually I decided to have a childhood classic. 

White water + Coco Pops!

It was so deliciously good!!

I then couldn't resist.. I had some milk left so I decided to do my favourite thing: suck milk out of my Tim Tam biscuit like a straw! Definitely did not disappoint. What a great start to the day.

Today was actually a really good day as I didn't have class. Instead, we were going on a class excursion! This meant I also got to sleep in a little as we were meeting up at 1:00pm. (still woke up at 8:30am though sadly..)

First we all had to collect our food packs. Isn't that just the cutest concept!?

The boys carrying their lunch packs. It was actually quite heavy, and nobody wanted to carry it. Some of the girls tried to palm it off to the boys to get them to carry it for them but none of them did it... ha. Gentlemen.

This is what we had in each pack. Coke, water, two muffins, a pack of oreos, chinese biscuits and Danish butter cookies. 

We arrived at the Tulip gardens and were fighting through crowds to get a look...

 edsd It was a good fun trip to get to know my classmates. We ended with a nice picnic and a game of Mafia in Chinese, with two doctors, two assassins, and two police officers. 

After the trip we had dinner again at the Fujian restaurant, and after that went to the supermarket next door. I walked past the soy sauce section and noticed there was no Maggi!

<This is for ma cousin>

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Also another photo for my cousin.. today I had vegetarian for lunch! Actually I was just feeling cheap and cheap = vegetables here.

No meaaaattt :'( Ooh by the way my portion of rice costs 19kuai! That's literally 3 cents!

 I rushed lunch because I thought painting class was at 1pm, but when I arrived at the classroom and saw Chinese boys sitting in a row I realised something was wrong. Turns out class was at 3pm (Callig class is at 1pm.. woops!) So I decided to clean my room.

Wow what a mundane post. Anyway, cleaning is a pretty big deal for me because my room is a shitstorm back home. 

I swept, then vacuumed, I have my sheets in the laundry, I tidied my desk.. this is truly a brand new me! I'm also collecting glass bottles here (See top right). They're super cheap, say $2-3 with a drink or food. They're a bit heavy but I'm trying to find things to do with them.. 

Finally went to painting class. Painting class is the bane of my existence. I took this sneaky of the teacher showing a student him copying the picture. He didn't teach us any techniques though, we kind of have to go in blindly and just copy a picture to the best of our ability. I completely lost motivation. Luckily I was sitting next to a pretty cool German girl today so I had good conversation to keep me company.

I copied another picture of some root vegetable. I chose the picture because it was hairy. 

Fascinating news!! I was so swept up in this cleaning routine that I decided to organise my shoes by buying a new shoe rack!! I am in love with tidiness. I actually had a sea of shoes scattered all under my wardrobe before this came along.

No more messy cords!! 

 I'm so proud of myself. Today has been a good, clean day.

This weekend is a national holiday, so we have decided on a last minute trip to go to Wuxi, which is in Jiangsu Province, not far from Hangzhou. Going to be there for the weekend, so my next blog will be when I return! Good bye human beings!