Overall reflection by Yuyang

Unfortunately I didn't go for the trip but I did learn a lot from my group mates who went there and gathered quite a lot of information when preparing for the presentation.

First of all,China students really had a tight schedule to follow when studying.My group mates told me that all students of china have to go through高考 which is a really tough examinations and millions of students aimed to get into the top universities.Competition is extremely stiff and everyone there really worked very hard to achieve their targets.They wake up at around 6 and leave the school at around 9 every night.They work double as hard.This makes me realise how lucky i am to study in Singaoire whereby there's a smaller population thus less stress.Also,the students in china did not have CCAs,all they do ins to study all day long.Here in Sinagore,we have a school life that's much more engaging than in China.I find it true because I had a cousin who had just been through 中考(O-level) and he told me that he envied me for being able to come to Singapore to study.This is extremely close to my life and i am glad that my group members and I shared the same point on we should all learn from the china students.This inspires me to work harder because it made me realise how stiff the competition is between Singapore and china.

Secondly,I would like to reflect about the food there.Food to me is actually a representation of the culture that the certain province have.I told my group members to take a picture of the food that they eat everyday.They told me it's just too oily.Most of my group members came from 福建 originally and that province is actually known for its preference over health food that don't require that much oil and salt.It made me realise that although we might all like Chinese food in overall, but when it branches down into each province's preference to the way that how the food is cooked, they can have quite different taste buds.Same same but different.

Thirdly,my group members told me that the streets of Shanghai are actually quite dirty but it had been engaged in recycling efforts.This made me recalled what my grandpa said about this issue.He said that both littering and recycling require one took take up a certain type of initiave.Most people recycled due to the belief that recycling is the new black.At his point of view he thinks that recycling is more troublesome than stop littering.Thus he find it weird to see people obsessed with recycling but chose to litter on streets.He said in order to stop littering,a certain amount of fine is needed,just like Singapore.However unlike Singapore,China had a large population to monitor over and a certain proportion of people came from the countryside whereby they don't even get proper educations on social responsiblies.In this way,I feel that Sinagore is doing quite a good job on stopping the act of littering on streets and it's probably thanks to the highly educated population.

Last but not least,I feel that I really regretted not going for the trip as it is a chance for me to better bond with the class.However,I still feel that I learnt a lot of stuff when I linked what my group mates saw and what I had experienced.