After breakfast, we returned to school for a welcome speech by the director of the school (or sth like that). Also listened to a few speeches by the student in charge of the programme and chantel.
WHU has many years of history, and they have ALOT of various schools and courses. the director also showed us some photos of the school, and I felt that the scenes in the university were a blend of chinese and some western, new and old? I guess they have the capability to hold so many courses coz of demand. well, you dont get to see them in singapore, so I was impressed again.


well speeches made me ZZzzzzZZ, so u can imagine how glad I was when we started on the campus tour.


Other student hostels in whu. The buildings looked abit old, but one can still live in it la. Anyway some of the buildings in WHU are actually preserved buildings. imagine having them in ntu. :D

If NTU ever has such areas for students to study, all of us would be scorched to death, seriously.
we passed by this pond with a pavilion. everything felt so 诗情画意. imagine urself making poetry there under the moonlight (while ignoring all the mosquitoes buzzing around :D) the only place in ntu that could get close to this was the yunnan garden (which has been fully utilized during 中秋节only, in my opinion :(


Pictures of the pavilion. It reminded me of this super long pavilion in the emperor garden? in beijing.

track in school. place where I used to have my jogging trips with xue ping.

ray kindly took a photo for guan and me during our last day in wuhan. its pretty obvious that it was a posed jogging shot :D

we also visited this high tech school. According to the people there, the school is quite well known for its courses. think NUS law and u'll get my point.

we were ushered? into a theatre, which unfortunately has cool big and comfy seats. considering that I was damn tired already, anyone can make a guess whether I fell asleep during the talk. even nice chen yee was telling me that she was trying hard NOT to sleep throughout the talk. well, some of us saw guo ming sleeping in the front row lor. I wished I had his courage. felt like I was in the Singapore Discovery centre coz of all those virtual reality shows. I wonder whether you can see NTU in 3D form like what they showed for WHU. hahas.

Ji suan ji xue yuan, and the area near it.

This structure is near the other gate of the 副校区in WHU. If I didnt remember wrongly (again), it signifies peace or something like that.

As expected, we took a shot near the structure :D

After the tour in the 副校区, we went to the 主校区which is apparently much bigger. (and many times bigger that the whole of NTU?) walked to 樱花道, where we heard that 樱花s blossom during the season. Think Japan during that period. and imagine NTU having such a thing. It'll be a GREAT change from all those green trees and sceneries we see throughout the year (though I dont deny they're nice to see as well)

well, as they said, 天下没有免费的午餐. if you want to see the magnificant view at 樱顶, you have to walk hard for it. See the stairs welcoming us? For once, I was GLAD that the looong flight of stairs from the south spine to Nanyang Auditorium was not like this. And I even remembered xue ping or ivy? telling me once that she doesnt have to climb the flight of stairs as often as I do. Bleah.

after some struggle (and many groans and moans), we reached the 老图书馆 near 樱顶! we were awed by the atmosphere inside the library. the interior looked very 古色古香,with all those furnishings and the students were ALL hard at work. I dont think the atmosphere inside Lee Wee Nam library, or any other library can match such an atmosphere. well, it was near their exam period when I took this shot, but still... its inspiring!

we were able to climb up the flight of this ancient looking stairs to reach 樱顶. I felt all the grumbles slipping away to the back of my brain when I saw the great view. it was kind of windy up there, and we could see 珞珈山in the distance. if the ntu peeps want to have a similar feeling, just go to nanyang house or the top level in students affair office. although you wont get to see mountains, (u'll see alot of HDB flats though),but still, the view's not bad lar. :D




of course, we took more photos.

I forgot when was the time we had lunch. we went to one of those really big canteens where there were hell alot of people inside. I dont think canteen A is even that crowded during the peak lunch hour! But then, their canteen's really big as well, so it isnt a fair comparism :p


the lunch we ate