Last Friday the Foreign Expert's Bureau of Hubei invited foreign teachers of the province to plant trees in the foreign expert's forest in Ezhou, Hubei. Ezhou has a long and rich history. In the Eastern Han dynasty, it was given the name of "E". Its administrative region was changed several times but the name stayed the same until the Three Kingdoms, it was made the capital of the Wu Kingdom by Sun Quan and was named Wuchang. Throughout China's history it has remained an important city politically, economically, and militarily with its strategic position along the middle part of the Yangtze River.(From Wikipedia).
Aurelien couldn't go, he was working. Me too but my classes were transferred to another day. There were 5 buses with foreigners accompanied by the government leaders and the police. It took us 90 minutes to get there. Then somebody from the government held a speech and opened a monument dedicated to the forest.
Each person was supposed to plant 5 trees. I did 4 but I also helped people from my school. We had fun! There I met a woman from Ukraine, she teaches Russian in Wuhan. I enjoyed speaking my language, it doesn't happen often now.
At 11.30 we were taken to one of the best restaurants of the city where we had good lunch!
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