My Trip to WUHAN!!!: Paper Cutting

So today during lunch, Irfanah and I were waiting for some of our friends to print their notes outside one of the printing shop and outside we saw many packages. I then remembered what a lecturer who had previously gone to Wuhan told us. Basically, in China there’s and online shopping website called TaoBao where you can buy anything and in every area, there is a P.O box where you can send your items that you have ordered to be collected. All you have to do is present your receipt of purchase to the employee and you can collect you parcel and it seemed like today was a busy day among people who had bought things online as the outside area of the shop was flooded with parcel and there was at least 20 or more parcels there. Another thing I noticed, I’ve been going into shoe shops recently and I realized tha the largest size for females is 39 and some of my female friends are between sizes 40-42 and they have no choice but to buy shoes from the guys section which is quite sad as some of the shoes in the girls section are really nice and it’s a good thing I’m size 39 so I still have a chance. However, the shoes that I relaly wanted, a high top light grey coloured with white polka dots on one side and a nice big yellow ribbon did not have my size!!! Their largest was 37 and I was really upset as I totally fell in love with the shoe as soon as I saw it!! I had to end up settling for another shoe. In the afternoon, we headed to the English Saloon, which is located on the 6^th floor of the Foreign language School and it really does live up to its name. The inside really does look like an English Saloon. We were having our paper cutting lesson in there where we learnt how to cut paper in different forms. Before we started, the instructor told us about the different uses of the different types of pattern. There were designs such as the zodiac animals and fish and even a special one, the snake, since it’s the year of the snake but we weren’t going to do the difficult ones since we barely knew anything about his art. We start off by making the circle by which we folding the paper into a triangle and cut the excess paper away. Then we fold in in half 2 more times and cut a rounded edge. It must not be too round as it may form a flower-like shape and after that we are allowed to draw whatever design we want and cut it out. I think we had a lot of fun designing and cutting out our designs and it was really funny to see all the weird designs like for example, Wei Seng drew a horse on his while Priscilla drew a pig on hers and it was really entertaining watching them cut it out as their designs were really difficult to cut out. In the end, my design turned out quite nice and I even did another one!!

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