One week in Beijing!

Dear all,

Sorry for the late replies to some - fell sick on thurs so i was in bed all day :( It's really different falling sick over here man! For one, to get to the school's in-house medical centre, it's a walk through the cold, right across the campus! We were joking that if we were really deathly ill, we'd be dead by the time we got there! The doctor also keeps encouraging us to go to the hospital cos we have travel insurance - one of our friends got sent there yest morning and the experience was.. well.. interesting. There were rows and rows of shops outside the hospital selling the same thing - coffins! >< imagine the survival rate of going to the hospital.... So far, about 4-5 of us have taken ill.. mostly stomach flu cos the food here's more oily and takes more effort to get used to. To be really honest, i kinda realise that nothing much can beat our wonderful variety of food available to us singaporeans. No wonder they say that Singapore is food paradise - they weren't kidding! (or maybe school canteen food's just.. bad, haha) Gotta tell you about the interesting thing that happened today! It was washing day, so i hung out my wet, washed clothes outside my bedroom window to dry. To my amusement, 'smoke' started to rise from my clothes! (It's really due to the difference in temperature of the clothes and the air) My roommates claimed it'd dry faster, it having drier air out there and all. When i came back in about an hour, i went to check on my clothes and realised that they'd frozen stiff! The water content in my clothes had frozen to form "ice suits" of clothes! haha. It was really hilarious. Should have taken photos, but was too concerned about rescuing my frozen clothes from the cold then! haha.. lesson to learn - clothes don't 'hang outside to dry' in winter! Heh, besides killing my clothes, we also went out the entire of today - to tiananmen and some other hotspots.Another workday burnt. Photos coming right up! Still having a little indigestion and a bad throat, but all's good ;)





Just a little look at some of my fellow BiTC mates here :) to be really honest, i haven't remembered most of their names yet!


Will check back in soon, but right now it's bedtime - before sick becomes too sick! haha.. ;)

Cheers!

Day One!

I'm in Beijing! It's really cold here, when we went out in the morning today it was -1 degrees! >< haven't taken much pictures, but will send some along when i do!

Workdays are really short here - 9am to 11am, and 12 to 4. It's also compulsory to do CCAs and other activities, so our free time is pretty much taken up too :S So far it's just been really fun and tiring all at the same time. Sitting in heated rooms makes everyone fall asleep - not just me :P we're barely working today cos we just had a major tour of the school and its environments, and will be going to buy some neccessities later on. The cold really makes you realise the need for good warm clothing!

Anyway, here's just 2 beautiful shots from the plane window. The sky was irresistably beautiful during take off while frost formed on the window by the time we were about to touch down.. Beautiful!