I was already awake 6plus in the morning to prepare myself, checking the luggage before we leave the place. After which I went to the back street(Duo Luo Jie) to buy their food for the last time. I will definitely miss those foods when I’m back in Singapore! We gathered at around 7.45am before we took the bus to the airport. The local students were there to send us off as well despite knowing that they will miss part of their lesson. I’m very touch by their actions and I will absolutely miss those amazing friends that I make here in Wuhan. Luckily, there is a thing call Windows Live messenger and QQ for us to keep in touch with them:D Our flight is delayed till 1pm as our original flight is being cancelled. At the airport, all of us keep weighing our luggage to ensure that they are not overweight. After we were done with checking in our luggage, we were given free time till the boarding time of the plane. I went to eat the noodles from the only food store I can find. However, our boarding time was delayed, which cause the flight to be delay as well. All of us know that we will need to rush in order to get to the next flight on time when we reach Guang Zhou. When we reach there, the situation was chaotic. As we arrived at the boarding time of the next flight! Thus, the flight to Singapore have to be delay as a result as quite a lot of the passenger on the flight from Wuhan are also for the next flight. We rushed to take our luggage and then for it to checked in to the next plane. I was the first to reach the boarding area of the plane and that give me time to take a rest as I was perspiring a lot due to the rush. I saw a lot of unhappy faces over there though as I’m sure all of them are unhappy that their flight was delayed. Luckily, all of us were able to board the plane. We reached Singapore at 10.07pm!
My Reflection
After arriving back to my homeland Singapore which I was absent for the past forty-two days, I truly miss Wuhan environment and my hostel room as well as the times where all those Wuhan students frequently brought us to shopping spree in some of the well-known shopping streets and malls. I miss those days where I was able to taste those Wuhan local delicacies as well as exotic food that are uncommon in Singapore. All in all, I earned back a lot of valuable knowledge which are applicable to my future for example serving as an icebreaker and opening line when communicating with new China people. I am proud to say that I have the ability to speak proper Mandarin as this Wuhan trip indeed brushed up my dusty Chinese language because China is a country where almost all population are filled with native-Chinese speakers. I will definitely recommend this overseas immersion trip to all the eligible students for next semester as this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to understand more about an emerging large country like China and the wonderful experience that I brought back with me to Singapore could never be learnt from textbooks nor classroom. I had zero regrets about going for this trip as the cross cultural exchange benefited me in many ways that one could not obtain by simply through online research.
