My Trip to the Ice City

Hello Everyone~!

How are you? I hope all of you are now prepared for the new term.

Sorry for my late update of the blog, I was traveling during Chinese New Year and when I was back to school I was busy with my new lesson plans.

I'm very excited and happy to share my tour to the Ice City of China with you. During Chinese New Year, I went to the 3 Northeastern Provinces of China (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning). It was my first time to places like this cold. How cold? Minus 10 to 20 degree Celsius, that means, much colder than the refrigerator at your home!

For so many days we spent, it didn't snow, but we saw snow everywhere. The photo above shows me in a skiing site at Harbin. There I had my first ski experience. I first thought skiing is a difficult sport, after I tried, I just love it! It's not too difficult to ski.

On the 3rd day we visited the Harbin Ice World. There, you can see tall ice castles and ice lamps. It's just BEAUTIFUL! It was the coldest night of the entire trip, I believe temperature there was only -25 degree Celsius. And that was the only time my camera couldn't function well.

It was very cold to step on the snow, normal shoes we wear are not thick enough to keep the cold air from invading into our feet. In order to keep my feet warm, I put a hot bag (the small one you probably put in your pocket during winter) under each of my foot. If I don't do this I can't imagine whether I can stand 2 hours on snow!

I'll share more about my trip in the upcoming blog entries, so stay tuned.

Love,
Miss Nickie