This was an enriching an fruitful trip indeed!
Within this 5 weeks, i have gained a deeper understanding on China's culture.
I have also developed some global skills such as patience, comfort level with strangers, respect for other beliefs and also the willingness to take risk!
My reflections on:
Student's dormitory
Almost every student studying at WUST live at the dorm provided by the school. We were also being arranged to live at the dorm in the school. Compared to our own house, the dorm we were staying was really in a bad condition. So, I complaint to my family about it, the building looks so old, the toilet is so dirty, the mattress is so thin until i felt backache after sleeping the first night. However, during my last week of stay in Wuhan, I realised how fortunate we are compared to the local students. According to Chen Ming, they cannot use electrical equipments which exceed 700 watt, that means they can only use less than 700 watt per day. If they exceed the amount of limited electricity, the electricity supply will just stop! Furthermore, the light in the dorm will be switched off automatically after 11.30 pm! I wonder how the students study during the exam period. They do not have air conditioner in their room so it is really cold during winter time! And, the worst thing is they do not have water heater in their toilet! What they use is only a pipe which supply cold water! Comparing to them, our dorm is much more better! We have 24 hours of electricity supply, air conditioner and water heater! After knowing their dorm's conditions, i told myself, why should I complain if what we posses are so much more than them? We should be satisfy with what we have and do not always complaint.
Sacrifice and tolerance
One of the night, after we watched movie at cafe 119( Dr Teoh's room), we took issac's key which he left in our room instead of our room key. So, we were locked outside our room! We tried to unlock the door using cards and also nail clipper! After trying for half an hour, our efforts were in vain! So, Edmund suggested to let us sleep in his room and they share one room with Issac,Justin,Clarence and Bo Kang. However, because of my leg, we decided to stay at Issac's room which is at the first floor! They gave up their bed for us to sleep! We felt so sorry to them as they did not sleep well for the whole night! Through this incident, I can feel the selflessness of my friends, Justin, Issac and Bo Kang. I would like to say thank you to all of you and also sorry for the inconvenience caused!
Lastly, I would like to say thank you to everyone for taking care of me for the past few days! Camellia and Gracia take care of me almost 24 hours per day, Yvette , Qiu yan and Meiling, chose to stay at my dorm to take care of me instead of going to shopping! I also received get well soon gift from some of my friends! A cute totoro from Issac, Azleena, Clarence , Dharshini and Lavanya, a dress from Edmund, three clothes from Gracia and Camellia! :) Thanks everyone of you!
I am loving this PHARMily!Everyone is so cooperative throughout this entire trip! Without you guys, this trip would not be so fun and enjoyable!
I never regretted for signing up this OIP and I am looking forward to more overseas trip!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
I'm Home!
After around 11 hours of flight, we finally reached Singapore!
I would say, 5 weeks past really very fast! I feel like we just reached WUST a few days ago!
In this 5 weeks, I have meet a lot of friends in Wuhan!
Chen Ming, the local student, who always being teased by me because of his pronunciation, brought me a lot of laughter. He is so friendly to bring us around Wuhan to eat, to shop and to walk around.
Christina! also one of the local student we met, never rejected any single request from us! she was willing to help us in anything especially our projects when we had to explore around Wuhan.
Mrs Tang! Calvin's godmother! I have learnt really a lot of things from her. After i injured my right knee, she took care of me just like her own daughter, cook me soup, brought me to hospital with Dr Teoh, and advise me to eat those food which may help me to recover. We also seek her for help to know about the folk remedies in Wuhan and she lent us a book on TCM to help us on our projects:)
Lastly,Back alley! the place where we meet a lot of friends! We became close with them as we always went to the same stalls such as tang bao , sushi ,milk tea and lotus leaf rice! They treat us so friendly and try to make the food less oily and less salty for us!
After 5 weeks, i can really felt the friendliness of the locals! I felt so fortunate to have a chance to know all of them!
The day of leaving
It was 10 am in the morning and it was the time for us to leave WUST :(
Chen Ming, Christina and Mrs Tang followed us to the airport to send us.
The owner of the Lotus leaf rice stall came to send us off before we boarded the bus to airport. She brought her son with her together and he is soooo cute! The atmosphere turned very sad when the lady started to cry because we are leaving :( I felt really down and not bear to leave them, however I have no choice but to board the bus.
I felt so sad when I was hugging Christina and saying good bye to her:'( She promised us she will come singapore to study next year! However, for Chen Ming, I doubt that I am able to see him again.. In 5 weeks time, we became good friends with them and had joy and fun together! I really cherish the friendship between the local students and us,I can feel that they are so true to us. I felt like crying too when both of them were crying on our way to the airport :'(
We gave them some souveniors, letter and our contacts so that they can remember us and contact us!
All my friends in Wuhan, please dont forget me :DDD I will always remember all of you and keep you all as one of the best part of my memories!
I would say, 5 weeks past really very fast! I feel like we just reached WUST a few days ago!
In this 5 weeks, I have meet a lot of friends in Wuhan!
Chen Ming, the local student, who always being teased by me because of his pronunciation, brought me a lot of laughter. He is so friendly to bring us around Wuhan to eat, to shop and to walk around.
Christina! also one of the local student we met, never rejected any single request from us! she was willing to help us in anything especially our projects when we had to explore around Wuhan.
Mrs Tang! Calvin's godmother! I have learnt really a lot of things from her. After i injured my right knee, she took care of me just like her own daughter, cook me soup, brought me to hospital with Dr Teoh, and advise me to eat those food which may help me to recover. We also seek her for help to know about the folk remedies in Wuhan and she lent us a book on TCM to help us on our projects:)
Lastly,Back alley! the place where we meet a lot of friends! We became close with them as we always went to the same stalls such as tang bao , sushi ,milk tea and lotus leaf rice! They treat us so friendly and try to make the food less oily and less salty for us!
After 5 weeks, i can really felt the friendliness of the locals! I felt so fortunate to have a chance to know all of them!
The day of leaving
It was 10 am in the morning and it was the time for us to leave WUST :(
Chen Ming, Christina and Mrs Tang followed us to the airport to send us.
The owner of the Lotus leaf rice stall came to send us off before we boarded the bus to airport. She brought her son with her together and he is soooo cute! The atmosphere turned very sad when the lady started to cry because we are leaving :( I felt really down and not bear to leave them, however I have no choice but to board the bus.
I felt so sad when I was hugging Christina and saying good bye to her:'( She promised us she will come singapore to study next year! However, for Chen Ming, I doubt that I am able to see him again.. In 5 weeks time, we became good friends with them and had joy and fun together! I really cherish the friendship between the local students and us,I can feel that they are so true to us. I felt like crying too when both of them were crying on our way to the airport :'(
We gave them some souveniors, letter and our contacts so that they can remember us and contact us!
All my friends in Wuhan, please dont forget me :DDD I will always remember all of you and keep you all as one of the best part of my memories!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Painful April Fool :'(
It was 1st April 2011.
However, it was not fun at all.
This is not a joke, I fell down while i was laughing and dislocated my knee the night before April fool :(
The next day, the swelling did not subside but worsen, so Dr Teoh, Mrs Tang( local teacher ) and Camellia accompanied me to go to the hospital nearby to do a check up.
At that time, I couldn't even walk so Dr Teoh had to carried me when i went into the cab and came out from the cab. (Sorry Dr Teoh! I gained 2 kg after coming to China :o)
The local teacher arranged me to a hospital however the doctors there are not experienced enough so we went to another better hospital to do check up! (Thanks Mrs Tang!)
After reaching the hospital, we waited for 20 mins before our turn to meet the doctor. The TV programme playing was Mr Bean and this made me laugh and relaxed a little bit before i can see the doctor.
After the diagnosis, the doctor said that i tore my ligament :( As what we learnt from APS module,tear of ligament is very hard to recover as there is no blood vessel run through it. Therefore, nutrients are hardly to diffused through blood. I told the doctor this is my second time experienced dislocation on my right knee so he think I was born with less ligament on my right knee that is why my knee dislocate easily. And continuously he said , I NEED TO DO CORRECTIVE SURGERY after going back to singapore.
I was shocked and stunned at that moment as I never ever did any surgery before. My tears rolling around my eyes but I controlled it as my "geh kiang"(pretend to be strong) character did not allow me to.
I was advised to do X ray to know whether there was any fracture on my bones.
This is the X ray room!
While waiting!
After that..
However, my conditions did not improve so i went to hospital again on 3rd April :((
And.. my blood!!
My experiences and observations
The local public hospital is very different from Singapore's public hospital. Firstly, we must pay first before we can actually do the treatment. Like my case, before I can actually meet the doctor, I must pay for the fee first, this goes the same way as doing X ray.
Another thing is some patients' bed are along the corridor! Just imagine that, you can have no privacy and what you are doing can be seen by anyone walk by the corridor. Compare to China, Singapore's public hospitals are much more well-equipped so we are really very fortunate for being provided all the well-structured necessities! I learnt to be more contented after knowing their hospital's conditions.
I hope that my leg can recover soonnnnnnnnnn!! I want to walk and play around and SHOPPING!!!
Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone!
Dr Teoh is really a very caring and responsible lecturer:))
Mrs Tang the local teacher even made white fungus soup for me to drink as it has lots of collagen :D THANK YOU!
Lastly, my friends! Camellia, Gracia , Yvette , Meiling , Qiu yan and many more!
Sorry for bringing lots of troubles to all of you! I will recover very soon :)) Jiayou She Hui!!
However, it was not fun at all.
This is not a joke, I fell down while i was laughing and dislocated my knee the night before April fool :(
The next day, the swelling did not subside but worsen, so Dr Teoh, Mrs Tang( local teacher ) and Camellia accompanied me to go to the hospital nearby to do a check up.
At that time, I couldn't even walk so Dr Teoh had to carried me when i went into the cab and came out from the cab. (Sorry Dr Teoh! I gained 2 kg after coming to China :o)
The local teacher arranged me to a hospital however the doctors there are not experienced enough so we went to another better hospital to do check up! (Thanks Mrs Tang!)
After reaching the hospital, we waited for 20 mins before our turn to meet the doctor. The TV programme playing was Mr Bean and this made me laugh and relaxed a little bit before i can see the doctor.
After the diagnosis, the doctor said that i tore my ligament :( As what we learnt from APS module,tear of ligament is very hard to recover as there is no blood vessel run through it. Therefore, nutrients are hardly to diffused through blood. I told the doctor this is my second time experienced dislocation on my right knee so he think I was born with less ligament on my right knee that is why my knee dislocate easily. And continuously he said , I NEED TO DO CORRECTIVE SURGERY after going back to singapore.
I was shocked and stunned at that moment as I never ever did any surgery before. My tears rolling around my eyes but I controlled it as my "geh kiang"(pretend to be strong) character did not allow me to.
I was advised to do X ray to know whether there was any fracture on my bones.
This is the X ray room!
While waiting!
After that..
However, my conditions did not improve so i went to hospital again on 3rd April :((
And.. my blood!!
My experiences and observations
The local public hospital is very different from Singapore's public hospital. Firstly, we must pay first before we can actually do the treatment. Like my case, before I can actually meet the doctor, I must pay for the fee first, this goes the same way as doing X ray.
Another thing is some patients' bed are along the corridor! Just imagine that, you can have no privacy and what you are doing can be seen by anyone walk by the corridor. Compare to China, Singapore's public hospitals are much more well-equipped so we are really very fortunate for being provided all the well-structured necessities! I learnt to be more contented after knowing their hospital's conditions.
I hope that my leg can recover soonnnnnnnnnn!! I want to walk and play around and SHOPPING!!!
Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone!
Dr Teoh is really a very caring and responsible lecturer:))
Mrs Tang the local teacher even made white fungus soup for me to drink as it has lots of collagen :D THANK YOU!
Lastly, my friends! Camellia, Gracia , Yvette , Meiling , Qiu yan and many more!
Sorry for bringing lots of troubles to all of you! I will recover very soon :)) Jiayou She Hui!!
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