I started classes this past week and it was pretty good. I'm in a mix of business classes which don't seem as awful as I first imagined when I heard that all of the actual students at NUS spend all of their free time studying and doing work. UConn is the only school that I've heard of that sends their exchange students here and counts their grades, all of the other students that I have met only have to take their classes Pass/Fail, which is a little annoying. So 35 minutes away from when I'm supposed to leave.
There really isn't too much to update on about this past week because we were mostly figuring out classes (I still am --- I have been going through an appeal process to try to switch one of my classes).
I don't know what to expect of Bintan, we've all just received our student passes which means we are free to leave Singapore and travel around...we're all anxious to get off the island and see what else is going on. So anyways sorry this is a weak entry, I figured I'd make contact before I left, expect a better entry when I return. Although not on Monday, because I currently have 7 hours of class on Mondays in a row (without time to walk from class to class in between).
I'll leave you with a picture from Wednesday night (the big night to go out here, probably because Wednesday nights are "Ladies Nights", which means women don't have to pay cover or for the expensive drinks). A majority of the exchange students went to a club which had an awesome band that was doing covers of recognizable songs (including a slow version of the song Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionare, that was probably the highlight). Ignore the fact that I look disgusting, it was so hot because there were so many people.
Haha, this is really a terrible picture but I don't have any others from this week (I'll do better in Bintan, I swear...)
Talk to you all later
Posts
So how was Bintan? So now you can say you have been to Indonesia!!
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was there on one of the golf courses, there were signs to watch out for monkeys. They would come on the course and steal your golf balls before you could get to it. Also, there were large land iguanas roaming the edges of the golf course.