Week 2
Day 7

Steel factory visit today! I was looking forward to this trip as I was always interested in technology kind of things. We took a 2 hour trip to the factory where the air was filled with metal smells. Pictures were not allowed to be taken in the factory so I will have to explain the process. The steel started out from the furnace freshly forged and still bright orange. The steel block exits from the furnace onto a conveyor belt where it was then transported to a compressor like machine where the steel bar was pressed till it became long. The stretched bar next went over to the water spraying machine. The water spraying machine was not that accurate the stretched steel bar went through it and got cooled by the water, only the front of the bar was not cooled. The steel bar then proceeded with thunderous sound; we had to close your ears; and then went into a roller like structure where the cooled steel bars were rolled into rolls that looked like Swiss rolls! Guess how much time did we spent in the factory? Just half an hour! Then we took a disastrous 2 hour trip back again. The driver attempted to take a short-cut, but he was stalled when there was construction being done so he went back from the way he came from and was then trapped in a traffic jam. Most of slept or talked on the way to the shopping district where the longest pedestrian shopping street in China or the world!

When we reach the shopping mall, we went about looking for a place to eat and we ended up eating at Macdonald, where I had 2 burgers and 10 nuggets, well I was hungry! We then shopped around looking for cameras and then we went back to school to continue the lessons.
I hope that we can get more of this kind of educational trip then will enhance our interest in technology.