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My hostel!

Day 2- 26 aug 08 (tue)

Early in the morning at about 8am, we went to have breakfast at the school’s canteen. There were nothing much left for breakfast as they usually open at a really early timing of 6am. The habits of China people are of an early bird kind, they wake up really early.

After breakfast was a tour around the school. It was H-U-mongous! Like a few times of Ngee Ann Polytechnic as their various divisions seem to be very far away from one another. The buildings ranged from really old and dingy to newly built ones. The differences between the new and old ones were really big. There were like 30 basketball courts in the area. I guess the school is just too big! HA! Anyway, the school stretches to over the other side of the road and we used the underpass constructed for the students as the traffic was unbecoming. We took at least 20-30minutes to walk to my soon-to-be classroom. Mine was located at the 7-storey!!

NO LIFTS!

The school was really empty as the students have yet to report to school as it was their holiday still. There were lots of hawkers by the sidewalk and even in the back alley. All the fooood. Fried rice, Noodles and soup. All the Chinese cuisine... Gotta try them!
After the long and tiring walk, we went to Carrefour, which was in their shopping mall. Quite a cool shopping mall though! It’s like sg’s but bigger. The place was quite empty and we tried the Zha Jiang Mian:). There were carrots and cucumber slices for 10rmb (2SGD). We took the bus back to the hostel to wash up for the welcome ceremony. (grand eh?).

Btw, the bus system was quite weird. For non-airconditioned buses with farecards, it is more expensive by 20cent RMB compared to paying by cash and for airconditioned buses with farecards, it is cheaper with the farecard. :S weird.

We felt very welcomed by the Chinese teachers who held a conference style welcoming session for us. The vice principal gave a welcoming speech followed by the various teachers and more importantly, our lecturer and our representative-IVY. Ivy was really very compost and her Chinese speech was awesome. We expected students to be there but there were only the teachers and VP.

Tomorrow we are setting off for the san xia tour. 3days away from the hostel!

Hopefully, the internet connection will be up by the time we are back. :)

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