Day 3- 1st Physiology and OIE lesson

Today is the start of lesson!

Woke up at 7 plus am to wash up and ate breakfast at the school canteen. Apparently, we were late for the first lesson :P haha..

During lesson time, Yan Fang and I were sitting in front of this air-con. Poor Yan Fang was directly facing it! Hahaha.. But it kind of kept us awake when Dr Lau said that it provides more oxygen in our brain.. (Gosh! Why am I talking about bio in my blog? haha)

The air con plus water dispenser

After morning lesson, we had lunch at about 11.30am. Nobody was in the canteen when we were there. But at 12 pm, all the china students started streaming into the canteen like a flood of people rushing into the canteen! It feels like the peak period in makan place! This canteen is air-conditioned too. The main difference is that the china students eat so fast! And they practically sit on any seat available, and although some were sitting together with their friends, they were all concentrating on finishing their food, didn't really see them chatting while eating. This is so unlike Singaporeans which I feel that eating together with friends is a form of socalising as well. I guess they have other ways of socialising! Would be really interesting to find out!

By about 12.25pm, almost the whole canteen is empty and the stall owners are clearing up. Only 25 mins had passed! How fast is that! If only Singaporeans will eat that fast, everyone wouln't need to desperately find tables and chairs in makan place!

Anyway, I ate rice with 2 veg dishes (yes, I've gone vegetarian! hahaha) for only 3.40 Yuan. That's about (S)$0.68. It's so cheap!! :O And only Eddy was able to finish the food that he bought.. the rest of us couldn't! Haha..

Oh, and the amazing thing is that the china students would finish the whole bowl of rice/noodles that they ordered. I wonder if they're very hungry or they were taught from young to cherish and finish whatever food is given to them. This is so different from Singapore. I'm sure we wouldn't finish our food all the time.

We sat in the canteen, enjoying the air con and talking about the china students.. We sat there for like 45 mins and the 'cleaners' (who looked like students dressed nicely in dress and skirts) were giving us the 'unpleasant look'. Oops! Did we sit there for too long? We don't even dare to return our bowls and plates to them because we didn't even finish our food! We had so much leftovers! So pai seh leh! hehehe.. So, finally, the min they left, we quickly return the bowls and plates to the table and quickly left the place! hahaha! It was so funny!

So after that, when we went back to class at abt 1.30pm, we started our OIE class with a movie that Dr Lau showed us! The movie is the red cliff part 2. (yes, we watched the whole movie! Shiok right? haha) Though I was sleepy, I thought the movie was thought-provoking. I understood the history better :) And thought that the leaders are very rational (of course), skilful, logical and need to be far-sighted. They even thought of what the enemies would do! I guess that this can be applied to government leaders in some ways. Like how the Singapore government started newater because of the termination of contract with Malaysia soon, and how Singapore had fostered a good relationship with other countries (allies!) in order to maintain peace in Singapore (We can't afford to have war!) All these are some of the good qualities of a leader. As for China, I'm looking forward to understand the government system and maybe Singapore can adopt/ improve certain ways of running the country. For example, the education system?

After the movie, we went back hostel and started to get ready for dinner! Some stayed in hostel while a few of us went out to eat in a small restaurant nearby. And here are the photos:

The dishes we ordered: rice, veg, egg with tomato, potato with pork? and chicken. Not too bad though. Believe it or not, this meal cost only 40 Yuan! For 7 of us! FYI, to covert Yuan to Sing, just divide Yuan by 5. Surprised after doing your calculation per person in Sing? haha

Oh, and I ate xiao long bao after dinner! Yay! But was the soup inside was quite salty and oily. Overall, it's still alright :)

Reflection
(the words in green above are the reflections)

Day 2- Campus Orientation

After a good night (or early morning) rest, it's time for campus orientation!

Woke up at about 8.40am and had Macdonalds for breakfast.

Left the hostel at 10am and the teachers brought us around the campus to familarize with the place.

As we were walking, we saw some china students studying outside! Yes, burying their heads in their books! I should learn from them.. maybe I'll wake up early, bring my notes to the park/ study downstairs in the morning (when I'm back in Singapore :P) . Hahaha

Took some pics along the way:

The teachers then introduced to us some of the classrooms we'll be using and also a few china students who'll be interacting with us along the way. And they are really friendly and helpful. I'm sure I'll have a great time with them :)

After that, we went to see the big canteen and the food there is really cheap!

After bringing us around the campus, we went to a big supermarket to buy all the things we need. I didn't know shopping for these stuff can be so 'mah fan' at times. Haha..

At about 6 plus, Maqqie(who just ended class) brought us around to buy more stuff, helped us with the negotiations and bought sim cards and she showed us where she's staying. And while walking, I got to talk to her and realised that studying in English for some subjects for them is very tough. I admire them for their perserverance! I think I'll be kicked out of school if I have to study in chinese because I won't understand :P hehehe...

Yay, I can finally contact da-jie with my china sim card! :D Hehe..

Refelection

Today, we had a tiring day out buying stuff, but while walking down the streets, I thought it was an eye-opener because the streets are very different from Singapore. And some of the buses have solar panels on top! How interesting and environmentally friendly. I felt that it was challenging speaking to the shop owners as I'm pretty lousy in my chinese and hence, very hard for me to catch what people are saying. Thankfully, we had the china students to help us around. I'll try to improve my chinese during this period of time as I think it's important for communication. I hope for the next few days, I'll get to interact with the china students more so that I can understand their student life here. And I think it'll be something very different from Singapore.

Day 1- Flying off to Wuhan!

Today is a day that when I look at the moon, I look down, not up. Haha.. Why? Because I was on the aeroplane, 'flying above the moon'.

I woke up at about 7 plus today, and got all ready to leave for the airport. And I played monopoly deal with kor once while he was eating his breakfast :) (oh, he didn't eat breakfast twice today! Hehe) I shall not say who won. *ahem*

Finally left the house at about 10.20am. Said my goodbye to da-jie's bed. (aww.. will miss it lots!)

Reached the airport, saw the rest of the class, take some photos and checked in our luggage. In my mind, I was dreading the airplane ride though.. never really like them.

Boarded the plane at 1 plus pm, plane ride was 3.5 hrs. We reached Guangzhou and had dinner at the airport. Then waited for quite some time to board the plane to Wuhan.

And it was on this plane when I was looking down on the moon.

Finally, we reached Wuhan! Took a long, bumpy bus ride to the hostel. And by the time we've washed up and everything, it was already 3 plus am. And I dozed off to sleep....

Thank you Father for the safe trip and for relieving my headache.

Wuhan airport at midnight.