Day 42 - Goodbye China!

Woke up early in the morning to prepare and get ready to leave. All the wonderful memories we had for the past 42 days will be forever in our hearts with us and we will never forget. Met at 8.50am in the morning at the enterance of the hostel to wait for our coach that will bring us to the airport. We even woke up as early as 5.30am to go out and set our last and only fireworks before we go off.

Last room 319 photo!

Everyone prepared to leave!

Reached Wuhan airport at about 10.30 am and all of us had to carry our enormous luggage to for check in. Weighed our luggage and as expected, my luggage did not went overweight. Since we had lots of time before our flight, all of us decided to go to KFC to have our lunch. After finishing our lunch, we went to board our plane bound for Guangzhou. We had to transit at Guangzhou before we could reach Singapore.

Our flight bound for Singapore!!

Welcome back to Singapore!!

Last photo we took together before going our separate ways after 42days ):

Reflections
Lighting up fireworks is something that I had never done before, it was totally new to me. Doing this together with friends is something fun, enjoyable and of course unforgettable. Being there for 42 days with only friends but no family members and doing every single thing by ourselves has really show us how good our life are in Singapore. Learning to overcome everything by ourselves is also funny and enjoyable with many minor incidents happening along the way. This will really be a unforgettable trip and immersion program for me. I will really miss all the cheap and good food at the roadside stalls, weather, bargaining experience with the shop owners and of course our learning experience there. I will also miss all the other 20 people and Mr Loh, for all the good memories, joy and laughter that we had together in Wuhan. (:

Day 41 - 光谷 for the last time

Our last time visiting Grand Ocean! All of us were left with some cash and we decide to spend finish our money today at Grand Ocean. By now most of us were quite familiar with the surroundings and shops in Grand Ocean. When we first came, we had to look at the directory to find our way around.

Crowded as usual!Had Ajisen for the third time!

Finished up our lunch and we went on to our last shopping spree in China! Bought alot of stuffs such as food, adidas shirt, shoes and etc. Finished up our shopping and we went back to our hostel. Went out to the night market to eat as all of us wants to have our last dinner at the night market which hold lots of memories for us. Ate finish and everyone went back to start packing up our luggage for tomorrow!

Day 40 - Farewell Dinner

Took the mini van to another different location to shop today. We went back to 首义园 to have our lunch, this time round there wasn't much people and we could eat slowly without having to worry about the time! After having a good lunch, we went on to look around and find for the shopping area that was introduced to us by the friendly taxi driver i chance upon a few days back. He told us that it was the main shopping street for the people in Wuchang before Grand Ocean came out.

Finally reached our destination!

Fresh Cockles!

Trying to find the shopping area nearby

Did quite some shopping and I manage to buy a pair of shoes and a few shirts as they were having a warehouse clearance sales. Met up with everyone and we managed to get a van and a taxi to bring us back to school for the farewell dinner that was organized by the China students here.

MDE group photo!

Reflections
When shopping here in China, you could bargain at most of the stores here. Usually the moment you communicate in English with your friends, they will know that you are a foreigner and will tend to charge you more. But if you know how to bargain, you could actually reduce the price by more than half. This isn't something that you can do in Singapore, if you were to start bargaining with them too much, they will start giving you attitude and a irritated look.
Also when you are shopping here, if u request to take a look at the item, they will gladly take it down and let you have a look. Even if you decide not to buy it, they will not give you a irritated look and instead they will just say its ok and ask you politely to have a look at other products. But in Singapore, if you request to look at a item and did not buy it. They will have a irritated look on their face and will not even say anything to you.

Day 39 - Presentation & Rest Day

Had our last class for BPE today, had assignment 3 presentation today and it was not a good one. Finished up with everyone's presentation and that marks the end of BPE for all of us! The presentation ended at about 4pm and all of us went back to our bunks to have a rest. Everyone went to have their group meeting at 5.30 for the discussion on the IS video that we had to make at the end of the trip.

Our last lesson in this classroom!

Having a last look at the surrounding ):

Day 38 - Chicony Shopping Mall

Today's presentation got cancelled as there was no classrooms available for us. So we decided to go out and shop again! Most of us were getting bored with the same few malls we were going thus we asked the mini van uncle to bring us to some where new. We ended up going to 群光广场(Chincony Shopping mall) to walk. The interior decoration and shops look just like Takashimaya. Had Ajisen Ramen once again as most of the people that came out today didn't went with us to had Ajisen yesterday.

Takashimaya lookalike!

My cockles ramen!

BreadTalk in China!

Didn't do too much shopping today as the pricing of the items here are also very much similar to those in Takashimaya. Walked around the other malls and found cheaper items to buy. Played around in the arcade there too before heading back to Chicony for dinner at their food court. The pricing of the food there are similar to the price of food in food court of Singapore.

Reflections
Finding a toilet in China can be really difficult at times. There wasn't much clear directions given even in shopping malls. We had to walk around the place twice before we could even find it due to that their toilet is hidden at one small corner on the level.

Day 37 - Assignment 3

Had brunch in the afternoon at KFC with Zhong Rong and Yoke May. Ordered a family feast and 3 of us shared. It was quite similar to the one you get when you order in Singapore, except that there is also sweet corn included inside. Finished up the food and we went back to our hostel and started working on assignment 3. It wasn't as easy as it seems at first, had quite some difficultly while doing the flexsim model. In the end, all of us had to call up Mr Loh to come and take a look at our models. Thanks Mr Loh for the help!!

Part of our brunch!

KFC Egg tarts!!!!

Went off again to Grand Ocean after completing my part on assignment 3 with some of the rest who finished up their assignment 3 as well. Had our dinner at Ajisen, the pricing of the food here are much cheaper then those in Singapore. Finish our dinner and all of us went for our umpteen round of shopping around the area before heading back to our hostel.

Day 36 - 光谷(Grand Ocean) yet again..

Another shopping day! Didn't know where to go, so we decided to go 光谷 again for shopping! We decided to take a mini van there. It was recommended by Edy who by conincidence get to know the uncle and we could just call him to pick us up at our school and bring us there for only 30Rmb. We could squeeze up to 10 person inside the van, although it was a little uncomfortable but it was real fun with so many people inside!

All the 10 of us squeezing in the van!