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Where The Grass Is Greener

Wuhan City

Day 17
19.3.09


this was what we suffered from today. NO LIGHT. there wasn't any electricity and no water when we woke up in the morning. we had to survive on the remaining water in our water bottles and the kettle. it was so pathetic that we couldn't even flush. yeah. exactly. ewwww. so i had to rush to the school toilet eventhough i really didn't like to use it cos its really really dirty. and since we used like all our water bottle and kettle water, i bought 1.5 litres of water.

after math, we waited like 2 hours for our tour guides to reach our school to give us a talk on the safety requirements on the cruise ship which is 4 stars by the way. which to us might be 2? we'll see tmw. what was most important to us was whether we had toilets and whether we could shower in the ship. and YES! YAYNESS! there's showers in each room. and everyone cheered. we're not happy about the trip, we're happy we have toilets, our very own toilets! haha! and luckily there are sockets. and the food in the ship will be provided for so we dont need to pay for anything we eat :) but i heard it's tasteless so yeah us 4 girls are well prepared with our own food.

ok then we went back to our dorms, STILL WITHOUT WATER AND ELECTRICITY. i decided to go to sleep but couldn't sleep so in the end me and kang qi decided to go down and play badminton since like everyone else in our dorm building decided to play either socer, basketball or badminton at the front of our dorm since the whole building is in civil defense mode. then later kit decided to join us but she couldn't play badminton for nuts. then later this african man named mustaffa played badminton with me then later a russian guy then later kit's russian guy then another arab guy named azhar and then an american woman who doesn't like to get her hands dirty. she was like ewww when i picked up the shuttle cock from the ground. rightttttt. but nah, none were a match for me. haha! kidding. so yeah after that we went to get ice cream since amanda was still sleeping. on our way back, an african man randomly stopped and asked kit what she was eating. it was such a shocking thing really. kit said vanilla and he din know what vanilla is so kang qi had to translate it for her. kit's chinese cannot make it really. we reached back to our dorms and the electricity and water still haven't revived yet. so we were in total darkness. so amanda shared with us her st theresa's ghost stories which were freakishly scary. and at around 7+ the lights came back! and i had the shock of my life and i screamed and ran. yeah. my true girly side. it was. embarassing.

we headed for dinner at this new arab place and we ate some fried ban mian. it was nice but it costs 10 yuan. abdul's family, who lives at our dorm building, popped by the same restaurant for dinner. they ordered mutton satay and mutton bread. which looked really good but i don't like mutton cos of the smell. abdul's elder brother is so much friendlier and funnier than abdul. he's around 5? he offered us satay sticks and talked ALOT. his comments were hilarious too. like he jokingly said i was fat and i probably ate alot of rice and when he offered kit another satay stick, he said i needed to lose weight. i wasn't offended really. i think it was clever of him though cos like in singapore the kids are never this straightforward and they don't dare like talk to strangers. so yeah it made my day. the kids here are really not scared of strangers and they're the sweetest things. then later he said he was just kidding with me. awwww. or maybe he said that os his dad asked him to apologise when he warned him with a slap hand gesture. haha. oh well. then after that kit and kang qi had their usual tea while i had a bottle of orange juice. fariz and i had street stall fried tofu. yum. on the way back, fariz brought us to this super market which kind of like reminded us of Sheng Shiong supermarket back in singapore. i bought bubble gum while kit and kang qi bought milk sweet. later we found out that the sweet is the same brand of milk that first found out that their milk contained melamine. so yeah. their risk. fariz bought biscuits and i realised the biscuit auntie recognised me since i buy my biscuits and nuts from there. she and i are already friends man. my homie. haha!

today has been an awesome day. made friends with the people in our dorm building and finally perspired and exercised a little! if it weren't for the loss of electricity and water, i don't think we would have played badminton in the first place. the secuirity guard woman is still unfriendly to us. but she's nice to the other residents here. i think we complain alot that's why. no this electricity, no water, no internet. pfft whatever.

off for the cruise tmw! will be back on sunday evening. good to hear my grandma misses me! :D

ps. results day tmw. too bad i won't be able to see my npal D:

end of day 17!


Yours Truly
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Nur Aqilah

This site's called 'The Four Gates' cos HuaZhong Normal University has four entrance gates. Duh.
North, South, East and West.



Bunk Mates!
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Amanda

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Kang Qi

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Kit Ming

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