Tuesday, September 2, 2008

2.02 Interaction

Today morning I woke up quite last min and we went to c3 to have breakfast again. By the NP policy, we reached in class on the dot 915am! But anyway, we started lesson quite late. I think we need to be more punctual. And I supposed that I can have early rest from now onwards as I've caught up with my journaling!

walking up a hill/crowded with several students


We learnt about terms of reference (TOR) in PM today. I find very useful for a project manager, especially coming in terms of tracking agenda & looking out for a contigency plan.

outside our classrm with Mr. Tan (he has a funny smile as always)/gotcha funny ladies!

at 1F while waiting for briefing *someone's pointing!/a band of 5, spot the missing one! *this looks like some album art (commented by bingrong)
{the stars: shengkiat,bingrong,guoyuan,zhengwei,chengteck}

joyce(wassup),hannah,huirul,aishah/briefing starts

mini bus (一元/pax)

hannah,huiru,bingrong,me/chengteck,zw(looking @ girl),guoyuan(excited face)


It was the first time we (guys) took this bus! It was kinda fun and the best part, cheap! After the fast and bumby ride, we went off for lunch @ c2.

WUST hotel near c2

inside the hotel


Today in c2 is very different from other days. Instead of the usual ordering of rice at any stores, this time round they opened only 2 store and we've to queue up for our rice. Guess what? stunnedBoy (cheng teck) ordered a normal rice *abit miscomm and he got a hill of RICE (unsure if it's 60 or 80 cents) it's seriously alot. But somehow as we had little for our breakfast, he managed to whack everything!

I like this alot...
fried worms-eater (chicken!)

"tha gars" walking back to dorm!


At night 7pm! Interaction Activity (IA) has officially started! It's my first experience to engage with the China students It was good as we managed to get to know more about each other culture and personal life through the activities. Although it's just a short period of time to chit chat and get to know each other more, at least we get a basic detials of each other's identity. The IA took place from 7pm to 10pm, with loads of entertainment & games going on here and there in the school of Foreign Language. Enough said.

Here are the highlights of the evening:
i) Singing by one of the best local singer in WUST
ii) Indian dance by a troupe
iii) Chinese caligraphy
iv) Games
v) Final touchdown (songs going on, final catch up, pictures, performmance) *Closing

gathering of about 80 people/host of the day (amanda,koklong)
best singer/indian dance troupe
caligraphy (looks super nice) "Long Chen Wan Li"

my partner (Joyce in pink) and myself's first team in our station 03.
2nd game (drum/music chair)/1st game (untangled arms)
meiling & me/group pic (beside me the 2 of them is good dancer + singer) I can't dance...
GMs for the game station 03/joyce,me (she commented I look very dark! she's white "lah")
Today's wrapped up is about here. It's very fun and exciting for me eventhough the day is long & tired. Well, its fortunate that I get to know my nice partner and she's from "Hangzhou"! Doesn't she looks like Joey Meng, a Hong Kong actress from the show "My Date with a Vampire" - Ma Xiao Ling?

Reflections of the day: I noticed some difference when both of the culture meets. Most of them understood english & knows how to speak it too. However, some of them couldn't catch the phrases I used as they commented that I spoke too fast. thus, I've learnt to speak clearly & slowly until they are used to our accent. So then they are able to catch, understand and digest what I said.

Apart from their speech issues, I feel that they are very enthusiastic when coming in collaboration in carrying out the activities & giving forfeit ideas. I feel and assumed that they don't care about shyness in the public as much as we do, but all they want is simply to have fun!

I'm really looking forward in getting to know more about the local students!

I felt that the local student leaders & game organisers had really put up a good job in planning & executing! Also, importantly the local students are very friendly as hosts in putting up so much of the entertainment for everyone!

meanwhile, people please take good care!


jac

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