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Today we did a few pretty fun and interesting things.

The first fun thing was breakfast. A couple days ago we were in a super market, that just happened to be located in the middle of a mall, and we bought our favourite cereals from home. Today was the first day we were able to indulge, and it was incredible. I never realized how much I missed normal western breakfast food, and I'm not even really much of a breakfast person. The past week that we've been here, it's been surprisingly really difficult to find food that we would want to eat for breakfast, especially since there seems to be whole marinated ducks hanging in every restaurant and food stall that we walk by. Breakfast is too early for duck. Quite frankly, I'm starting to feel like dinner is even too early for duck. So, cereal this morning was pretty exciting.

Next exciting event on our list was booking our first weekend trip. We have decided that we are going to check out Thailand first, leaving next Wednesday night and returning Sunday night. We will be spending four nights there, and we're super excited. Our round trip flight from Singapore to Phuket was $250 SGD, which isn't amazing, but isn't too bad either. We're looking forward to seeing the beaches there, it sounds pretty incredible.

At 2 pm this afternoon we had our exchange orientation, where about 200 exchange students from around the world attended an info and welcome session. We met a few people, and made plans to meet at the campus pub later on. So, this evening we hung out at the pub for about 3 hours, just meeting and chatting with exchange students. It was pretty fun.

At around 11pm, Janene, Heather, and Tia went downtown to check out a nightclub. However, like moths to a flame, they ended up on Orchard Road shopping at midnight. Pretty standard.

Danielle and I decided it was a good idea to use the 24/7 McDonalds delivery hotline called "McDelivery"........we couldn't resist......but probably should have. I had a double cheeseburger and Danielle had the chicken burger, and we both had curly fries......that's right, remember the curly fries that McD's had in Canada for like 6 months, about 10 years ago? Yup, they're in Singapore, and they call them their "new" fries.....pretty exciting. The overwhelming feeling of yuck that accompanied this poor meal decision was not so exciting though....I'd like to say I've learned my lesson, but I'll probably do it again. Naturally.

Tomorrow we're being super tourists and going on a 2.5 hour boat tour called the Fairwind Junk Tour......sounds weird, but apparently you see some cool stuff. On Sunday we're going to check out the Singapore Zoo and the night Safari. Janene is overwhelmingly excited about the penguins, and there is apparently some kind of penguin parade that takes place, so we're gonna go there to feed her penguin addiction.

Good news is I finally got my computer working! Yaaay!! Turns out I didn't need a converter at all, my computer accepts up to 240V of input, so I can just use an adapter to plug it into the wall! Too easy. Thanks everyone who sent me tips though...some of them were pretty creative.

Well, it's almost 2am here, so I'm off to bed. That's all for now
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