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day 5 was purely a sight-see cum shopping day. for the sight-see part, we went to a church, where i confessed to god the sins that i had atoned in the past, seeking his forgiveness, although i am a buddhist, but we din go to chinese temples so i shall make do with the church. ok this is meant to be funny, so for the devoted christians pls dun condemn me.
next we went to the queen of peace monument, where we took nice jump shots and group photos. its great that we have wang da around, because he is light and he is flexible, so can take very nice group shots with him as the centre of attraction.
the third place is a sugar plantation. first we took a choo choo train ride around the plantation.
and then we took a horse carriage ride to somewhere inside the plantation to "enjoy" a traditional mauritius dance performance called SEGA (i wondered why is it not called nintendo or playstation). the reason for putting the inverted commas on the word enjoy is because the dancers seemed a bit buay3 gan1 muan3 to dance, particularly this overweight lady, which make her thoughts known on her face, and quoting from dear mr nzj, these words can be written clearly on her face:"我为什么会在这里跳舞给你们看..."
i think the feelings were mutual, because most of us were thinking:"我们为什么会在这里看你跳舞..."
ok nvm, after the entertaining performance, we were brought to see how sugar was made from sugarcane, and then we went to see a sugar museum, and each of us was given a small cup of rum to try, and then we walked around the plantation where the tour guide introduced to us the different spices, plucking out the leaves to let us smell the fragrance of the spices. we smelt curry, pepper, coriander and parsley. mosquitos were biting us and enjoying our sweet blood, and the tour guide took some aloe vera, and tell us to apply the aloe vera chap on our bites, and miraculously the itching stopped!
the highlight of this sugar plantation is that we danced the "大四排"!!! :)
(most of the singing was done by me and xuehong hahahahahaha)
after lunch we went shopping! din shop much, because the prices of the adidas sports apparel were around the same as singapore. but i still bought a purple color tshirt for myself, and a pair of very nice sandals for darling. :)
while walking back to our mini bus, we saw the mauritius ministry of education!
too bad xuehong, zhimin and yeelian were not with us.
in the evening we went back to the CCC again, where we had a short exchange program with the mauritian chinese dancers. the chinese dance instructor happens to noe ding laoshi, when both of them were dancers at beijing dance academy. wat a small world.
a dance workshop was conducted by wang da for the dancers. i must say that the dancers have very good technique, and very flexible! anyway they belong to the A class. hahahaha. so after the workshop, we performed two items for them, which is Beyond, and wang da's solo item. they also performed two items for us, which is a 苗族 dance, and one girl performed the SEGA dance. this girl was definitely one thousand times better than the overweight dancer at the sugar plantation. the way she shake her hips is so full of energy, and the smile on her face when she dance is very attractive.
ok let me show you wang da's solo item. watch it 100 times also wun get sick of watching it. and look out for the trademark move at 2 min 16 s! cheng cheng cheng cheng! u can see this trademark move in quite a few pics.
we had the third round of 11-course dinner! this time the dinner was treated by the organising committee of the 60th anniversary celebrations. it was really fun. we ate, drank, chit chatted and even had a singing session. we had sort of a PK 赛: the singaporeans vs the mauritians. hahaha. we sang 关怀方式，细水长流，小人物的心声. the mauritan chinese sang theresa teng songs. and while singing, some of us were using chopsticks to hit on the wineglass to generate background music, and dunno who is so champion that hit the wineglass so hard until the wineglass broke. hahahahaha. very very memorable. :)
and we appeared on the papers again! haha.
ok that's the end of day 5!!! when we went back to our hotel we still continued drinking by the pool because its our last night at casa florida.
