Monday, December 31, 2007

New Year's Eve Post About the Day Before Yesterday

This is a statue I saw on the way to the mall, in the city. I do not know what the statue is meant to commemorate, but I like the look of it, a remnant of colonial past in the middle of the dirt road.

This is Nuria at the wedding.

This is the happy couple whose marriage we got to see.

A colourful walkway to the open field.

We were like paparazzo stalking everything. Here the other 3 members of the celeb team take photos of the 3-man band playing music for the wedding.

In the afternoon of the 2nd day, when we were walking around campus getting to know the professors and about their modules.

I am not optimistic about the programme because it seems very disjointed at the moment and very confused about what we as exchange students are supposed to take from it. The funniest thing is that we're undergraduate students and this is a post-grad school.

Most of the available subjects seem to require prerequisites in econs, marketing or business management. And here we are, pure communications majors, with little footing in the world of business practice and economics.


More or less what we have everyday.

We get corn flakes every morning. The plain ones. And we can ask for any type of egg we can think of. And also bread. With jam, butter or anything else.

Leigh and I have come to a pact to have butter sugar toast every morning. She created it here. It's our very own Yakun. And we get tea as well. Hot milk is dispensed next to that. You add coffee powder to the hot milk.

Have I mentioned that our toilets have no flushes? Yeap. They work on the same principle as our showers. Pail and scoop. And tap of course. Someone's been forgetting to flush away the tissue paper though. Maybe I'll get lazy to do that and leave it there too. Unless the Silveroak hostel has a flush system.

3 comments:

Ummu Durrah said...

well despite all that glad to know you arrived safely :)

Elix Arkan said...

I'm glad too. Who's this by the way?

Gerry said...

You young urns. Toast with butter and sugar is not a new invention. It existed even before Ya Kun. And this is your aunty - so I know best!