September 11, 2009
Day 11 - Soccer with the locals
First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MING YU!
Had our first IS class today at 9am. The class is conducted by a lecturer from the campus and in English too! She is known as 谢老师. She can speak English quite fluently as I can still quite understand her.
Today's lecture is about China's culture. Got to know about some interesting facts, such as how the car plate numbers are formed. Got to know what are the food they eat, places they visit and such. Afternoon's BPE class was somehow canceled due to the fact that we are very lethargic.
Had lunch at the same place as yesterday's. Initially wanted to order the steak, but it was out of stock, so had beef stomach claypot rice. Went back to hostel to do our BPE assignment and get a rest.
In the evening, Alvin, Chin Kuang, Daniel and me went to buy some birthday cakes for Ming Yu and Shun Qing's birthday. It was an advanced one for Shun Qing. We celebrate it at the sports complex.
Later on, I joined Edy, Roy, Jerold, Polim, Erwin, and Kai Chung for soccer with some of the local students. It was fun and we won 5-2. I scored quite a few! Whoever concedes a goal have to do 5 push-ups as punishment, good way to train your physical too!
Just now, some of the local students, or known as our buddies, came to find us to discuss on what they plan to bring us around during next week. Looking forward to it!
Reflections
It was quite amazing to hear that 谢老师 can speak such good English although she still have some sort of the China accent. From what I heard, she's never gone studying overseas, and she still can speak good English.
While playing soccer with the locals, I can feel that they never discriminate us by playing rough and foul play. They treat us like one of them, just a friendly match, a REALLY friendly match. They even advertised their bubble tea shop us, how nice. :) In Singapore, based on my own experience, the people there will usually foul play with us and sometimes exchange of verbal war.
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