Alyssa's reflection

OELP trip reflections

Over the span of merely 7 days,  I have learnt a lot about China. I have learnt about her history, culture and heritage. However, I would love to learn more about China's impact on Singapore as I did not learnt much about it during the trip. I have learnt a lot about the people in China, their beliefs and a lot of their values.  I could tell that he people in China believes in preserving their historical sites and their tradition since there were a lot more historical sites in China than in Singapore and through this, younger generations might learn to appreciate the things they have. In the past, they did not have printers, pens, pencil, correction tape or liquids, not even an eraser, so they had to use olden writing brushes and printing methods to records things. When using these methods, one mistake will cause you to repeat doing or writing everything again as u will not be able to correct the mistake using erasers or correctness tapes. This also shows that the people in China are very patient and are willing to learn. When I saw the lady in the museum writing, I was amaze at how neat and nice her writing was. She was also very careful as she did not even make a single mistake. I am sure that it takes a lot of practice so as to write like the words were printed out and I admire the amount of effort they put in and the amount of patience they had.  Also, I think that the people in China are very optimistic. When a lightning struck a tree, splitting it into two, they used a part of it to grow up another crop on it. It is also said that the crop meant that everything will be alright. Even though that part of the tree was dead, the locals gave another plant to grow with the help of its trunk. This shows that the locals do not give up easily and also as the saying goes 'every cloud has a silver lining', they took the opportunity to make the best put of it. I thinks it was rather creative for them to do so as I think no one would have thought of doing the same in Singapore, partly because we do not have enough space.

I am proud to be a Singaporean as Singapore is one of the safest countries and the government does its best to give everyone in Singapore a good life. We have financial assistance schemes to help those in financial difficulties a helping hand as much as possible and  we have advance technologies in our hospitals with doctors specializing in different aspects of health so as to provide a better treatment for those in Singapore.

The exterior of some buildings were left as they were, keeping the olden design and patterns while the inside were turned into cafes and other stores. They were also museums on China's history and culture, promoting them to the public. I think that Singapore should have more shops with both interior and exterior designs like those in the past however with modern shops occupying them. Also, involving different cultures an traditions in our everyday learning so we do not only learn about Chinese culture but also cultures of those around us nice Singapore is a multi-racial country.