1. Arrive in new country - check, 2. arrive in new city - check, 3. find hostel - check, 4. find ATM -check, 5. check-in -check, 6. EAT
Our kind of street
Tioman represents
Only thing to do in S'pore... SHOP. Malls EVERYWHERE.
Met our friend from elementary school and junior high, and he was kind enough to give us a tour of the city!
...he also showed us new places to eat, which we of course appreciate a lot.
Matias teaching us about Slurpees... now Ruut can't live without them.
Later we ran into Azlan and Colin, two guys we'd met a couple days earlier on Tioman, and they showed us Singapore nightlife...
....which isn't much when it's a Sunday night, but we had a great view of Singapore from Mt. Faber.
The street we lived on in Little India. We felt very much at home there, since Little India isn't that different from the rest of Asia (and especially not different from all the other 'Little Indias' in other Asian cities...) while the rest of Singapore was... big, clean and Western.
Sophia packing her rinkka... for the last time.
"Don't ever let anyone leave with your rinkka..."
Last picture of the three of us, we weren't actually smiling...
The last we saw of Sophia before she boarded her plane to Bangkok.
Colin and Azlan came to wave Sophia goodbye, and drove me and Ruut home, while trying to do anything to cheer us up, before returning to camp.
They didn't manage to cheer us up, but at least we learned a lot of interesting(shocking) things about Singaporean (Asian) culture, for example violence seems to be/have been(we hope!) a crucial part of raising your children...
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