— please ignore my title
Few days ago grade 9 and 10went on a field-trip to Heishui and the glaciers there.Everybody was excited and curious about the glaciers.I’ve lived in Chengdu for 15years but I’ve never been there.Sunday morning I carried my luggage out of my house thinking:” this is going to be a da** good trip.” and I just get hyper at 6:30 in the morning and the bus was so early that it is even earlier than schooldays.
On our way to Heshui we went to Yinxiu first to visit the earthquake museum there,I’ve been in Yinxiu in 2009 when the rebuild was just starting,and every thing is different now since the museum was built.It’s been a hard time for Sichuan to overcome this, but we did it,and this visit reminded us how human can be.The museum was kind of small but by the side of it there is a cemetery for those victims of 5.12 earthquake. It is rally holy and sad because Chinese people never wanted to share such a big grave.The reason that people are buried here is that we couldn’t identify the dead because the power of the earthquake was huge , so all we could do is bury them immediately to avoid disease.
The second spot of our trip was a Qiang village where the minority of Qiang people still remained in the village. After settling in a guesthouse we took our first hike in a near small hill there (and my last one).The most impressive thing I remembered is the wind up there, because the village is placed in a valley,and the mountain beside was high so the wind was a kind of…uh…. Naughty. All of us were so excited and a lot of photos were taken,the view up there was great.On the top pg that hill, Mr.B told us a lot about the formation of those hills and the recycle of rock on earth. For the first time I realize the explosion of volcano is powered by pushes between continent and the magma is actually melted recycled rock.This talk was really lively because we actually saw some quartz in the crack of a huge rock, and this quartz was melted SiO2 long time ago, and in the formation of hills it filled into those cracks.The ancestor of Qiang people used those quartz to make fire, and now Qiang people worship this “white stone” as a special religion symbol.
After hiking up to the hills we visited a old Qiang house, and it has a huge basement and the water of whole ancient village was controlled by this old family.Our guide is the 54th generation of this old family.He said this family has existed for 1200 years, and the house has 72 doors in total.This building impressed me a lot because it experienced the 5.12 earthquake in 2008 however it didn’t break even a little bit, and the two wooden columns at the center of the house was made from two old deodar trees, and these are really tall that they actually go through 6 floors(about 20 meter’s tall).
After lunch we went up to the roof trying to see any stars, however we forgot we were at the bottom of a valley,so we failed .At that night I made a mistake, and I truly regret it now.I drank some beer and the next morning when Mr.B found it he was rally mad at both my roommate and me. So we were both sent home because I sighed a form that said we were nit allowed to drink any alcohol and it is also illegal to drink it at my age in China.When I was on my way home, I truly understood the rules I have to obey.And I realized what a beautiful view we had outside of the bus windows.I was always looking at my phone at the first day, and I missed so many beautiful views!My heart began to hurt so deeply.
“And you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
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Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home”
With this song playing in my phone , I gradually fall asleep on the bus home.
the end