NTU exchange goes to Little India!

These are a few pictures from Little India. This first picture is of us on the bus back home from little India.  This is our main form of transportation off campus.  This next picture is of part of the group of us that went.  To my immediate right and left are my friends Saly and Monica.  The three of us hang out often.  And the last picture is of a temple in Little India.  


Today is a pretty chill day here in sunny Singapore.  The other day I went with a group of exchange students to Little India downtown.  It was night, so we didn't really see many of the sidewalk hawkers, but we did go into a huge shopping center there called Mufasa Center.  It was ridiculously huge, as I am quickly learning, like most Singaporean shopping centers.  After some sightseeing, trying some Indian food, and looking at temples we headed back.  We have a knack for getting lucky and catching the very last bus back to campus.  While we may be good at catching the bus, as my friend Monica and I found out the next day, we are not good at knowing which bus to get on.  The two of us were trying to hop on a bus to get back to our dorm from the Staff Club and somehow ended up all the way at Boon Lay--the off campus bus station.  We then had to get off that bus, and make another wild guess as to which bus to get on to ride back to campus.  Monica and I got in a few heart to hearts on that trip.  

I had my first Singapore Sling at the Staff Club Mayflower pub on campus.  Monica and I paid S$15 for one.  The Staff Club is where all of the international exchange students hang out.  We were talking there last night about where we wanted to travel to, and began making a few plans for weekend trips to Malaysia, Cambodia, or Thailand.  Most of us want to travel as much as possible, so it won't be hard to find travel buddies.  Today we're all heading to the pool to cool off and have lunch at the canteen on campus.  All of the international students stick pretty close together.  We take care of each other, ha.  I have as the Singaporeans call it, "fallen ill" these past couple of days.  I have almost completely lost my voice.  I attribute this to talking to much, but my friends here have been taking good care of me.  Luckily I'm in the tea capital of the world and have no problem finding a cup of hot tea.  Other than my throat, I feel great still. I am every day meeting new, outstanding people, seeing things I have never seen before, and doing things I never dreamed I would do (still not eating fish though...).  Classes start tomorrow, so I am going right now to organize my schedule, map out how to get there, and buy a few notebooks.  I am interested to see if things settle down after classes start as lately we have been going nonstop.  More news soon!