The Outstanding Weather Forecast 

This morning, we arrived at Juanda International Airport at 5:30. After that, we all got our own passports which were shared by our teacher. We then proceeded to the check-in counter to check in our baggage. After we were done, we moved to the immigration area. Once we finished the immigration process, we waited for our flight at the gate. At 6:40, we were called for boarding the plane that would take us to Singapore. After a flight of around 2 hours, we finally arrived in Singapore. Upon arrival, we disembarked and had time for a toilet break. After we were all done, we proceeded to the immigration area. Once we finished the process at both the automatic immigration gate and the manual gate, we claimed our baggage and moved to the arrival area.

After arriving at the airport, we went to a restaurant called Qian Xi for lunch. The menu featured a variety of dishes, including seaweed soup, shrimp, black pepper chicken, soy sauce chicken, and tofu. Additionally, we enjoyed a refreshing Chinese iced tea drink. After we finished our lunch. We then got into the bus again and had a city tour with our tour guide. On the bus ride she told us about the history of Singapore. The things that were prominent was that Singapore was before named Singapura when it hadn’t been colonised by the british. Because of the British ruling, the name changed to better fit the western tongue. Another information that stood out from the story our tour guide gave was that Sir Stamford Raffles was the father of modern Singapore and that he had held great importance in the building of Singapore.

We got off the bus and we started the city tour. When we’re out of the bus the first thing we noticed was the weather. We were told before that it was going to rain and we even had to prepare our raincoats while we were at the airport. To our surprise, it was incredibly hot and sunny. Wonderful for the pictures, not so much for our skin. We were all burnt under the burning hot sun. What made it worse was that most of us didn’t put on sunscreen before. So we may be getting a bit of a tan by the end of this trip.

The tour guide lead us to many buildings and sites. The first few was the city hall, victoria theater and concert hall, the arts house at the old parliament, Asian civilians museum and big tall skycrapers, many of them in fact. Explainations of each building were given while we pass them and took many, many pictures of them. An interesting part was this park that had big reflective balls. Many people were laying atound the park and taking pictures near the the mirrored spheres.

After the brief sight seeing and picture taking, we were then lead to the singapore river. We took more pictures there too. Then finally, we arrive at the Merlion statue. We took more pictures there, a whole lot, too many pictures I think. We then got back to the bus and head to Chinatown.

Getting off the bus, we started our walk to chinatown. In Chiantown we all seperated to our own groups and start exploring the place together. Us four and Miss Harianti first went up a building to look at food. A funny thing that happened was that, when we tried to find the exit, we accidentally went to a place where people cut fish, the smell kinda shocked us.

The rest of our time there was spent shopping for our friends and family, we bought keychains and Merlion shaped chocolates. We all thought that they were really overpriced though.

We were all exhausted and tired, and good timing. It was our dinner time and we had Vietnamese food for our dinner. The tom yum soup was extremely delicious and we had a great time there. After getting our belly full we moved back to our hotel. After waiting for a while the teacher finally assigned our rooms and we went to our room to take a shower and wrote our report.

It was an extremely fun and exhausting day but we were all happy and had a great time, we can’t wait to see how our first day at school will be tomorrow.