Last Day in Singapore

This may or may not be my last post for a long time.  I am leaving Singapore in 6 hours (9 until flight time) to fly to Beijing, and as we all know, blogging is a little against the rules in China.  I won’t know until I get there if this can be accessed at all, but I will work something out.

Flying to Singapore means that this study abroad is officially halfway over.  We took two classes here in Singapore and have two remaining at Tsinghua University in Beijing.  We have been in Singapore for about 5.5 weeks and have the same amount of time in Beijing.  We have done so much here in Singapore that I can honestly say I have seen and done everything that I wanted to during this leg of the trip, and as you have seen from my postings, it has been amazing.

We have had a lot of free time during this past week, which was amazing because it was our last week in Singapore.  We had our 3039 (Quality Control) final on Tuesday morning at 7.50am and went straight to the UPS Customs facility afterward for a talk about the logistics involved in controlling the flow of packages throughout Asia.  We had another field trip the next day to the Asia Pacific Brewery (which brews Tiger Beer and Heineken, among others) followed by lunch at the revolving restaurant overlooking the Port of Singapore.  After eating we had a brief talk about the logistics involved in running the port.

As those were our only classroom requirements, we also have had a lot of free time this week to enjoy Singapore.  Almost the entire GT crew hung out together on Tuesday evening after the exam and then went out to bars in Holland Village (an area of Singapore I hadn’t seen before).  Last night we all went out to Zouk, a sort of super-club that has three clubs in one.  We had a blast celebrating our last hurrah in Singapore.  Today Marianna, Kristen, and I went out to Banana Leaf Apolo (the Indian restaurant we like so much) one last time before heading over to Orchard Road to take advantage of the Great Singapore Sale for the last day.  It was a very chill, very relaxed, very perfect last day in Singapore.