Hey. I'm val. Today was quite an interesting day. We learnt about chinese culture from this china guy. Most of us barely understood what he was talking about. Our chinese doesn't suck that bad! It's just his really strong accent! Anyway the first part before recess, he was kind of teaching us stuff and writing things on the board. Vanessa and I & Lisa and Pearlene were doing the 'find as many words as you can from one word' game. I don't know the name of that game. We did 'encyclopedia'. (sarah: i checked the dictionary; there's only one 'a'.) yar. anyway. Vanessa found like 115 and I only found like 84! Then Lisa wanted to beat Vanney. So Laura helped Lisa and they ended being a team, and Vanney and I put together ours. I don't know who had more words in the end, but it sure was a lot of FUN! We drew and painted these chinese masks things. And everyone drew the white parts and joint the eyebrow thingies together. Except for me... And then we all chose the nicest FIVE! And there was Rochelle's and Pinkie's and Chien Wen's and Laura's and (someone i can't remember at the moment, sorry!). But those masks were really really really nice!! We have great artists man! Later on, some people tried the big china kimono-looking dress thing. And it was really HUGE! Hahaha. I still remember Natalie and Sarah... They looked so adorable :D And then there were those sword thingies. Pearlene and Shi pei tried. I thought they were pretty good at it. The swords looked fun! Hahaha. Anyway it was quite a fun lesson, though i still think that the retreat yesterday was funner! Wheeeee... Such a pity. We have to get back our papers tomorrow... :0 okay then. byebye :)