Everyone was so excited to meet each other. We (students from the Diploma in Financial Business Informatics and Diploma in Mobile Network Services) were all anticipating and waiting for their arrival in the lecture theatre. And finally we got to meet each other!
After settling down in the lecture theatre, the Japanese students prepared performances for us! They performed “Kendo”
Calligraphy~ where the MNS students were given a chance to write their names on calligraphy paper.
Origami~
The Japanese students were not only talented but they were also willing to share they taught us how to fold cranes, with lots of love \(^O^)/
We played ice-breaking games to get to know each other. Although there was language barrier between us, we managed to explain to them how each and every game was to be played!
With this . . We enjoyed ourselves while playing!!
The laughter we had whenever someone had to do a forfeit!
Punishment for ice-breaking games??
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hahahahahah!! =x
When everyone started to get comfortable with each other, we showed them what we are studying in TP!
The MNS students showed them the TP-IBM IT Service Management Centre.
The FBI students showed them the TP-Thomson Reuters Lab and showed them how we could search for stock prices instantaneously! They were amazed at how we go about learning on our courses.
And last of all, on the first day of our meeting.. we ended with a Group photo at the Koi pond~~
By then, we had already made friends with them and were already talking about our interests and things we like in common. We could talk about many things from sports to music which I find it most fun because we really have many things in common.
It was really an enjoyable day!
All of us had lots of fun . . Everyone was looking forward to the second day, whereby TP students brought the Japanese students out for a city tour!
We were to fetch them from their hotel, Bayview Hotel, at nine in the morning the very next day. We were on time but the weather took a turn for the worst. There was a heavy downpour when we reached there. There was no direct shelter from the MRT station to the hotel. Therefore, we sent representatives from our group to fetch our own groups as we did not have enough umbrellas.
This may seem like a bad sign but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. We bonded more by having to share umbrellas together. Our first destination for most groups was the; Singapore Flyer.
Not all groups went to the Flyer, because we had other things in mind. Some of us visited the Marina Bay F1 Circuit, and even Ice Skating!
We mostly roamed around the central business district area (CBD) or we call it town as it has a combination of Singapore style in which there is high rising buildings and also a taste of the olden days like shop houses. We were able to show the Japanese students how we lived in the past and today.
In my group, we had a Japanese student (Mossan) who is a baseball starting pitcher. Well, in Singapore, people don’t play baseball but I do watch Major League Baseball often and I told Mossan, the pitcher to pose his routine throw posture when we were at the Flyer. (See photo below) You seldom see this kind of thing yeah?
Mossan ‘delivering his pitch’ in the flyer. He has got some moves!
G max Bungee at Clarke Quay!!
F1 Marina Bay Circuit!!
Not only that but we also brought them to enjoy our local delicious food!!
A few groups brought them to the food court at Marina Square, the Gallerie. There, we brought the Japanese students around to let them choose what they wanted to eat. They really did satisfy their hunger, didn’t they?
Singapore is a racially harmonious country and we told them to try out the different foods. We had Chinese, Malay and Indian food! We let them enjoy our local desert Ice Kachang.
Everyone of us had loads and loads of fun eating!!!
After lunch, most of us went shopping, well most of us. Some groups brought them to Bugis to see the life of street shopping. Singaporeans love Bugis Street. Some of us brought them to The Central for shopping.
On the other hand, some groups went to the Toy Museum. It was good to remind ourselves that we’re still young and although we live in different countries, we still enjoy doing the same things and live in the same world.
This is an experience that we will never forget! It was so enjoyable and exciting as we made new friends and bonded more with our existing friends. It allowed us to learn more about the Japanese culture and the Japanese students to know more about Singapore and the Singaporean lifestyle. All of us enjoyed the two-days bonding together and we are all looking forward to meeting them again in the near future.
Till then, sayonara!
Posted by Shermaine, Jun Jie and Lutfi
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