Breakfast of the day: Fillet o’ fish, corn cup & coke! (Please don’t drink coke with an empty stomach! You might get a stomach upset! )
While slowly savouring my breakfast meal, I was startled by the bustling activities that occurs right behind my dormitory. The traffic was already congested with the never-ending honking of cars.
The mini bazaar right behind our dormitory
Various street foods that you can appreciate
p/s: reminds me of Singapore!
wonder what this is? i reckon it's the police guarding the traffic, that morning!
Everyone has to meet up by 10am as we were brought around the university to familiarize ourselves with the places and classes. The local students and teachers were friendly when they brought us around the school. Somehow, the classes in here are quite similar compared to those in Singapore. Thus, there weren’t any major different that we cannot adapt in it. We surveyed the classrooms for our Project Management module and Overseas Immersion Experience (OIE) for the next 5 weeks.
our dormitory for the very next five weeks
Cheap haircut & laundry!
fairly astounded when we were "greeted" by this
what comes to your mind when you see this pic?
reminds me of Blk 1 in NP. well, main block of WUST!
parade square of Wuhan University of Science & Technology
Four musketeers! Lili, Lulu, Dee Dee & JoJo
fairly attentive aren't they? local students having lesson in Com Lab.
having lots of fun albeit it's the 1st day!
School Canteen. unfortunately the muslim food is unavailable
Fortunately, there were a bunch of local students that were helpful enough to bring us to the neighboring supermarket to get our basic necessities. Our basic necessities include tissue paper, kettle, detergents, some foods and beverages and more. But our main priority was the toilet seat. It was unavailable and the girls were slightly disappointed. I must admit that Singaporeans are pampered that we have to buy the toilet seat for our lavatory. We had quite a hard time translating the words since there was language barrier. We have to speak to them in Chinese in order to find our stuffs in the supermarket.
We were told to bring our own shopping bags as they charged 20 cents each for plastic bag. This is, saving the earth! Lucky that some places in Singapore practices “Bring Your Own Bag” (BYOB) as it will reduce the needs of plastic bag and increase environmental issues.
After the fulfilling lunch, everyone dragged their feet back to school to put our stuffs that we bought in the supermarket earlier on and cleaned up our room. Will sure to feel more homely!
My roommates and I turned in early as lesson starts early the next day.
guess what we bought?
everything for just under 300 RMB! worth it!!!!
pose pose pose!
okay, final pose before paying! :)
Reflection: Language barrier is quite critical as most of us are brought up in English language. We were taught to be independent in here as we get to clean our room and take care of our belongings ourselves. We are not supposed to call the waitress “xiao jie” as it is very rude in China. Xiao jie in China has another meaning while in Singapore we are free to call the waitress xiao jie as it does not reflect any bad impression on her. We have to be mindful with our words because their cultures are different from ours. Singapore should stop complaining about how bad their life can be, the Chinese living in the dormitory were trying to make ends meet. My opinion is that, we have to be grateful with whatever we have now.
1 comment:
Dear, wrong spelling la, "September" (your heading).
Looking forward to your blogs from Day 3 onwards. Don't delay your blogging, or else, you will forget what to write.
So, have you learnt how to address the waitress in China? Since XIAO JIE cannot be used.
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