I can't believe that as of tomorrow we will have been here in Singapore for a week. On one hand it feels like we just got here, but on the other I feel like we've done so much, and so much as happened that we've been here for at least a month. I think that as we get more and more settled, time will fly by faster than we can anticipate. Carpe Diem has never had as much meaning to me as it does right now.
Today our goal was to be tourists. We planned on going on a boat tour, but on our way to the marina, it got really cloudy and looked like it was going to do that torrential downpour thing that Singapore clouds like to do. So, we panicked, and decided it wouldn't be too desireable to be caught in that kind of weather on a little boat. We'll do the tour another day.
By the time we got to the marina (where we got to see the ocean here for the first time in daylight, and it's way blue-er than I thought it would be, it's beautiful!), we were hungry and looking for lunch. We found an amazing Japanese food place where we were able to satisfy all our cravings for sushi, gyozas, edamame, tenaki, and Danielle even got her salad. Life was good.
After lunch we ventured down to Chinatown to check it out. Janene and I got very lost earlier in the week, walking around downtown looking for a place to have breakfast, and thought that one of the places we passed through was China Town. Nope. We were wrong. Dead wrong. After seeing what we saw today, we definitely would have known for sure if we were in Chinatown. We walked through a strip of little shops, which took us over an hour just to get through one strip, and it turned out we had only walked a block! The amount of people there was insane. I know I've said the malls are bad, and there are tons of people everywhere, but this was ridiculous. Hundreds, upon hundreds of people were slowly shuffling through this one little area. It was definitely an interesting place to be, but after spending a few hours there, we decided to cancel our quest for a chinatown dinner, and head back to less crowded ground.
And so we hit the mall. Again. Surprised? I think there has only been one day our entire time here that we have not shopped in a mall. It's like an addiction. We were quite productive with our shopping today though, as we finally found shorts that fit us and that we liked. Also, we were able to find this store called "Fair Price Xtra", which is like a very hectic Walmart (busy Walmarts in North America have nothing on Fair Price Xtra......nothing), where we were able to buy things like more cereal (thank goodness), snacks for our dorm rooms, and laundry detergent.
We booked our hostels tonight for when we go to Thailand next week. The first three nights will be spent in Phuket, close to the beach, and our fourth night will be spent in Ko Phi Phi. We are taking our backpacks on the plane as carry-on, so not to go through the lost luggage chaos that we just went through. Danielle still doesn't have her suitcase full of her clothes, so hopefully that comes for her before we leave. She has most her essentials, just not clothes, so she's been borrowing from the four of us until hers arrive. Hopefully hers arrives, the airport still has no idea where it is........which would cause me to freak out, but she's surprisingly calm about the whole thing, and handling it very well.
As I mentioned in my last post, tomorrow we go to the zoo. Janene can harldy contain herself, she's so excited to see the penguins. Apparently her life-long dream is to pet a penguin. I'm hoping she gets a good fix of them tomorrow. After the zoo we are going to go to the Night Safari, where we get to see all the nocturnal animals, which is bound to be a cool experience.
Monday morning we start classes. I don't feel mentally prepared to start classes, because I've been on co-op for the past eight months, and have been in major unemployed/travel mode for the last little while. So, I'll have to actually go to lectures and study? In beautiful, hot Singapore? Really? Is there someone I can speak to about having this changed, because I'm really not in the mood............there must be some kind of mistake.
We have to go through the most-likely frustrating experience of attempting to change our class schedule around to meet our ideal travel needs. We're trying to build a schedule where we have class Mon-Wed, and then have Thurs-Sun to travel each week. I know, it sounds unrealistic, but we're hoping. Keeping our fingers crossed. We get access to attempt this manoever on Monday night, so it's going to be interesting.
Tonight Janene and I are finishing our work term reports for our co-ops that we just completed back home. A work term report is really the last thing that we want to be writing right now, but it needs to be done. Wish us luck at the zoo tomorrow, we might not be able to get Janene to leave.
xoxox
Today our goal was to be tourists. We planned on going on a boat tour, but on our way to the marina, it got really cloudy and looked like it was going to do that torrential downpour thing that Singapore clouds like to do. So, we panicked, and decided it wouldn't be too desireable to be caught in that kind of weather on a little boat. We'll do the tour another day.
By the time we got to the marina (where we got to see the ocean here for the first time in daylight, and it's way blue-er than I thought it would be, it's beautiful!), we were hungry and looking for lunch. We found an amazing Japanese food place where we were able to satisfy all our cravings for sushi, gyozas, edamame, tenaki, and Danielle even got her salad. Life was good.
After lunch we ventured down to Chinatown to check it out. Janene and I got very lost earlier in the week, walking around downtown looking for a place to have breakfast, and thought that one of the places we passed through was China Town. Nope. We were wrong. Dead wrong. After seeing what we saw today, we definitely would have known for sure if we were in Chinatown. We walked through a strip of little shops, which took us over an hour just to get through one strip, and it turned out we had only walked a block! The amount of people there was insane. I know I've said the malls are bad, and there are tons of people everywhere, but this was ridiculous. Hundreds, upon hundreds of people were slowly shuffling through this one little area. It was definitely an interesting place to be, but after spending a few hours there, we decided to cancel our quest for a chinatown dinner, and head back to less crowded ground.
And so we hit the mall. Again. Surprised? I think there has only been one day our entire time here that we have not shopped in a mall. It's like an addiction. We were quite productive with our shopping today though, as we finally found shorts that fit us and that we liked. Also, we were able to find this store called "Fair Price Xtra", which is like a very hectic Walmart (busy Walmarts in North America have nothing on Fair Price Xtra......nothing), where we were able to buy things like more cereal (thank goodness), snacks for our dorm rooms, and laundry detergent.
We booked our hostels tonight for when we go to Thailand next week. The first three nights will be spent in Phuket, close to the beach, and our fourth night will be spent in Ko Phi Phi. We are taking our backpacks on the plane as carry-on, so not to go through the lost luggage chaos that we just went through. Danielle still doesn't have her suitcase full of her clothes, so hopefully that comes for her before we leave. She has most her essentials, just not clothes, so she's been borrowing from the four of us until hers arrive. Hopefully hers arrives, the airport still has no idea where it is........which would cause me to freak out, but she's surprisingly calm about the whole thing, and handling it very well.
As I mentioned in my last post, tomorrow we go to the zoo. Janene can harldy contain herself, she's so excited to see the penguins. Apparently her life-long dream is to pet a penguin. I'm hoping she gets a good fix of them tomorrow. After the zoo we are going to go to the Night Safari, where we get to see all the nocturnal animals, which is bound to be a cool experience.
Monday morning we start classes. I don't feel mentally prepared to start classes, because I've been on co-op for the past eight months, and have been in major unemployed/travel mode for the last little while. So, I'll have to actually go to lectures and study? In beautiful, hot Singapore? Really? Is there someone I can speak to about having this changed, because I'm really not in the mood............there must be some kind of mistake.
We have to go through the most-likely frustrating experience of attempting to change our class schedule around to meet our ideal travel needs. We're trying to build a schedule where we have class Mon-Wed, and then have Thurs-Sun to travel each week. I know, it sounds unrealistic, but we're hoping. Keeping our fingers crossed. We get access to attempt this manoever on Monday night, so it's going to be interesting.
Tonight Janene and I are finishing our work term reports for our co-ops that we just completed back home. A work term report is really the last thing that we want to be writing right now, but it needs to be done. Wish us luck at the zoo tomorrow, we might not be able to get Janene to leave.
xoxox
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