Report 1.9: Fun before classes

So classes start tomorrow and I am not sure yet on my schedule. It will be interesting to see which classes I get into, but that will be a different report. For now, I was just worried about getting a little more fun in before they started. So today I played a little soccer. Most people Ive talked to call it soccer, some do call it football. But regardless, it was very fun. One thing I learned today was that the Singaporean weahter is much different than ours. Because it is so warm and humid, I grew tired and sweaty very fast. However I didnt do too bad for not playing soccer in so long. Some of the exchange students from eurpoe were very good, as well as a few Singaporean players we joined. The great thing about playing sports is that they are the same in any language. My fun for yesterday was traveling around Singapore for the cultural tour put on by the International Student Center. We went all over the city to four differnt stops. At the first stop, we learned about a group of people called the Paranakan. They are chinese/mayasian singaporeans. Like french canadian, only not french. Or canadian... you know what I mean. Anyway it was neat eating some of their food. I even learned how to make a dumpling. And by learned I mean I did what the guy making them was doing and have him correct me and stuff. While there I sat by two Germans and four Iranians. They were all grad students getting their masters or PHD. I did not feel very smart. We went to Arab street where there is lots of carpet stores. Then to Little India where I got a slurpie at the 7 Eleven and saw a cow. And the last stop was china town. There was lots of good food in china town. Julio, Sasche, and I found a plaque that talked of the streets of the dead (In older times people would go to die there cause bad luck was put on whatever house you died in). The last word on the engraved plaque was place, spelled palce, crossed out with a permanent marker with the correct spelling underneath. We found this funny and took a picture. Well, Sasche and Julio did, I forgot my camera. But I will get some to show you all. That night we went to the staff lounge and sang Caryoke in the room they have set up for it. That was a blast and many funny videos are now on Sasche's camera. We are going to go to some bars that do caryoke later on and really spice it up then. Tomorrow I go back into the city to get my student pass. This will take almost all day and is very annoying. I will not forget any papers this time.