Love & Peace: the Polar Expo!!

This is Jesse. As you see, today is my turn to write about the exhibition we went.

I'm not that good at writing, but I'll try my best to tell you everything that I learned from places we went.

Let's get started now. :)

Yesterday Elly and I went to the Polar Expo with our friend, Anastasia.

At the outside of the Polar Expo, we saw many statues designed by Vicent J. F. Huang who is famous about his environmental friendly artwork.

There were many aluminum robots. Some were making wierd faces and some were having interesting poses. There was a table with five little aluminum robots on it which interested me. One of them was riding a motocycle, another one was feeding the aluminum dogs, and others were doing something else like carrying stuff.

I have to say that they look silly to me, or maybe I should say that they are cute?

Anyway, they made me laugh when I was looking at them. By the way those metal dogs really looked like suasages. Haha.

It was  about -8 celcius inside the building. People needed to get a jacket in the front door so that they wouldn't catch a cold. Elly was wearing shorts, she said she couldn't even feel her legs in the end of the Expo. I was fine with the low temperature in there because I've been staying in Falgstaff, Arizona for one and a half year, and snow and cold weather like that were pretty common there. I wasn't feeling cold until 10 minutes later. 

There was snow on the ground and there were couples of Eskimo houses. There wasn't much in the house, only a few ice chairs. I was knid of disappointed when I saw the Expo because I thought it would be like the Body World, showing how it will be in Arctic and how the heat would affect the polar ice cap. But the Expo was actually more likely to be a place where you can experience how it is in Arctic, which is extremely cold.

This is a slide which was made of ice. It's cool and nice to slide down from it. (Just be careful you don't slide too many times or you might get your pants wet. :P) There was a camara in the middle of the slide so that you can buy your picture of yourself sliding down the ice slide after you get out from the Expo. There were also ice castles in the Expo. They were really big and nice and colorful. Too bad I didn't take a picture of the castle, it was pretty.

Elly was lifting the ice cube :)

There were many ice artworks ine the Expo. Like the castle I was telling about earlier. There were ice penguins, polar bears, an ice bar, and even a big carriage with a big ice horse!

I was hoping to be able to clinb up onto the horse's back, but the horse was slippery and there was no way that I can climb it. =  ="

This is the tea that they were having inside the Expo. You can use your ticket to exchange a cup of tea, it was tasty, but it was freezing as well. I thought it was hot so I was so excited to exchange my drink, but it ended up being so cold. :( It was fine though, I think it's knid of fun to have cold drink in Arctic. Haha.

By the way the ticket was NT$200 for students and NT$250 for adults. NT$30 for the jacket. I kinda feel unfair about the prizes, it was that much but the Expo wasn't what I thought it would be.

But I thnik I would take my niece and nephew to this Expo. It's a great oppurtunity for kids to learn the coldness in Arctic, and the Expo was like a big part that I think kids would have lots of fun there. :)

My favorite of the ice artworks was the one called "Statue of Liberty."

It wasn't the only one that had a meaning with, but the only one that really showed what it meant.

The Statue of Liberty was kneeling inside the ice castle, or I think it was more like a prison. Looked like the Statue of Liberty was being sorry about the heat making the ice cap melting. I think this artwork was telling that we should be responsable to the Global Warming. We should all be sorry and stop producing so many greenhouse gases.

I think this was also the meaning of this Polar Expo--to let us notice how bad we were destroying our Earth.

So, let's do this together, cut down our use of unrecyclable products and, like the title today, save the ice cap; save the polar bears. :)

(picture comes from google.com)

So CUTE :))

Last, I wanna say:

Love & Peace

2011  Polar Expo!!!

(Loving Elly and Anastasia)