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Left for China, Wuhan on the 1 Sept
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Thursday, September 3, 2009


1 sept 09:

Left my warm and cozy bed at 3am. Okays, actually I was nearly dragged outof bed because I didn't want to leave my hugg-able bloster behind. on the trip to the airport, I was thinking about what I would miss in Singapore and at the same time, wondering what new things await me in China. Fine. I lied. I was actually trying to catch up on my sleep. But I really thought of all of that before I slept the day before. My family and I reached the airport with half hour to spare and we loitered around, talking to each other and hunting for food. It took AGES before we were able to start our check-in. We waited at the airport for almost 2 hours before we entered the departure area. Since there was only 15 minutes left before we had to board the plane, we rushed to the gate (C16) and took a rest there. Apparently, no one i knew sat beside me so when we boarded the plane, I decided to just try to sleep all the way till Guang Zhou airport. We reached the GuangZhou airport (finally -.-) at around 11am. After all the procedures are done, it was already well into the afternoon (after 12noon).




This is the picture of the immigration inspection. Nearly all the words have an english translation. The whole airport is mostly coated in chinese and occasionally there will be a chunk of english translation for the rules and regulation. It quite different from SG(singapore) in the sense that SG usually have more than 2 different language translation e.g. chinese, english, malay, japanese. Probably because of the races in SG. =)



This is what we had for lunch in the airport, Macs! There were more varieties as compared to SG. Fine~ This isn't really the picture of MY lunch. I stole the picture from Jehanne. ( shhh..don't tell her!) Mine was similar, with the exception of the drink which was peach float and I had a blueberry sundae instead of chicken wings. A burger, float, fries and sundae only cost about 27 yuan (S$6++) which is cheaper as compared to its SG cousins.

We had to wait 5 hours for the connecting flight to Wuhan. It passed really sllloooooowwly and we only landed in Wuhan at 9+pm. The ride to the Wuhan campus took 1 and the half hours during which I took advantage of the time to take a nap. At the campus, they had dinner prepared for us but none of us were really hungry because it was already quite late and everyone was sleepy. However, I can say that the 11 course meal looks pretty nice.

The beauty of the 11 dish meal.

The next morning, we were able to see more of the campus. The library is just simply HUGE! It's almost the size of one of our normal buildings in NP campus. =)



The Picture of the Library near our dorm.

The main admin block



The supermarket opposite the dorm


Basically the second day was spent on shopping at the above supermarket for neccessities for our rooms. There were lots of stuff to buy and prepare. There were many stuff in China that is really different from those we saw and experienced in SG. One example will be the streets. In our clean and green city, we seldom see holes in the roads and cracked pavements. The streetside stores were clean and hygienic and the trash were thrown in the bins provided. Here in China, all of the abovementioned were opposites. You could see the cleaners busy trying to clean the mess and more of the passerbys adding on to the trash. There were minimal bins provided and apparently, the people here could not hold on to their rubbish for a while longer before finding a bin to get rid of their rubbish. I'd admit that I've had a shock when I tried to cross the roads. Perhaps we had all taken advantage of the relatively safe road environment in SG. When I was waiting for the blinking green lights to turn to red and then back to green to indicate safe crossing, there was a group of people crossing the road at that time. The timer had just reached zero and despite the people still trying to cross the zebra crossing, the cars just drove on without caring about the crossing people. This is probably something that I wouldn't be able to get used to.

The students of this campus are having a holiday which will end on fri. So hopefully I can learn more about the student life here which I think might be quite different from those in SG.



12:46 AM