Day 11: Birthdays & Lessons

Day number 11, 11th September 2009. Its Ming Yu's birthday today! HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY DUDE!

The birthday boy!

All of us stayed up till midnight to give him a surprise. We had our plans to celebrate his birthday later that evening so nothing much really happened. All of us came to the room, sang birthday song and presented him with our own created "birthday cake". Both english and chinese versions of birthday song was sang. We had some fun and laughters over there and soon it was time to get some photos taken and back to our rooms to complete our assignments or rest for the day.

As we have to wake up very early, most of us tried to complete our assignments fast so that we can rest early. Woke up at around 7 in the morning, prepared, packed our stuffs and off we go for our lessons! Today, we had our first IS module lesson which we were introduced to the customs, food and history of Hubei and Wuhan. The lesson was rather interesting and we had our lessons till around 12 noon before we head back to our rooms to put down our stuffs and headed out for our lunch.

Our IS Lesson

One of the Slides

After lunch, all of us stayed in the room to complete Exercise 2 for Flexsim as we were all tired and Mr. Joseph Loh is kind enough for us to rest in our rooms and he will come to our hostel to see if we needed any help. Thanks Mr. Loh!

We did the assignment and rested in the room till around 5pm in the evening before all of us headed out to the tracks or the stadium in the campus, which was meant for a surprise for our birthday boy, Ming Yu! We celebrated Shun Qing's birthday early as well. So it was a surprise for both of them today! Some of the guys brought in the cakes, sing birthday song again and we did the usual stuff which was done on a birthday! And our trip leader, Mr. Loh joined us for the celebrations today! :D

The birthday boy and birthday girl

Group celebrations - Singing birthday song!

After celebrating, all of us headed back to our rooms to wash up and had our dinner and here we are blogging! Tomorrow will be out for city tour. Have to wake up very early in the morning and will only be back in the evening. So till then, enjoy! :D

Alrights! That’s all for today!

My Reflections:

Based on today, i realised that it is very important for all of us to forge strong friendship bonds among one another and our friends. this is essential when we are out alone, with only our friends as our companions and our family away. It is this group of people who we usually depend on for help, for assistance as well for any other things such as fun and entertainment. It is this group of people whom we can trust and depend upon if we needed an listening ear or any form of help.

"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus