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Monday, October 12, 2009, 11:59 PM
Day 42Airport, going home
12am:
Celebrate Chin Kuang’s birthday under the drizzle!
12.30am-5.30am:
Last chance to sleep on the bed.
5.30am:
Woke up and went out with a few people to light up the fireworks that we did not manage to do so last night.
6.30am:
Collected our rice key chains from the guy and bid goodbye.
7.30am-8.30am:
Back to the campus, had our final breakfast of Chee Cheong Fun and bought the chewy corn to bring back to my family in Singapore.
8.30am-11.30am:
Final clearing and packing of our things. Took pictures with the landlady of our hostel.
12pm:
Off we go!!!
2 hours of bus ride to Wuhan Airport + 1 hour of waiting + 2 hours of flight from Wuhan Airport to Guangzhou Airport for transition + 2 hours of waiting + 4 hours of flight from Guangzhou Airport to Singapore Changi Airport.
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 11:32 PM
Day 41Last minute shopping @ Grand Ocean
Second last day in Wuhan. While the others went to shop at the other areas, Xanier and I had our last shopping trip to Grand Ocean. Since it’s our last shopping trip, we took their public bus instead of the normal taxis or private vans. Because today is their public holiday, a lot of students had gone out for their shopping trip too.
After the boarding of the bus filled with its passengers, we had a sense of achievement. A big thank you for Xanier, who went to take the bus with me and helped me to squeeze onto that bus.
Shopping, shopping, and shopping. The purpose of today’s shopping trip is mainly to buy all the stuffs that we haven’t bought for our relatives and friends. The shopping mall is too huge that we took about 3 hours of walking in that mall! Even Xanier felt tired with those long hours of shopping. Met CK and gang along the way, but we took a private cab back to hostel first as we were rushing back to pack and weigh our luggage.
Back in the campus, we managed to repack our stuffs into our luggage and weigh it on the weighing machine. As there isn’t much people weighing at that period of time, Xanier and I weighed myself on the scale. Guess what, Xanier lost about 5kg, and I gained about 3kg!!! Sigh… The result of eating too much without control.
Luckily we had our luggage weighed way before the students form other divisions came to weigh theirs too. A word “chaotic” could be the best word to describe the scenario. Later in the night, a group of us went out to light up the fireworks that we have bought. However, as our intentions were discovered by the security guards and we were supposedly not allowed to light up in the campus, we had to return back to our hostel.
Reflections
I will definitely miss the smelly beancurd, 汤包(tang bao), Teppanyaki, and their satay squid there. I would say 42 days of immersion is just nice, not too long and not too short. But knowing that we will be going back to our own homes and living styles make me feel both happy and sad. Happy that I could see my family again; sad that I would have to bid goodbye with my friends that have always been beside me for the 42 days. It is so unbelievable that the 21 of us has turned from strangers to friends, or even best friends. A very unforgettable trip, I would say. But for every start, there will has an ending. Thank you guys for being so a wonderful bunch of people!!!
13 more hours left.
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 8:54 PM
Day 40
Trip to 武昌解放路, last dinner with the China students
Today, we went to another place recommended by the taxi driver in China. 武昌解放路 (a.k.a. Wuchang Jie Fang Street) is the place where we went for our Yellow Crane Tower and the Hubei Museum trip. We took a 45 minutes or ride there, and we had our lunch at the food street called首义园小吃街 (Shou Yi Yuan Xiao Chi Jie). Like what the WUST did, we had to purchase an ez-link card thing to buy for our food. I loved their smoothie and their 汤包(tang bao) a lot!!! Burrr---rp!
After we had our meal, we explored around the place and walked down into the streets. Along the way, we saw many demolished buildings and looked at the way how the lower-income group of the China citizens had lived: dark and crampy quarters. Hence, I am glad that I am able to live in Singapore, with a family that is not well to do, but at least able to pay for our electricity bills and my school fees.
At last, after going out of the residential area, we saw shopping streets! Whole stretch of stores for you to shop til’ drop! Shopping spree!!!
Going to be late for the farewell dinner organized by the WUST student leaders for all Ngee Ann students and lecturers, we rushed ourselves back to the school. In the end, after much chaotic moments, we had ourselves in to the first dining area that we had during our first night in Wuhan. Wow, from the first night till the last second last night here…
Reflections
Time flies, time flies, time really flies. So fast, and we are going to go back to Singapore soon. Final thanks to the WUST student leaders in making us feel like home here, make friends between the two different countries, and share all the wonderful stuffs with us. Even though I do not bear to leave here too soon, I know that there has to be an ending when there’s a start. So when will we meet again after this trip? Let’s leave it to fate.
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