We were warmly greeted by the local students at the new WUST campus! They were all waiting at the entrance with smiles don on their faces, clapping as we got down the bus. The best part was that they changed their signboard to “We warmly welcome the students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic “
The new campus looks way better than the campus that we’re currently living in! Even though I do envy that they get to live in such a great environment, I’m happy with where I’m living now because it is more centralized and at everyone one time you’ll see people walking around. However in the new campus there, besides us walking about, there was close to no one walking about, it’s not that I want to see people, it’s just that it gives me a feel that it’s civilization and that if I’m in trouble, I can still get help!
In the library, a mini museum of the school
Outside the library
We were each assigned to a “buddy”, they were suppose to tell us more about the school and whatever we want to know more about the school or anything about China, they were really nice but I found them too nice, way too open, like they wanted to hold hands while we walked, but it made me really uncomfortable because I don’t really know them and it’s my first time meeting them! So there is the sense of awkwardness and distance.
A short performance by the China student from WUST, and a tiny performance by us too, it was rather impromptu but we manage to pull it through so YAY!
They brought us to their canteens! A escalator in a canteen is something pretty impressive! It has 3 floors and each floor sells different kind of food, something that is lacking here in the old campus. We then went to their hostels, and I must say its way better than the hostels that the locals students are staying here in the old campus, it is more spacious and only 4 people sleep in each room as compared to 6 here! They are also given each a desk under their beds which is 2 times bigger than the ones here.
After that we had some ball games with them, before visiting the medical school! According to the professor all the specimen are real and are there for almost 30 years! (they have been persevered of course). Some of the specimen that I noticed were pretty cool, like those foetus of deformed the child to tortoise to lizards. After that we were sent back to our hostels and I stayed behind to finish blogging while MeiXiu and all went to “Lao Shu Jie” to shop!
Group photo with our buddies
Reflection:
I felt really overwhelmed as they welcomed us into their school; from what I learnt during IS, it is part of the culture here in China! They tend to be very friendly to their guest and give them their undivided attention; everything has to planned and attended for! Not that I don’t like, but I felt that what they did was too much for me and they should try to tone down, but then again everyone has his own practices, Singapore may not go to the extend to go to the car porch and wait for your arrival, but we would probably have a reception with some finger food so and mingle with them.
