2^nd March 2010

On the departure day, I have to wake up early to get to the airport. Upon reaching the airport some of my friends had already reach, some even stay overnight at the airport. Being the 1^st time going oversea alone, I feel sad and at the same time scared. Sad because I will not be able to see my family for about 6 weeks, scared is because I was afraid that I will not adapt well and will not cope well with my studies in a foreign environment. When my parents leave the airport, I was feeling a little down, but I try to cover my sadness by looking at the positive side as my friends will still be with me for the 6 weeks. It was a long journey to Wuhan. Before reaching Wuhan, we had to stay in Guangzhou Airport for 6 hours. Shi Yi, Jia Lin and me ate Mcdonalds at the airport, and it is very different from Singapore. The menu is all in Chinese and we need to order it in Chinese. Although I’m a Chinese but the way we speak is different from people in China, hence there is still a little difficulty while communicating.

The 6 hours was not long as we explore around the airport. We reach the hostel about 11pm. Upon reaching the hostel, we realized that there is no lift or escalator and we need to climb up the stair nevertheless carry our own bag up the stair, and to my horror my luggage is 25.3 kg. As we approach the room, my roommates and I were quite shock about the condition as it was far from what we expected, but we were too tired after the long journey to the hostel, so we turn in after settling down. I guess we have to quickly adapt to this new room as we had to stay in for another 5 weeks.