Week 4
Day 3

Day of the theory test today. We could wake up late as there were no lessons in the morning. We set for the fiber optics and cable factory near to the shopping area that we went on the first few days of our stay here.

The factory only allowed pictures to be taken outside of the factory and in the main hall. Other than that, no pictures were allowed. The company that we went to is the world’s second largest, and it is biggest in the whole of China. They are very protective of their company’s secret for the manufacturing of the fiber optics. This can be seen from the videos that we were allowed to see a very short video, and we are not allowed to stay for very long. We got over the tour of the factory within the hour and took some pictures with the company’s logo before leaving for school.

Lunch was right up on our schedule once we arrived back to school. Lunch was simple with the exception that we had vegetarian noodles today. Reason being Sasi and Satish was being vegetarian today where Hwee Ping and I decided o accompany them. It tasted quite all right other than the fact that the soup went into my eye! Other than that, I tried opening the glass bottle again and it took me less than 10 seconds before I got it open. Looks like I will be trying some other methods of opening the bottle soon. Off to the service apartment to revise on the APPG test which was up in 2 hours. We went there once it was time and started doing it. An hour and 10 mins passed and we had to submit the paper. The paper was quite all right other than the fact that many people including me did not take the “for” loop and the “try” and “catch” method into consideration when studying for our test, and as a result, did not manage to really do it.

We visited Tom at his dormitory to take photographs of the living conditions of China students’ quality of living. It was quite small with 4 people staying under 1 roof. Their beds were elevated and their study area; directly underneath their beds. We moved on to have dinner outside. We bought fried rice form the nearby supermarket and ate it at KFC.

The weather today was really unpredictable. It kept raining and sometimes stops raining at the same time. Like with what will happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere, we need to be prepared for anything that is to come. Just like our test, we were not prepared for those small but considerably important methods to be learnt.