Week Nine/Ten.
Coming back from Taiwan my friends and I were completely drained from spending an entire week with each other. It took us about a week to get settled back at NUS and have our individual alone time until we started to hang out again. On a Sunday afternoon we all got together and cooked lunch and had a mini potluck with each other! After we went to Orchard and Cel surprised us by bringing us to the skate park even though none of us knew how to actually skate and showed us around the Orchard Mall Library. It was beautiful, the architecture of the library was unlike any library I've seen before. Around this time Hawaii's Universities were on Spring break and Anna's boy friend and my mentor from the Baptist Collegiate Ministries came to visit Singapore, so I spent the whole week balancing our my final project for my MKT1705X module and spending time with the both of them individually. It felt like as if I was a tourist experiencing Singapore for the first time! We went to Sentosa to go to the beach and explore the attractions they had, we had AYCE Japanese BBQ, I went to the Zoo with my mentor and for good old times when he and I were in Japan for a mission trip we decided to go to an onsen two days in a row! Through out the week my mentor and I often met with our mutual friend Jordan and he introduced us to his friends from church for lunch and dinner. By the end of the week I had received news about the potential cancelation of international flights and closure of borders into the U.S. This frightened me and I had to make a choice to leave NUS and to return back to Hawaii. Unfortunately, I made my decision to leave. It wasn't an easy decision to make, I had to weight out the pros and cons of each decision but at the end of the day it only made sense for me to return home. Before I made time to see off all of my friends I had made during my time in Singapore over a meal. My friend group even stayed up all night to spend time with each other for one last time before I had to leave. It was bitter sweet. I wrapped up everything I had to do, clean out my room, notify my professors and the exchange program, and check out of U-Town Residence. My time here in Singapore is something I will never forget, the memories and time I had spent with my new and close friends is something I will cherish forever. |