Wednesday, October 09, 2019

YangZhou Posting (1)

I have been to YangZhou for 10 months in year 2018 for my clinical posting.
I went there at 13th of January if I'm not wrong, it's still winter there.
The week before my classmates and I reach there, locals told us it has already snowed, and we may have missed it.
We were kind of disappointed as we have never seen real snow in our life, living in a tropical country.
But we since we get to see pile of snow every here and there in some corners of the streets, we kind of make up with that.
Until the second week of our stay there, weather reports a possible snowstorm, the locals were skeptical about the accuracy, but we are super excited.
Day during winter is short, it gets dark around 6pm, so we usually got back to hostel early since outside is dark and cold.
So one evening, I was hanging my clothes and my roommate mentioned about having snow tomorrow, I thought it won't got colder than it already been, just added with snow.
The next morning, I was awake from my roommate joyous surprise voice saying "it's snowing!"
After awing and take videos of the snowing scene, we were curious to what happened to the clothes hanging outside.
Poor clothes were frozen, to the point where knocking on them make a solid sound.

The snow was falling for like three days, it's white everywhere, sometimes my eyes would get hurt from looking too long at the snow.
The road is ice froze and very slippery, you can see a lot of people slipping and falling down here and there.
Even patients coming for waist pain, butt pain, ankle sprain have increases due to falling down.

My classmates went for a snowball fight and built their own snowman, I didn't join because it's too cold for me to go outdoor.
Everything about winter is snow and cold, until I learnt that there's plum flower in winter.
It's not pretty and vibrant as other flowers, it's a dull yellow, but the fragrance is pleasant and very strong.
It's like a sunshine in the cold boring winter, founding this fact is still brighten up my day when I think back about it.
That snow falls~~

It's white everywhere, everyone is slipping and falling while walking

Winter plum flower