Week 3
Day 1

8.am lessons! We had another guest lecturer teaching us today. He was touching on the business stuff which was not very interesting to many. He’s tone was monotonous, but nevertheless, he was filled with experience and told us quite a number of life examples.
After which, we went for lunch at canteen 3 where we tried out the rice with food. We proceeded straight to class and had did the summary of our IS before being released at 3 to go to the IT mall.
We took bus 901 to the IT mall and then changed 709 to the service centre for my camera. We went up and checked with the man and he told us that the warranty card and receipt must be present before it can be used , if not 400 RMB must be paid and a waiting period of 2 weeks, so I decided to get my camera fixed in Singapore. We proceeded to take the bus 709 back to the IT mall where we had to check it out.

When we went inside the mall, it looked just like Sim Lim Square in Singapore! So we went about checking the prices of some electronic things. We ended up at a shop and we were looking at 2 mp4 and an mp5. The mp5 had a camera, and the other 2 mp4 that looked really nice. We decided that if the lady could give us a discounted price the whole group would get it. So from 390 we negotiated to 350 RMB! The mp4 was a limited edition kind with the whole Jay Chou album inside it and was really quite good quality. If fact, we found out later that the brand that we got was actually quite good, so not bad a catch. The lady that sold us the mp4 was really excited when she knew we were from Singapore and was even more excited when she saw that we had Singapore notes which she decided to change with us.

We took a bus back to school. This was where I saw for the first time in my life, the handle bar being pulled out because the bus had braked too abruptly and the guy just pulled it right out! Apparently there were many empty holes in the bars so I guess that was what happened to the rest of the handle bars.

Had a meeting with Tom without having our dinner. He was the person that we got to know during the party we had yesterday. He brought us to the English corner of the language school where we interacted with the other students there. We exchanged much information with them and then left for the briefing.

I feel that Singapore should have something like this English corner where everyone in that corner had to practice their English, this could allow the students to practice their language as well as for them to open up more and talk. The Singaporeans in my opinion are very quiet and hardly interact much other each other so I feel that it would be a really good idea to have a corner such as this back in Singapore.