Welcome to Chengdu
When my mother searched online, she found the website for ChinaWay volunteer activities, and thought I should join as well because it would be a great opportunity for me to be introduced to teamwork and living alone. It would also be a great help for college applications. Right when school was over and summer was starting, I follow my mother’s instructions and went to the plane to Chengdu.
At 3 pm, I arrived at Chengdu. Because the plane was late, they told me that there would be an escort at the airport. Right at the airport exit, there was a ChinaWay volunteer lady holding a sign to pick me up. I thought it was nice, now I wouldn’t need to call anyone or do anything else. She and I talked a little, saying that there was a lot of other volunteer people who also arrived at Chengdu. Then, the lady told the taxi driver to deliver us and other volunteers to the meeting room to meet with the other volunteers. At 4 pm, we arrived at the meeting room. Other teachers passed us all orange t-shirts with the company logo on it and nametags. Everyone wore similar clothes with the other volunteers, and the clothes were very bright and noticeable. I found that almost everyone could speak both Chinese and English. My English is not that good, so it was a good chance to learn! Later, we did a short introduction with simple categories like name, grade, and where we came from. Then we did a name game, where the loser would do push-ups. It was hard to remember other people’s English names. I tried desperately to remember the twenty different volunteer names and was very scared that I would lose, but still was able to remember a lot of names. Later, we played cards and was free to do anything we wanted. At noon, we ate some food, which was boring. I then started to sleep. Halfway into my nap, some new volunteers came and I didn’t realize it. I asked an instructor who told me some of them came with their grandfather or mother, and some came by themselves. The biggest group though came from San Francisco from the same plane. There was around 7 or 8 people. Because their plane was late, when they came, the sun had already set. We quickly split into 4 groups. These 4 groups would be the teaching group that would teach the students. However, our computer software group was not there. The instructors told us to get acquainted with out groups so I went to find our computer group. With our teacher, we have a total of 5 people. The teacher is very fat, always holding his fan, sitting on his chair, talking humorously. Another group member named Owen did not like to talk, he seemed autistic, and very cute. The other two members were one called Haobo, who liked to shake his head, and Eric, who is our team captain. The instructor gave us all nicknames, the most memorable one was the one for Haobo. Because he was always shaking his head and saying he does not understand, the teacher called him "Don’t Understand". I am looking forward for working with this group.
After about an hour, we took our luggage from the fourth floor to the bus and then got on the bus. After I put my clothes and nametag on the top rack for stowing luggage, I started sleeping. After we drove for about an hour, we arrived at the hotel, SanYuanJu. After we took the luggage out of the bus, we split up into rooms. I thought that the room would have bath towels and soap and did not expect none of those. After I took a shower, I slept with my roommate, Crystal, who was also a Chinese volunteer.
I had a rough start to my two week long stay in Chengdu, participating in the Chinaway program.
It all started the day I left home to travel to China. You see, I'm a fourteen year-old from Massachusetts. My parents deemed this an appropriate age to allow me some independence, mainly by letting me fly halfway across the world, alone. Of course, I was excited at the whole prospect of being on my own. But I was also nervous about all of the things that could've gone wrong on the trip. Would I forget something important, like my passport? Would I mess up at customs and border control, and be held back? However, I missed the most glaringly obvious "what if", the one that all frequent fliers fear: delayed flights.
My first flight from Boston to San Francisco was delayed by two hours, as they told everyone on the plane. As we passengers were already boarded, we remained at the boarding gate unable to get off and switch flights. I desperately hoped that I would be able to make my connecting flight from San Francisco to Chengdu. One of the teachers from Chinaway, and many other students, would be on the same flight taking us to Chengdu. I only had a two hour layover time, and when the plane finally took off, I was mentally preparing myself to sprint to the gate of my second flight.
My worrying would be for nothing, though, as the other plane had already took off by the time I set foot into San Francisco's airport. With the help of my parents (on the phone), and the airline customer service counter, I ended up having to switch airlines. In fact, I managed to snag the last remaining seat aboard an Air China flight to Beijing, where I would take another plane to Chengdu.
I only remembered my other concern after the plane had taken off: my luggage. Since I switched airlines, my luggage destination and timing also needed to be switched. Along with my dad (again on the phone), I tried to arrange for the luggage to arrive when I landed in Chengdu. It ended up that my luggage arrived three days after I arrived.
In the end, I was the last person to get to Chengdu, arriving at the hotel at 3:00 in the morning the day the program started. It was strange, not having my luggage bag with me. I had to go out to buy necessities, but other than that, I had nothing extra to survive with. In close contact with my dad and one of the Chinaway teachers, I was able to get the luggage picked up and sent to the hotel we were staying at. Since that little adventure at the beginning, this trip has been amazing and unforgettable. - Sophie Zhang
Little Kids and Pandas
On the second day, I woke up early at 5 am. I couldn’t sleep anymore, so after I used the bathroom, I just laid on the bed reading on my phone. I read until 7:30 am, when my roommate’s alarm rang. Right after, I washed my face and brushed my teeth to prepare to eat breakfast at 8:00 am. Because my roommate is the ChinaWay volunteer, she hurried to help the foreign students get food. When it was close to 8:00 am, Crystal and I went down to eat breakfast.
The first meal that I had in Chengdu was indoors. We ate porridge and side dishes. We had three different side dishes. The first was peanuts. The second was spinach. The last was spicy tofu. When my roommate and I arrived, there was only 5 or 6 people there. Some people did not even come in the end. I think it was because the plane arrived too late yesterday. I think it was ok because there was still enough people to eat. Those people who did not live in China did not eat too much, probably because they thought it did not suite their tastes. Teacher Cindy told us if there was anything that we wanted to eat, we can tell the staff members and they would make it.
After we finished breakfast, both the teaching group and the computer group went to an activity. Though not everyone went, because a lot of people slept very late and were very jet lagged, so they didn’t go. We went to QiYiQingChengShan School, which I at first thought I would be surprised. However, there was not enough people, so we split into 4 new groups to teach 4 different classes. Because they didn’t tell us we would be teaching children English. The teaching materials and children took us by surprise, so we were all very embarrassed.
On day two of camp, we jumped many of us had never had an experience like it before. Having to juggle speaking an unfamiliar language, collaborating with your newly-assigned teammates, and dealing with twenty-seven rambunctious fourth-and-fifth-graders is definitely not an easy task. But it was a huge learning experience! I’ve noticed several things about C although their energy, at first, seems wild and randomly directed, it’s actually just a really enthusiastic attitude towards learning. Our problems with controlling them stemmed from the fact that they were too
every time we’d ask a question, we’d be answered by a loud chorus of “Me! Me! Me!” Students were so eager that sometimes they’d simply blurt out their thoughts, forgetting to raise their hands. During games, they became almost unbearably loud. Sure, these are problems, but at least the students are willing to learn, rather than apathetic. I, personally, find the change very refreshing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a classroom culture like this, and I love it. - Annie Zheng
Right after class, I talked a little with the little kids. They were either in school for enjoyment classes or make-up classes. The children we were teaching were primarily fourth and fifth graders. They were all very cute, none of them were naughty. We talked about how we would teach the children. Following the workbook, we read some English, felt it was pretty easy because they all were respectful. We also let them choose their own English names. Later we ran out of ideas on how we should teach the children, so we just let them outside to play. However some kids did not understand the rules, so we played “Eagle Catch Chicken.” However, later, we all got a little tired. In fact, teaching little children was very boring. Also having them listen to my instructions, it doesn’t seem very nice. When it was 12:00 pm, everyone got on the bus and went back to our hotel. When we got out of the bus, I went to the shop next door and bought some laundry detergent. I thought there would be laundry service for each room, didn’t think there wasn’t, so I was annoyed. After we finished lunch, those of the teaching group went back to the QiYiQingChengShan School to continue teaching. Those of the computer group, including me, went to the DuJiangYan Panda Reservation Center. We sat in a conference room for a little while, until the staff lady finished preparations. Our group then went to the office contemplating about how to make our panda · charity website and how to spread out the work among us. In the end, we decided that the website would be clean and simple. Work distribution would be me providing pictures and videos, as well as translating Chinese to English, and writing the daily activities for our group. Owen and Eric are to create the website. Haobo is to work partially on both, helping me translate to English, and helping Eric along the way. Time passed very fast. After a while, it was already 5 pm. The staff already ended work, so we left as well.
When we got back to the hotel, teaching group already came back. They said that the children were not easy to teach. Because the initial excitement already passed, they felt it was boring. One of the groups taught the children outside, with the results pleasing. Before we started dinner, I washed my clothes. After I finished, to prepare for dinner, the indoor room was too small, so we brought the table to the center courtyard. At 8:00 pm, the ChinaWay volunteer called us for a meeting. Around 8:30 pm, it was our American volunteers’ meeting. Teacher Cindy explained this organization, which should have been explained yesterday, but was delayed because people were late. The Chinese and American volunteers introduced themselves, while the Chinese volunteers seemed like housewives, each of them doing a certain task. For example, my roommate Crystal is in charge of the dormitory arrangements. Because Teacher Cindy is very busy, if we have any problems, we can ask the Chinese volunteers to help us.
Later, my roommate switched rooms because the SanYuanJu rooms were better, so we gave it to American volunteers. Just on time, there was a girl that was late because her plane was late so she got here at 3:30 am. She did not arrive in time for the room arrangements. Conveniently, we have a spot for her to move in, so now my roommate is Sophie.
Then I washed and slept.
Taking Care of Pandas
On the third day in Chengdu, I woke up very early. When I got to China, I waked up at around 5 or 6 every day. My new roommate was still sleeping, so I read a novel. Sophie’s attitude was very soft, very warm. At 6:30 am, my roommate woke up. Our hotel is shaped like an O. From the doorway, on the left is a steel door with no rooms. By the door on the first floor is our eating place, as well as the cashier and the kitchen. The second and third floors are dormitories. This way, anyone that comes out can be easily spotted.
After washing, it was still early, so Sophie and I decided on whether to leave the door open because the air was a little cleaner. When my roommate and I were walking and chatting, there was a girl that came out. She said that her roommate was still sleeping. She wanted to write her homework, but she did not want to wake up her roommate, so she came out. At 8:00 am, all three of us went to eat breakfast. We went early to eat, and now afterwards, us computer group are going to take care of pandas.
When we arrived at DuJiangYan Panda Reservation Center, the workers gave us special work clothes for us to wear. Around 9:30 am, the workers took us to the pandas TaiShan and LinBing homes. The rooms had two connected cages, but only one has a door that opens to the yard. When we arrived, the worker was already there and had already started working. He told me that ever 5 pandas had 3 workers to take care of them. He told us to use the broom and dustpan to sweep up the feces and leftover bamboo.
Then we used water to rinse off the floor. Then we washed the walls and floor, and then rinsed with water again. I think that once in a while, doing this would make their home cleaner. However if we did this every day, I wouldn’t be able to take it. I like to smash the bamboo on the ground, but I didn’t do it because I knew I could not smash it. I asked the worker, and he said that the bamboo needs to be smashed in order for it to be easier to eat. The workers picked up one end of the bamboo and smashed it into the floor, which was very fun. Both the pandas were very cute, and very obedient. Cutely eating the food was very cute! However, I saw the pandas in one bite, break a bamboo that was as thick as a glass cup. I felt like I got a heart attack. The worker told us to stay farther away from the panda, because if their teeth bit us, we could be horribly hurt. They said that the panda could eat about 15 kilograms of food per day. Those bamboo that the pandas did not eat would be swept out and put into little blue bins. Every day, a special car would come and pick them up, as well and the feces. After we cleaned up the panda stalls it was already 10:10 and so we went back to the office to work on the website. Then, half and hour later, we left again to go feed the pandas.
We split into two groups of two because we wanted to avoid frightening the pandas with too many people. The workers took out something yellow that looked like bread. Apparently, it was composed of corn flour, flour, and carrots. We fed each panda 2-3 big slices of the bread. Unfortunately, there was one panda whose leg was amputated. He was hurt and was rescued by the reserve from the wild. After a while, the other group came over to us. We fed three pandas, but the other group only fed two. After feeding the pandas, we went to the cafeteria to eat lunch. It was delicious! Back in the office, we worked until 2:30, when a staff member told us that we were to make some bread for the pandas.
When we got to the place that makes food. We had to put on blue airtight uniforms, which were very hot to wear. The flour and the water were mixing, so the four of us plus the supervisor walked around. Not long after, the worker got out a plate and thin towels, telling us to put the towels on the plate and place the plate on the table. The worker called the food buns (wo wo tou). I thought that it was very similar to buns. The flour’s texture was similar to clay, just that it was rougher. We put the flour in tight bundles, and shaped them into cylinders. I thought it was very hard. Even after we finished, I still did not fully understand how to make it. I asked the worker who made the buns, and she told me that 3 or 4 of them could in one day make 3 days’ worth of panda buns. If they work alone, they work faster. They only need about 20 minutes to finish making all of that.
Cleaning the tables was very easy. We just took a towel and wiped the table of the scraps and table infused flour. The workers washed the water to clean the floors of the flour. However, because the drainage pipe was at a higher level than the floor, we had to push the water to the pipe. After we swept the water, we had to wash the floors for the rest of the rooms. It was hard labor. Being with the airtight clothes, I started to sweat. After we finished, we went back to the office. By then it was almost 5:00 pm. We made a little bit more of the website. At 4:40 pm, the teacher that was to pick us up came. So we just sat in the car back to the hotel. On the way to the hotel, we passed a duck selling store. Our instructor went to buy a duck for us.
Us of the computer group came back, while the teaching group did not come back. The others say that they went shopping and out to eat. Aw they were so lucky, I want to go too! It’s just that walking is too far. After we put our stuff in our room, we went downstairs to eat duck. Teacher Cindy and our advisor talked a little, saying that a teaching group girl named Elizabeth got bitten by a cat. There was a small kitten in the classroom. The children like cats, so they all chased the cat. Elizabeth tried to catch the cat, so she got bitten. She had to take 4 shots for rabies.
Right after we finished eating, the teaching group came back. After getting themselves organized, I looked for the blog group leader so that I can get some pictures.
Later, my roommate, Sophie, and I went talked about shopping. We went to another hotel to tell the other Chinese Volunteers about going out. We also wanted to invite Crystal, but after we got to their dorm, they were planning their 8:30 pm meeting. I realized that in order to better teach the students, the volunteers held daily meetings in order to improve their teaching methods. Thus, I went back to my room in order not to disturb them. After a while, Sophie left to do something and I decided to go to bed.
Working Full-Time
On the fourth day, at 8:00 am, we of the computer group met up and went to the panda reservation center. Because there was no panda work to do today, we just stayed in the office and worked on making the website. The atmosphere was very good, except that there was no more water to drink. Originally, we planned to finish putting in the past few days of journals into the website and then interview some staff members who took care of the pandas, but in the end, we did not have enough time by 5:00 pm to finish.
At 12:00 noon, we went to the cafeteria to eat, costing each person 30 yuan. Because it was for staff members only, it was little more expensive. After we finished eating, me and Haobo took a stroll around the center. Because it was high noon and very hot, the pandas normally do not come out. However, we were very lucky. We did not walk far and saw a panda named "ZhiChun" (知春). They said it was adopted from Japan. However, our presense might have disturbed him. After a while, he slowly crawled back to his little home.
In the afternoon, Haobo and I translated more writing, while Owen and Eric put up on the website what we wrote. After 5:00 pm, we rode back to the hotel on the bus.
Work Hard, Play Hard
The fifth day of working! As of now we have completed a large part of the website. The homepage seems to be complete, as well as the basic structure for the articles. We will continue to update the article pages when we obtain new content. The only thing that we still need is a description of the program and photos to put on the gallery page.
Thus, today was spent finalizing designs on the website, since the skeleton was pretty much complete. We spent a large amount of time working on the home page’s banner. We experimented with what to put at the top of the page, from banners to headers to titles to descriptions. We finally decided on a description under the navigation bar, with a logo the right of the description. At the same time, we worked on a way to view all the activity journals from the home page. To do this we implemented a feature where clicking left and right on the arrow keys faded out the first set of articles and faded in the next set. At the same time, we had to do a lot of work to find out exactly how the arrows should look. In the end, Haobo designed the arrows on Microsoft Paint. They looked very nice and Owen and Eric modified the design to fit the needs of our website.
In the meantime, we updated the articles on the webpage. As such, there was not exactly that much work compared to the previous days and we had a lot of free time. During the free time we learned a lot about authentic Chinese culture through card games and mahjong. I never knew that Mr. He was so good at mahjong! After playing for a while under his tutelage I felt that I became a master myself. I realized that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of way to win at mahjong and win the most money. Of course, we did not play with real money!
We also did not go to the panda reservation center today. We worked straight from home on the website and it was both relaxing and fun. Mr. He even took us out to eat some authentic Sichuan food like Mapo Tofu and Dan Dan Mian. It was really good! I wish we can go out to eat again.
Preparations for and Examination
Today is the important last day, because tomorrow we have to turn in our website for checking.
In the morning we rode in a car to the Panda Reservation Center. Eric put the last bit of writing on the website. Because I was making the “Panda Charity Circle” Map, he helped me translate yesterday’s daily log to English and write it down. After I finished the “Panda Charity Circle” Map, I started working on translation work. I did not write yesterday’s daily agenda log. After I finished translating the rest of the text that needed to be translated, Eric and the others put the final page layout on the website and added the new pages, so I was very bored, walking around. A worker lady saw me pacing around and offered to take us around the reservation. I was very surprised because I didn’t expect that the worker would take the initiative to invite us. I agreed to go, and called Haobo as well. However, Owen and Eric seemed tired and did not want to go.
On the way, we saw the three-legged panda DaiLi (戴丽). He was found in the wild and was already injured, so he was amputated. The worker said that his name is shorthand for QiDaiZhanLi (期待站立). He normally does not leave his small home, so his yard is full of grass and plants. We also saw LinBing (林冰) again. He was from Thailand. When we saw him, he was just eating bamboo leaves. The worker lady that led us called his name two or three times, but he paid no attention to us. The worker said that when the pandas are eating or sleeping, they won’t pay attention to people. Later, we saw a panda that just came from Yunnan Wild Animal Park called MeiQian (美茜). There was also a panda that the worker called LaoDaGe (老大哥) which had a big temper. The worker lady said, once the workers fed that panda too slowly and he got mad, shaking the bars of his home. There was another panda that came only a few months ago. He always felt uneasy and used to climb trees to get away, but now he is much calmer.
After we finished strolling around the whole center once, we went back. But when we got there, Eric and Owen were gone. Teacher He told us that they went to find us. However, once they got back, because we had nothing to do, our whole group including Haobo, Eric, and Owen strolled around the center again. However, some of the pandas went back to their homes already.
The teacher that was to pick us up came, so we rode the car back to the hotel.
Interview Day
Today is the seventh day, and it’s also the day when we need to check the website. In the morning, right when we arrived at the Panda Center, we turned in our website to the panda center workers. Later, we helped the workers translate and review some documents. When Haobo and I were translating, Eric was preparing some questions for the interview because later in the afternoon, we scheduled an interview with a panda worker, Mr. Zhou, who taught us how to take care of pandas. At lunchtime, we set the interview time with him. Because everyone had something to do, the time passed very quickly. The four of us went to listen to Mr. Zhou’s stories.
1.Where did you grow up?
Dujiangyan
2.What inspired you to work at the panda reserve?
I loved animals when I was just a child, so I choose Animal Science as my major.
3.When did you start working with pandas?
4.What is your fondest memory working with pandas?
I was most impressed by a panda named Qiang Qiang, who was rescued from the wild. Before that, he had lost one of his hind legs in the wild, but luckily, he recovered. Then, when we rescued him, his other leg was also broken and bleeding. With our care, he had a recovery, but still couldn’t fully move, so his breeder had to induce him with food in order to get him to crawl. His courage to face his adversity inspired us.
5.What is your favorite aspect of working with pandas?
I like them all, and I like most of all their courage to fight with nature.
6.What do you like the most about pandas?
The courage and strength of the pandas to face nature.
7.About how long do you interact with pandas per day?
We spend most of our time with the giant pandas, about 8 hours a day, sometimes we work overtime.
8.Which panda is your favorite?
Qiang Qiang, because of his courage to face his adversity.
9.Do you feel like the current efforts to help pandas have made a significant impact on the pandas? What do you think we could do more to help them?
Of course, they were just a few in the 90’s. But later, their number gradually increased. Since 2005, their number increased a lot. Numbers matter a lot for a species. We must guarantee there are enough pandas to prevent inbreeding, because it will cause illness and disease, which leads to extinction.
10.Do pandas do anything other than eating, sleeping, or pooping?
Give birth, but wild pandas have a lot more stuff to do, like when wolves pass by, they have to stand still to observe their surroundings. Generally, they stay in the holes of trees to prevent wind or rain. Sometimes they will sleep on their own feces to keep warm.
11.Do pandas like to interact with other pandas?
They don’t, pandas have territorial awareness. They barely come into contact with other pandas except their babies and their significant other.
12.How fast can pandas move? Do they ever move quickly?
We have never recorded that, but if they get scared, they will run away. However, normally, they will climb trees instead of running away. Their maximum running speed might be slower than that of a human’s.
13.How does the presence of tourists affect pandas? Do they get scared or are they unaffected?
It will have a small impact on them, but not so much that it would hurt them.
14.Does the panda reserve release pandas back into the wild? They get pampered a lot here, how do they fare in the wild?
For a few years, we have started our research on taking them back to the wild, but we have not finished.
15.How intelligent are pandas compared with other animals?
They have a lot of intelligence, as the species has evolved for over 3 million years.
16.Are pandas aggressive? How dangerous is it to be close to an unfamiliar panda?
Sometimes they get aggressive, same as people. Definitely dangerous. In the past, there were pandas who had escaped. Workers have to go to the mountains to find them, then using food to make them forget that they escaped and put them back. If they can’t get them back in the cages, they have to give them anesthetics.
17.What are pandas’ favorite foods? Do they like to eat meat?
Pandas are vegetarians, generally, they won’t eat meat. However when they have nothing to eat in the winter, they would have to eat dead wild animals.
18.Why doesn’t panda poop smell bad?
Because they are vegetarians, their feces contain cellulose.
19.Do pandas have any predators?
They do not have natural predators, however, they compete for mates.
Growing up in America, I believed that pandas had it all. Food, sleep, free space, popularity. Pandas had the ultimate lifestyle, one befitting that of a king’s. Yet, after coming to the DuJiangYan Panda Reserve, I learned that this is not the case for all pandas. Through an interview with Mr. Zhou, I learned that wild pandas experience great challenges in the wild, yet they have the tenacity to persevere through all of them. This aspect of pandas has allowed them to survive for tens of thousands of years and is the source of a strong bond pandas and humans.
While Mr. Zhou appreciates the cuteness of pandas, it is not the main reason that he loves them. He loves their tenacity, and his favorite panda in DuJiangYan, Chiang Chiang,
embodies that ideal. Chiang Chiang was found in the wild with one leg amputated and one leg covered in blood. He was in tremendous pain and could not walk. Yet, he persevered. After being rescued, he slowly began to learn how to overcome his crippling challenge. He underwent months and months of rehab in order to learn how to move by dragging himself with his arms. This, of course, was not new to Chiang Chiang. He had to do exactly the same thing when he lost his first leg. But this was in the wild, not in the comfort of a loving panda reserve. He was vulnerable to hunters and other pandas for months, but he survived. In the wild, pandas have no free time. While pandas in reserves are pampered with bamboo for four seasons, wild pandas must scavenge for frozen meat in the winter. For the crippled Chiang Chiang, his tenacity must have been truly strong.
In the end, pandas are not the princes of luxury I imagined them to be. They have real problems, and their tenacity that carries them forward is an attribute that I, like Mr. Zhou, have grown to love. — Eric Yu
Eating Stick Hot Pot
On the morning of the eighth day, we stayed at the hotel to talk about what we would teach at the high school. I feel like our group is like a brick, wherever they need us, we would go. Because all the members of the teaching group had to go to the elementary school farewell party, they needed some people (like us) to fill in for the high school. Because all the members of our group except the captain seem a little introverted, I thought that the arrangement was just a joke. They said that we need to teach a total of 3 periods, each consisting of 50 minutes of class and 10 minutes of break. In the end, we decided to make the first period self-introductions, the second period playing games, and the third period group activities.
When we reached Dujiangyan high school, we thought that the school seemed very strange because it was very big and it was a dorm school. In America, the public schools all have students go back home after school. Very quickly, we arrived at the classroom. After the students arrived, we started to do what we planned—self-introductions. This took up almost the whole first period, with the rest of the class time talking about football. The main speaker was the team leader, while Haobo and I sat around doing nothing, and Owen wrote things on the board. The children really loved to play games, so for the second and third periods, we could finally do something and play with the children. At the last 10 minutes, Haobo and I led a group to talk about interesting things. After class, Eric and Haobo seemed popular among the students, as they rushed to get a picture with them. After facing the reluctant crowd, we said that we might be able to come tomorrow, but most of the time, “maybe” means “no”.
Not long after we arrived back at the hotel, I heard that we would eat hot pot with sticks. The whole group then went to the nearest hot pot with sticks store. Because we sat with Teacher Ma and Teacher He, we ate a wide arrangement of foods. It was happy. After I finished eating, I walked around a little with Haobo and bought a bowl of bean curd. After, we went back to the hotel. After taking a bath, Haobo and I went downstairs to translate more documents. Then I found out that I got a lot of new mosquito bites. Besides mosquitoes, today was a happy day!
Haobo's Journal
On the ninth day, I woke up pretty early, tried to keep sleeping, and finally had to wake up to leave for the Panda Center. We had a pretty uneventful morning when we arrived. There was nothing to add to the website because the teaching group did not give us any memoirs or daily activities. They are the laziest group of people I have ever seen. We ate, we did nothing some more, and finally, we scheduled another meeting with Mr. Zhou to read what we wrote of the questions he asked.
When we went to talk with Mr. Zhou, he took a pretty long time to read what we gave him. And with what we gave him, he had a whole lot of questions and concerns about what we wrote. Because we were only high school students and only one of us knew how to write, our Chinese writing skill was horrifying to look at, and the English was also not perfect. He spoke to us for an hour about how what we need to change for the questions and answers to make more sense. It was a long, long hour. While Eric and Owen talked about League of Legends, Haobo played around with his fan and walked around, while Yuxin tried to listen to the teacher.
We went back to the hotel by bus again. The teaching group did not come back yet. We went out to buy meat. The four of us including Teacher He went out and bought beef, pig tail, duck, and some mangos. We walked back to the hotel later. We wanted to play mahjong, but there was a blackout, so we went out to buy more mangos. However, the cart that sold the mangos left, so we continued to do nothing. Later, the teaching group came back, but there was still no electricity. We went out again with another volunteer named Alan to buy a fan. After he bought it, he also bought a lot of junk food. Even when we came back, we still had no electricity. We also planned to finish a lot of the translations today, as people should have made their memoirs by now. However, the teaching group had left their USB at the high school and could not give it to us. Because of this, we planned to wait until midnight for them to make a duplicate memoir. Even then, they still didn’t give it to us, so basically, we stayed till 12 am to wait for them and they didn’t do anything. How nice.
Haobo's Journal Second Edition
On the tenth day, we did nothing like usual. We left by car and arrived just like every other day. We did basically nothing for the rest of the day because there was still nothing to translate and everything else was finished. When it was 5:00 pm, we went back to the hotel.
The teaching group had already arrived at the hotel. We ate some more food and then tried to blackmail the teaching group. We told them that if they did not pay 5 US dollars, then they would not be included in the website. However, still none of them paid the money, so we just left the Chinese translations for them blank. We decided to translate nothing, so we just did nothing again for the rest of the day. Then our teacher left us so we had to give him gifts. Eric gave a cup, Owen gave hot chocolate powder, Haobo gave chocolate, and Yuxin gave a fan with money in it. It was a boring day again.
Panda Teachers Part 1
Today’s weather a little humid and humid. The computer group and part of the teaching group went to the Panda base. In the morning, the teaching group went to feed the pandas. The computer group led them because we did this already. Some of the students were afraid of the pandas, so when they fed them, they pulled back. This was dangerous because the panda’s claws were very sharp and if they were in a hurry, they would try to grab the food and might injure someone. Then all of us went to the cafeteria. It was interesting that the computer group ran to the cafeteria to avoid getting in a long line. The teaching group went with the staff so they were lagging behind. They had to wait in a long line while we had already gotten our food, haha.
We went back to the office. Eric put the English memoirs on the website, while Haobo and Owen had nothing to do. Yuxin took an afternoon nap. Afterwards, we went to find Teacher Zhou to check what we wrote. After that, we went back to the office. Eric was correcting the English essay. We just played our games afterwards. When it was about 5:00 pm, the teaching group and Eric went back on bus, while the computer group left on a teacher’s car to go back to the hotel.
Panda Teachers Part 2
Today is the final day of working on the website! We have come very far since the first day. Although there were many days where there was not much to do, it was certainly because we worked so hard the first few days. The website has really grown, and today we spent the final hours of work putting in each volunteer’s photos in their personal memoir. At the same time, we finalized a lot of the small issues that Mr. Jin told us to resolve. Now, our website is robust, functional, and beautiful. I am very proud of our team and our work, and for me the Chinaway 2014 Program has been extremely rewarding. I know that all of my teammates think the same way.
Meanwhile, the other half of the teaching students today came to explore the DuJiangYan Panda Reserve. They were certainly excited, and made a lot of noise as they came in. Hopefully they didn’t scare off the pandas! Since they arrived on time today, they were able to participate in all the volunteer activities like cleaning the panda pens, feeding the pandas, and making panda bread. It was all very fun to watch, because we had already done everything they were doing! They left very happily and definitely loved pandas more now than before.
我妈妈刷帖子的时候发现了这个ChinaWay志愿者的活动，她说我去参加吧，因为这是一个很好的机会接触团体生活，而且这个活动对考大学的也有一定程度的帮助。所以在刚放完暑假，我就跟着我妈给我的行程，一个人坐上了去中国的航班。
我到了下午三点多才到达成都。因为飞机晚点了，据说到了成都中方的志愿者会在机场接机，果然，刚出机场出口，我就看到ChinaWay的志愿者姐姐在出站口举着牌子来接我，觉得真好啊，就不用打电话什么的了。她和我聊了聊，据说今天到达成都的成员很多。很快那个姐姐就让司机带着我和几个一起来的同学去和大家集合了。四点这样，我们到了集合的房间，中国志愿者发给我们了一件橙色的衣服含着活动标志和一个铭牌，样子和一般的志愿者服装差不多，倒是颜色很显眼。我发现同学们基本上都会说中文和英文。我英文不是很流利，这样真是太好了！接着我们做了一个很短的自我介绍，大概介绍了下自己的名字和年纪和哪里来的。然后就玩了些姓名介绍的游戏，输了的就做俯卧撑，话说英文名真是好难记，我拼命记也记不全那二十多个志愿者的名字。挺害怕会输的。不过倒是记下了很多人的名字，之后就是玩牌和自由活动，中途吃了个饭，有点无聊。看着他们在一起玩，我就开始昏昏欲睡了，中途可能新到了些成员，我没注意到。不过我问我们组的导师，他说他们有些是和爷爷或者妈妈等家长来的，有的是自己来的。但是最大的一批是从旧金山一趟飞机来的，总共可能有七八个人。因为他们的飞机晚点了，等他们到了天已经黑了，我们匆匆忙忙的分了四个组，这四个组都是属于教学组的，会去当支教。当然，我们电脑软件编辑组的不在里面。接着导师叫我们各个组的都去各自了解一下组员，我就跑去找我们电脑组的成员了。加上我和导师，这个组总共有5个人，导师胖胖的，拿着把折扇坐在凳子上摇扇子，说话很幽默。还有一个组员Owen不太喜欢说话，有的时候像自闭症一样，萌萌的。剩下两个组员有一个叫Haobo，喜欢摇头；还有一个叫Eric，也就是我们的组长。导师给每个人都取了个外号，其中印象深刻的就是Haobo，因为他老是摇头说不懂，于是导师就叫他”不懂“。我挺期待和这个组在一起工作的。
接着可能过了一个小时，我们把行李从四楼抗下去到巴士上之后我们坐上了巴士。我把衣服和铭牌放到头顶的行李架上就开始睡觉，车开了大概有一个多小时，我们就到了我们的旅馆——三源居。等把行李从车上拿下来，我们就分了房间，我本来以为旅馆里会有浴巾和香皂之类的，没想到没有，于是我冲了个澡就和我的新室友——中国志愿者Crystal睡下了。
我有一个不好的开端，在我去成都参加Chinaway活动的时候。
它开始在我离开家去成都的那天。正如你所看到的，我14岁，从Massachusetts来。我的父母认为这是一个适当的年龄去培养我的独立性，所以我需要一个人飞行跨越半个地球。当然，我很兴奋，因为我现在拥有了属于我自己的空间。但我也紧张所有在途中可能出现的问题。像我会不会忘记一些重要的东西，比如我的护照吗？我会不会做错什么在海关和边境管制的时候，并且受到阻碍？不过，我错过了最昭然若揭的“如果”，那是所有的旅客都会经常担心的问题：航班延误。
我的第一场飞机是从波士顿飞往旧金山，它有两个小时延迟，但是，这件事是在飞机上告诉我们的，所以我们被扣在了登机口无法下机以及转航班。我拼命地希望我能够赶上旧金山到成都的转机航班，像一位来自Chinaway的老师以及许多其他的学生一样，一起在那个航班上抵达成都。但是如果飞机不晚点的话，我也只有两个小时的临时滞留时间，而当飞机终于起飞了，我却感觉自己已经准备冲刺到我的第二个航班了。
我的担心是无用的，因为我要转机的飞机在我涉足旧金山机场的时候就已经起飞。在我的父母（电话）和航空公司的客户服务柜台的帮助下，我好不容易才抢到了旧金山到北京航班的最后剩下的座位。因此我不得不改用中国国际航空公司的飞机。
当飞机已经起飞了之后，我想起了另一个问题，就是我的行李。自从我换航空公司之后，我行李的目的地和时间也需要进行切换。飞机降落在成都的时候，我试图设法重新安排行李到达。经过爸爸的帮助（再次在手机上），最后我的行李终于在三天后到达。
最终，我是最后一个人到达成都的。我在活动开始的那天早上3：00才抵达旅馆。没有我的行李袋和我在一起我感觉很奇怪。我不得不出去买生活必需品，如果不这样的话我没有办法生活。在与我的爸爸和Chinaway的一位老师帮助之下，我拿到了行李。并且它被送达到我们住的旅馆。因为这个在此行之初的小小冒险，这次活动已经变得令我难以忘怀。 - Sophie Zhang
小孩和大熊猫
第二天，我五点多就醒了，睡不着，上了个厕所就躺在床上用手机看小说，一直到七点半左右，室友定的闹铃响了。之后就洗洗漱漱赶着8点钟的早餐。因为我室友是中方的志愿者，她得赶着早餐开始去帮助我们这些国外的小朋友。快到8点，我就和室友妹子Crystal下楼吃早饭了。
我在成都的第一餐是在室内，吃的是稀饭和小菜，稀饭的主要组成物小米大米和水，小菜有三叠，一叠是炒花生，一叠是炒空心菜梗，还有一叠是辣豆腐丝。我和室友到时才五六个人在那里，有的人到最后也没来，估计因为昨天等晚点的飞机等的太晚了。我觉得还行，可以入口。但是那些生长在国外没怎么吃过中国菜的没有吃太多，估计她们觉得不太合胃口。Cindy老师说如果想吃什么可以去和那些旅店的工作人员去说，他们会去做。
吃完早餐，我们电脑组的和教师组的一起去了一个活动，但是不是所有人都去了，因为有些人睡的晚、倒时差很累，不想去。我们去到了七一青城山学校，刚开始我还以为不用去吃了一惊。因为人不够，我们重新分了4个暂时的组去教四个班。因为没有提前通知我们要交小朋友英语，那些教学材料和小孩子杀了大家个措手不及，大家教的都有些狼狈。
在活动的第二天，我们直接就进入了教学。我们很多人都从来没有经历过这样的事——忙里忙外地说着一个我们不熟悉的语言，试图和新的队友合作，还有安排27个吵闹的四五年级学生。这绝对不是一件容易的事，但是这是一个巨大的学习过程！我已经注意到了有关中国学生几件事情;虽然他们的热情，但是第一，他们似乎有些野蛮以及喜欢随性而为。实际上他们对学习有个非常热情的态度。我们的问题是需要控制他们。因为他们太想参与，每一次我们问一个问题时，便会收到大声回应“我！我！我！”学生们特别渴望回答，所以有时候他们会把答案脱口而出，而忘记举手。在比赛期间，他们的声音大声的几乎令人无法忍受。当然，这些都不是问题，至少学生愿意学习，而不是精神萎靡。我个人觉得，发现这个变化是很令人愉快，我很长时间没有遇到过一个这样的教学环境了，还有我非常喜欢这个环境。- 安妮 郑
下课的时间，我和小朋友聊了聊，他们的班级是个暑假兴趣补习班或者暑假补习班。而我们组带的班级基本上是四五年级的小朋友。他们都很可爱，没有特别调皮捣蛋的学生。我们急匆匆的讨论了会应该怎么教小朋友们，按照教材我们读了一些英文，感觉还可以，小朋友都很听话，还让他们选了自己的英文名。之后，我们实在想不出应该怎么教小朋友了，于是就带着小朋友去户外玩了些游戏。可是小朋友有些不理解游戏规则，所以我们换成了老鹰抓小鸡。小朋友玩的很开心，但是感觉教师们有些累了，站了太久我也有些累了，其实觉得教小朋友挺无聊，还要让她们听自己的话，说实话我不太喜欢。到了12点多，大家就乘着大巴回到了我们旅店。下车的时候，我在门口小卖部买了包洗衣粉，我原以为会有客房服务洗衣服的，没想到没有，有点烦。吃完午饭，那些教学组的继续乘巴士到七一青城山学校进行教学，而电脑组的，包括我，就去到了都江堰熊猫基地，我们在一个会议室坐了一会，等工作人员弄好了，我们组就去到了那里的办公室，针对怎么做这个熊猫·公益的网站还有任务分配进行讨论。最终得出结论，网页是走清爽极简风，而任务分配大概是我负责提供照片视频等素材，中翻英，还有写这个东西；Owen和Eric负责编写网页；不懂也就是Haobo负责两边跑，帮我把中文翻译成英文，还有在Eric他们那里打下手。时间过的很快，坐下来不一会就下午5点了，基地的工作人员下班，所以我们也离开了。
回到了旅馆，发现教学组的已经回来了。据说下午的小朋友不是很好教，因为新鲜感已经过去了，就开始觉得无聊，有一个组就把小朋友带到了室外进行教学，效果好像还不错。我趁着还没吃晚饭就去洗了衣服，之后晚饭，因为室内有点小，他们就把桌子移到中间的院子吃。8点这样，中方的志愿者有一个会议。八点半左右，就是我们这些美方志愿者的谈话，Cindy老师向我们介绍了这个活动，这个会议应该是昨天就开了的，但是因为有人来晚了，所以就没开。中方志愿者和美方志愿者都自我介绍了次，其实我觉得中方志愿者就像保姆一样，每个人负责一件事，比如说我室友Crystal就负责美方的宿舍安排的问题。因为Cindy老师比较忙，有什么事就可以找中方志愿者，他们会帮助我们。
之后我的室友就要换宿舍了，因为我住这个三源居旅店比较好，给了美方志愿者住。刚好有一个妹子昨天来迟了，因为飞机晚点，没赶上飞机半夜三点多才到。就没有赶上分配三源居的房间，我这里刚好有个位置可以给她住进来，于是我的室友就变成了Sophie。
然后洗洗睡了。
照顾大熊猫
第三天到成都，我依旧起的很早，到了中国之后都是五六点就醒，室友还在睡，我就看了会小说，新室友Sophie的性格很软，很客气。六点半这样室友就起了，接着我们刷牙洗脸。忘了说，我们的旅店是呈回字形，从门口看，左边是个不锈钢门，没有房子。门口第一层是室内吃饭的地方，还有收银台和厨房，二三楼是房间。于是有人出来一眼就能看到。
洗漱完时间还早，我就和室友Sophie商量把门开开了，因为早上的空气清新一点。我和室友在走廊聊天的时候，有一个参加我们这个活动的妹子跑出来了。她说她的室友还在睡，她想写作业，但是不想吵到她，所以就出来了。8点到了，我们三个人就一起下去吃饭，我们去的时候还早，今天我们电脑要提前体验照顾大熊猫。
当我们到达了都江堰熊猫基地，工作人员给了我们特殊的工作服。大约9点半，工作人员带领我们走到了熊猫泰山和林冰的宿舍旁，宿舍里有两个连起来的笼子，但是只有一个有小门通往院子。成员们到时，项工程师已经在宿舍里工作了，据他说每五头熊猫有三个饲养员去照顾。
他领着成员用扫把和簸箕扫起熊猫的粪便和剩余的竹叶，然后用水冲了一次，再用扫把刷墙，之后又用水冲了一次。我觉得这个偶尔做一次还觉得新鲜，要是天天做我一定受不了。我挺喜欢的就是拍竹子，但是我没去试，因为我知道我砸不开。我问了工作人员，她说为了方便熊猫进食，粗的竹子都会提前拍裂开，成员们就举着竹子的一段用力往地上砸，很好玩。两只熊猫都很可爱，很听话。萌萌的吃东西特别可爱！但是，我看到熊猫泰山一口把玻璃杯口粗的竹子咬断，我觉得我受到了惊吓。
工作人员会叫离熊猫远点，找熊猫牙齿的力度要下去估计人就能成残废。据说工作人员每只大熊猫每天大约能吃掉15公斤的竹子，那些吃剩的竹子就被清扫出来，每天都会有专门的车来收掉，熊猫的粪便也是一样的。等成员们清扫完了熊猫宿舍，时间已经是10点10分了。我们在办公室工作了半小时之后，就去和工作人员一起去喂熊猫，我们是两人一组，原因是太多人一起怕会吓到熊猫。工作人员拿出了一盘黄色的像面包一样的东西，里面的成分主要是是玉米面，面还有胡萝卜等。我们组们给予了一只熊猫两到三大片面包状食物，有一只熊猫的腿截肢了，因为受了伤，看着挺伤感的。不一会，二组的成员就来找我们了，因为他们只有两只熊猫。喂完熊猫，成员们就去了中心的食堂，吃了餐饭。味道还不错！回到办公室还早，我们就先做了些工作。到了2点30分，大家就去另一个办公室找上午的带领我们的工作人员，由她带领我们去给熊猫做东西吃，就是上午喂熊猫吃的面包状食物。
到了做食物的地方，我们要换上蓝色的不透气的那种消毒衣，穿在身上有些热。面粉和水还在搅拌，我们五个人包括老师就在室内走了走。没多久，项工程师就拿起纱布以及盘子，指导我们把纱布摊到装食物盘子里，待到面好，项工程师就把面装入盆里，倒在干净的工作桌上。工作人员管这个面包状食物叫窝窝头，我觉得成分挺像的。面的手感就和橡皮泥一样，只不过有些粗糙，我们把面和拢，弄紧。做成一个扁的圆柱体。我觉得挺难的，到做完了那些面我也没掌握技巧。我问了和我一起做窝窝头的工作人员，她们三四个人一次能做三天熊猫吃的窝窝头，自己做的话很快，二十分钟就能把窝窝头捏成型。
清扫桌面的时候倒是挺简单，拿抹布擦擦，把碎渣和黏在上面的面团擦掉就行，但是因为那个房间的下水管道是在一个水平比较高的地方，我们得把工作人员为了清洗地板撒到地上的水扫到下水管道那，等水流走。扫完水之后我们就把房间拖干净。拖地是个体力活，配合上消毒衣，干完之后我就出汗了。做完了那些我们又回到了办公室，那时已经快下午5点了，我们做了一会编辑网页的工作，4点40多分那个接我们的老师就已经来了，于是我们就坐车回到了旅馆。在回旅馆的路上我们经过一家板鸭店，导师就去买板鸭给我们加餐去了，Eric看起来好像有些受宠若惊的感觉，之后导师约着Eric晚上去他们寝室看球。
我们电脑组回来的时候教学组的不在，据说是去逛古城、吃东西去了。真是爽啊，我也想去，就是走路太远了。把我们东西放到房间之后，我们就下楼吃板鸭去了。中途Cindy老师和我们导师聊了聊，说有一个教学组的人，名字叫Elizabeth，被猫咬了。因为有只小奶猫跑到教室，小朋友和志愿者都挺喜欢猫的，可能太多人猫受到惊吓就躲起来了，Elizabeth帮小朋友去把猫抓出来，因为猫小，没想到它居然会伤人，最后Elizabeth被打了四针的狂犬疫苗。
吃完饭没多久，教学组的就回来了，整顿了一下，我去找blog小组的组长叫他给我些照片什么的，我好筛选，放到网页上。
之后我和室友Sophie商量去逛会夜市，于是我们去了另一个旅馆和中国志愿者汇报行程，顺便邀请Crystal一起去，但是当我们到达他们的宿舍时，他们正赶着去8点30的每日会议，我才知道，为了更好的教小朋友，每天教学组的组长和中国志愿者都会有会议。因为他们开会我和室友Sophie就呆在寝室里。没过多久，Sophie就出去了，我也不知道她去干什么了。等了会实在是困了，我就刷牙洗脸掩上门，睡觉去了。
每分钟都在工作
第四天，8点多我们电脑组的集合，一起去了大熊猫的养殖基地。因为没有熊猫志愿者的工作，我们就呆在了办公室编辑网页，办公室的环境很好，就是水被喝完了。本来我们打算先把前几天的内容编辑好之后，就去采访那些照顾大熊猫工作人员的，可惜最后到了下午5点我们也没弄好，所以采访计划就占时搁浅了。
中午十二点的时候我们去食堂吃了餐饭，一人30元。因为是不对外开放的员工餐，所以比较贵，吃完饭之后我和Haobo在园子里四处逛了逛。因为是中午，比较热，大熊猫一般都不会出来。但是我们的运气不错，没走多远就看到了一只叫知春的熊猫，据说的日本领养的。但是我们的来到可能打扰到它了，没多久，它就踱着步子，慢吞吞的走回去他的小房间了。
下午时，我和Haobo翻译了一些文案，Owen和Eric把我们写的东西放上去，之后5点我们就乘着巴士回到旅馆了。
工作和打麻将
工作的第五天！截至目前，我们已经完成了网站的很大一部分。网页差不多已经完整了，还有基本结构的文章也是。当我们获得新的内容，我们将继续更新文章页面。我们唯一需要做的的事情就是把把照片和说明放到页面上。
因为网页骨架几乎是完整的，所以我们今天花了很多时间在敲定网页上的设计，和主页的标识上。我们尝试把东西放在页面的顶部，从标志到大标题到小标题到描述。终于，我们决定了怎么摆放导航栏下的描述——把标志描述放在右边。与此同时，我们找到了一个方式从主页查看所有活动期刊。要做到这一点，我们添加了一个一个功能——点击左，右箭头可以淡出第一组文章和渐变显示出下一个组。要实现这个功能，我们不得不做大量的工作，以找出剪头如何放置。最后，Haobo在微软图画上设计的箭头。剪头看起来很不错，Owen和Eric修改了设计，以适应我们网站的需求。
在此期间，我们更新了网站上的文章。相比以前，我们没有那么多的工作去做，所以有很多剩下的时间。在这些空闲的时间，我们通过玩牌和麻将学到了很多地道的中国文化。我从不知道我么的何老师的麻将是那么好！在他的指导下，我觉得我也很厉害了。我玩了一会，发现有几百种几千种方式去赢钱。当然，我们没有真的用钱玩。
我们今天没有去熊猫中心，我们正在工作的网页可以直接在旅馆里修改，这既轻松又有趣。何老师甚至带我们出去吃一些地道的四川食物，比如说麻婆豆腐和担担面。那真好！我希望我们能够才出去吃一次。
今天是非常重要的最后一天，因为明天我们就要把网页交上去审核。
早上我们坐车到达了熊猫基地，Eric把最后的文字放上去。因为我在做“熊猫公益圈”的图片，所以他帮我把昨天的事情用英文写了下来，之后当我把“熊猫公益圈”的地图做完，就去做翻译的工作，所以昨天的那篇文章不是我写的。当我翻译所有需要翻译的文章后。Eric他们也把最后的网页排版和新添加的页面弄好了。于是我在无聊的走来走去。有个在办公室工作的姐姐看到了，主动和我们说带我们出去转转。我挺惊讶的，没想到居然有工作人员会主动邀请我们。我答应了她，顺便叫上了Haobo，但是Owen和Eric好像累了，他们说不想去。
在路上，我们看到了三只腿的大熊猫戴丽，它是在野外发现的，当时已经受伤了，所以截肢了，管理员说他叫这个名字是简写“期待站立”。他不经常离他的小房子太远，所以他的院子长满了草。我们还再次看到了林冰，它是从泰国回来的熊猫。看到它时他正在吃着竹叶，带我们来的姐姐叫了两三次他的名字他都没理我们。姐姐说大熊猫在吃东西和睡觉的时候不会理人。之后我们还看到刚从云南野生动物园回来的“美茜”，还有被工作人员们称为“老大哥”的一只脾气暴躁的熊猫，据说姐姐说，有一次饲养员喂食喂的太慢了，他就生气了。还有一只熊猫前几个月刚来到这个保护基地，缺乏安全感，以前特别喜欢爬到树上，不过现在好很多了。
当我们把所有园区逛了一遍，我们就回去了。但是没有看到Eric和Owen，何老师说他们去找我们了。不过，等到他们回来，我们因为没事干，整个组包括我、Haobo、Eric和Owen又转了一圈园区。不过有些大熊猫已经回去他们的小房子里了。
等接我们的老师来了，我们就乘车回到旅馆了。
今天，是第七天，也就是网页审核的这一天。早上，刚到熊猫基地，我们就把我们做的网站提交给了熊猫中心的网站管理者。之后，我们就帮助了那里的工作人员翻译和校队一些文本。当我和Haobo在翻译的时候，Eric就在准备采访的问题，因为今天下午，我们小组打算去采访熊猫中心的工作人员——周先生，因为上次是他带领我们去学习如何照顾大熊猫。在午餐的时候，我们向周先生约好了下午的采访时间。因为大家都有事情要做，时间过的很快，一下子就到了下午约定好的时间。我们四个人就跑过去听周先生讲他的“故事”：
1.你在哪里长大的？
2.为什么你选择在熊猫基地工作？
我从小就喜欢所有的动物，所以长大报考了了动物科学系。
3.你是什么时候开始和一起熊猫工作的？
4.你在熊猫基地多年，给你留下印象最深的是什么？
印象最深的是一只叫强强的熊猫，它是野外救护回来的。很久以前它在野外就已经失去了一条后腿。但是伤口已经愈合了。当救护的时候，它刚失去了另一条后腿，所以留了很多血，带回去经过精心照料之后，就恢复了，但是还不能移动。因为失去了两只脚，所以饲养员用食物进行引诱，强强渐渐学会了用它的前肢爬行和自己吃食物。那种面对大自然的勇气给人带来了震撼。
5.你最喜欢大熊猫的什么？
都喜欢，最喜欢熊猫面对大自然的勇气。
6.每天你跟熊猫一起多长时间？
工作大概是8小时，那就是8小时。有的时候还要加班，那就更长了。
7.你最喜欢哪一个熊猫？
强强，因为它面对大自然的勇气。
8.这些年，在保护大熊猫的过程中里，你们做出了很多努力，这对大熊猫有哪些深远的影响？
当然了，90年代的时候大熊猫的数量还很少。经过我们的努力之后大熊猫的数量就慢慢的增加了。从2005年及以后大熊猫的数量有巨大的增幅，因为物种的数量对它们来说很重要。首先它们要达到一定的数量，才能保证后代的质量。如果物种的数量不够，那么近亲繁殖之后，生出来的后代有很大的几率就会有疾病，物种就会渐渐的灭绝。
9.大熊猫除了吃喝拉撒睡还会做什么？
人工圈养的大熊猫会繁殖，但是野外的大熊猫有很多事情要做，当狼走过的时候它就要留在原地观察周围环境。一般他们都住在树洞里，或避风避雨的地方。有的时候为了取暖他们会睡在自己的排泄物上。
10.大熊猫是群居动物吗？
不是，大熊猫有领地意识，除了在发情期，雄性会和雌性会在一起，其他时候雄性熊猫都是自己独居的。不过雌性熊猫会和她未成年的后代在一起。
11.大熊猫可以跑得多快？什么时候会跑的快？
一小时32公里，不过他们一般都会爬到树上，不会跑。
12.当游客来时会影响到大熊猫的作息吗？他们会害怕吗？还是没有影响？
会有一定影响，但是影响不大，给游客参观的熊猫都是健康的。
13.大熊猫基地放生大熊猫吗？大熊猫在良好的环境中生存之后还能适应野外的环境吗？
几年前就开始研究大熊猫的野外放归了。
14.大熊猫跟别的动物比有多聪明呢？
这个不好说，有的人说现在因为熊猫的繁殖数量少的问题，所以他的的智力还停留在远古时代。而有人说，熊猫的脑容量比较小，所以不是很聪明。这个没有确切的答案。
15.熊猫暴躁吗？当你靠近一个不熟悉的熊猫有多危险？
熊猫有的时也会暴躁。肯定危险。
16.大熊猫最喜欢吃什么？他们喜欢吃肉吗？
熊猫是素食主义，一般情况下不会吃肉。
17.为什么大熊猫的大便没有不好的味道？
熊猫是素食主义，粪便的主要成分是纤维素。
18.大熊猫有天敌吗？
熊猫没有天敌，但是在发情期熊猫会攻击其它的熊猫。
19.熊猫更喜欢吃窝窝头还是更喜欢吃竹子？
野生熊猫喜欢吃竹笋，因为他们拿不到别的东西。但是人工圈养的熊猫喜欢吃精饲料（窝窝头）
“生长在美国，我一直相信熊猫拥有了一切。食物，睡眠，自由空间，和受欢迎的生活。大熊猫拥有符合人们对终极生活方式的的定义——像一个国王一样。然而，来到都江堰大熊猫保护区后，我才知道，并不是所有的大熊猫都生活在一个这样的环境中。通过与周先生的采访中，我了解到，野生大熊猫在野外面临着巨大的挑战，但是他们有一种韧性去坚持下去。大熊猫的这种性格使他们能够生存的数万年，是一个人类与熊猫的强大关联。
周先生欣赏大熊猫的可爱，但这是不是他爱熊猫们的主要原因。他热爱它们的坚韧，他最喜欢的熊猫在都江堰。强强，它代表了它的生活态度。强强被发现在野外，发现时，它的一条腿已经是断肢了，另外一条腿全部是血。他在承受巨大的痛苦，因为不能走路。然而，他坚持了下来。获救后，他慢慢的开始学会如何克服这个巨大的挑战。经历几个月康复治疗，他为了学习如何通过拖动自己与他的手臂进行移动。这，当然对蒋蒋来说不是新东西了。当他失去了他的第一只腿的时候，他不得不做同样的事情。但是，那是在野外，而不是在一个舒适且充满爱的熊猫保护区。那几个月，他很容易被猎人和其他大熊猫了攻击，但他活了下来。在野外，大熊猫没有空闲时间。当大熊猫在养尊处优的环境中四季都有竹子，而在 野生大熊猫必须在冬季吃腐肉。对于残缺的强强，他坚韧的品质一定是真正强大的。
最后，熊猫不是奢侈的王子。他们要面对真正的问题，他们的坚韧品质是他们的特点，像我和周先生，已经喜欢上了。” — 余瑞成
第八天的上午我们一直留在旅馆里。讨论关于下午去高中教学的事。我一直觉得我们组就是块砖，哪里需要就把我们往哪里搬。因为教学组的所有成员都要去参加小学的离别聚会，所以高中需要一些人（比如我们）来讲课。但是组里成员性格除了组长都挺内向的，所以我觉得这个安排简直在开玩笑。据说我们总共需要教三节课，每节课50分钟，之后有10分钟的下课时间。最终我们决定第一节课做自我介绍，第二节课玩游戏，第三节课每人带一个小组活动。
当到达都江堰中学时，我们都觉得这个高中很新奇，因为它很大，并且是寄宿学校。在美国的公立学校都是放学就回家的。很快，我们到达了教室，等大家都来齐了，我们就开始我们的计划——自我介绍。这用掉了几乎一节课，之后第一节课剩下的时间我们就在讲橄榄球的规则。果不出我所料，控场人员一直是组长，酱油人士还是我和Haobo，Owen在黑板上写东西。孩子们似乎很喜欢玩游戏，所以二三节课我们终于可以不酱油，和他们一起玩游戏了。直到最后10分钟，我和Haobo一组，带了一些学生说些有趣的事。下课后，似乎Eric和Haobo很受欢迎，同学们都抢着和他们拍照，之后面对依依不舍的众人，我们许诺下明天说不定还来的承诺，当然一般“说不定”就等于“不”的意思。
刚回到旅馆没多久，我就听到要去吃串串的消息。于是大家就浩浩荡荡的奔去附近的一家串串店。因为我们这桌有马老师和何老师的庇护，吃的东西简直绵绵不断，真是太幸福惹。吃完后我和Haobo出去逛了逛，买了碗豆腐脑，简直太爽。接着我们就打道回府，洗完澡后我和Haobo下楼去翻译东西，回来才发现又被添了好多蚊子包，除了蚊子，今天真是幸福的一天啊！
浩博的日记
第九天，我起的很早，我想继续睡，但是不行，我得去熊猫基地。在今天早上，我们四个无什么都没做，因为教师组没有给我们任何东西加到网站里。他们真的很懒。我们吃了中午饭，还约好了和周老师见面的时间，因为我们要给他我们写的东西。
我们找到了周老师，他花了挺长的时间看我们写的东西。之后，他和我们说了很多问题以及他的想法。因为我们只是高中生而且只有一个人会写中文，所以中文和英文都不是很完美。他告诉我们应该怎么写句子才是通顺的。那是一个很长很长的一小时，Eric和Owen在聊英雄联盟，Haobo拿着他的扇子在附近走来走去，Yuxin试图听老师讲话。
我们回到了我们的旅馆，据说教学组要在中学吃饭，于是我们就去卖肉去了。我们四个人跟着何老师，他买了牛肉，猪尾，鸭子还有一些芒果。我们再次回到了旅馆，我们想玩麻将，但是突然停电了。所以Yuxin和Haobo又去买芒果，但是买芒果的人已经收摊了。所以我们什么都没做。之后，教学组回来了，但是电还是没有恢复。我们组打算再次出去，因为Alan想买扇子，所以他也和我们一起去了。他买了扇子和垃圾食物。当我们再次回去的时候，电还是没来。我们今天晚上打算完成许多文件翻译，因为大家都应该写完了自己的自述。但是，教学组把U盘忘在了他们今天去的学校里，所以我们打算等到晚上12点让他们再给我们。但是，他们还是没有给我们。于是我们就去睡了。
浩博的日记第二期
第十天，我们像往常一样，什么也没做。我们像往常一样下了车。我们今天基本上没做什么因为没有东西可以翻译，而其他需要我们做的的已经完成了。五点钟，我们回到了旅馆。
教师组已经回到了旅馆。我们吃了些东西然后试图勒索那些教师组。我们说他们如果不付钱，他们就不会出现在这个网页上。无论怎样，他们都没有交钱，所以他们的中文页面就是空白的。然后我们的何老师离开了，我们给了他些礼物，像Eric给了个小杯子，Owen给了热巧克力粉，Haobo给了巧克力，Yuxin给了扇子还有一些钱。真是无聊的一天。
熊猫教师第一部分
今天，天气有点闷热。我们电脑组和教学组一起去到了都江堰熊猫基地。早上，教学组的去喂熊猫，我们电脑组的就指导他们，因为我们去过。有些同学挺怕熊猫的，喂食的时候手忍不住往后缩。这很危险，因为熊猫的爪子很尖利，而且它一着急就会抓食物，就怕它误伤到人。接着我们和教学组的一起去食堂吃饭，有趣的是，因为我们组不想排长队打饭，所以我们是跑着过去的，而教学组跟着领队的工作人员所以他们走的很慢，结果他们排起了长队我们已经打完了【哈哈。
接着我们回到了办公室，Eric把大家交上来的英文自述放到网页上了。Haobo和Owen没有事做。而我(Yuxin)睡了一个午觉，醒了之后，我们组一起去找周老师，修改我们的采访。弄完之后，我们又回到了办公室，Eric在修改熊猫基地老师给我们的英文评语的语法。而剩下的我们就玩游戏去了。直到快五点，教学组的和Eric乘公交车。而剩下的我们坐上了金老师的车，回到了旅馆。
熊猫教师第二部分
今天是工作的最后一天！从第一天到现在，我们已经走了很远。因为我们在一开始几天的辛苦工作，所以有些日子我们没有很多工作要做。我们做的网站真的已经成型了，今天我们度过了最后几个小时的工作将在每个志愿者的照片在他们的自述页面。与此同时，我们解决了一些金先生告诉我们，我们需要修改的小问题。现在，我们的网站是有用的，强大的，以及美观的。因为我们的团队和我们的工作，我感到非常自豪。对我(Eric)来说Chinaway2014计划是非常好的。我知道，我的队友们的想法也是和我一样的。
与此同时，另一半的教师组今天也来到了都江堰大熊猫基地。他们很激动，并且发出了很多声音当他们走进来的时候。希望他们不会吓到熊猫！他们今天按时到达了基地，所以他们可以参加说有的活动比如说清理熊猫圈舍，喂熊猫，和做窝窝头。我们知道熊猫们是很可爱的，因为我们已经做过了这些事情！他们非常愉快的离开了，我相信他们绝对比以前更爱爱大熊猫了。