15 March 2012

Today we have no lessons, in the morning at about 8am we took a bus and left the school campus to visit the Volkswagen car factory. It is about a 2 hour journey to get there and the bus ride was horrible, all of us were bouncing up and down inside the bus and find it hard to sleep in there. When we got there, we toured around by a tour guide to show us how the car is made. At the factory, only two models are made, they are Jetta and Golf. I saw various processes, the machine press the sheet metal in to body panels and they weld the chassis together and assembly. We walked around the factory but the guide talked in Chinese so most of us got bored even me. Secondly, we arrived to the school’s branch out campus where the students there do practical work like milling, turning and machining. It is a small campus where only about 200 students are there to do practical work. Next, we went out for lunch with a few China students and its Mr. Lim’s treat, we went to a fancy restaurant nearby and he treated us to a 20 course meal. The food was great and delicious, there was like fish, lots of beef and importantly lots of chili. Once lunch is over we head to a nearby old town where there are a lot of eateries like roaches and candy. We fetched the China students back and went straight back to the main school campus.

We reached home at about 5pm and met our China friends for dinner at a nearby town not far from school. At around 6.20 pm we attend their English Corner lesson where we get to meet and greet the local China students. Their English was not that good but still acceptable, just that we have to speak to them slowly. Lesson ended in 2 hours and our new friends and us practice dancing together until 9pm at night and ended with a game of pool till 9.30pm to call it a day.