I'm Robert and I live in Shanghai now. Last weekend, I went to a village for a vacation with my friends.
My trip started early in the morning at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station. After two hours on the train to Ningbo and more than two hours on the bus, I arrived at the village: Fengpuao. Fengpuao looks so small on the map, but 2, 000 people live there, next to a lake and forests.
I stayed with my host family (寄宿家庭) for two days. They told me that I could call them Mama and Baba.
They had a daughter called Eva and she showed me around the garden and told me how to grow vegetables. I also went with Baba to a bamboo forest. Then we went to the lake to go fishing. In the evening, my family and friends came over. We had a big dinner together.
The next day I woke up with the song of birdsi. After breakfast, we went to work on the farm all day. It was hard but very interesting. That evening I came back to Shanghai.
The trip was short, but it made me relax from the busy life. And it was a great time together with my host family.