We went for UESTC’s opening ceremony for international students. I admit it was hard to stay awake with all those speeches. I have indeed learnt a lot from the speakers, especially, NII, a year2 international student. His mandarin was even better than some of us, though he was an Arabian.
Aftermath, we headed back to UESTC new campus and had our lunch at the same canteen. A local student helper recommended some of the nicer dishes to us. He also told us more about the marching soldiers we saw yesterday. We learnt that it was a 10-day army training for year 1s. All the fresh year1s in UESTC must go through this training by do drills at times of the day and wear the army uniform for the whole day. When we’ve decided to leave, almost all the doors were closed, and we could not find the way out. It was my first time not being able to get out of a school’s canteen. After climbing flights after flights of stairs to find the exit that will lead us out, we’re still unable to get out. Upon panicking, we asked around for help. Luckily, there was a worker there who led us to the correct exit.
The local helper, Shen Qi, had to rush for class. Hence, we went our separate ways .We then went to get our phone cards to call back to our family and friends. After all that it was free and easy. Most of us went to rent bikes to move around the campus easier as it is very big. Rode the bicycle back to our hostel and off we went for dinner. We had dinner with some of the other NP students and Ms Megan and Mdm Tan. We had ordered quite a lot and couldn’t finish. Their food served came in very big portions. After our dinner we rode our bikes around the campus and we’re back in the hostel to write our journal.
Today, I would like to talk about the canteen in China. Their canteen is really different from the ones back in Singapore. Their canteens here in China close whenever it isn’t lunch/dinner time. Even all the doors are locked. This is contrary to the canteen we have in Singapore as they are more of an open concept and they do not close when it is not recess time so as to enable teacher and other staff in the school to buy food whenever they feel like it. Hence I feel that Singaporeans might not be used to this kind of canteens.
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