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Day 1 : Departure At Changi Airport

The day has finally arrived. The flight

departure time was 1705hrs but we wereinstructed to report at the airport by 1430

hrs. Some of the students came veryearly with their parents to the airport.

Some parents looked worried as theywondered whether we would be able to

“manage” on our own for 10 days overseas.

Fortunately, Mr Lau and Mdm Huang werethere to assure them that we were in good

hands and this would be good learningopportunity for us to be independent.

This is Mr Lau’s youngest son. He was

there too to send off his father for theNanjing trip.

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 Group leaders play an

important role in ensuring

that this Nanjing trip isexecuted smoothly

accordingly to plan.This group leader was callingup the late comers who have

yet to report to the airport by

the stipulated time.

Proud parents snapping photographs of their sons or

daughters.

We were posing for a group photograph before entering the departure hall.

The 3 girl students in the front row were holding the gifts to bepresented to Hong Yuan Middle School.

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This was China Eastern Airline

plane which we would be flying

to Nanjing. It looked quite smallas compared to SIA plane which

was parked next to it (see below).

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Arrival : Nanjing JiaYi Hotel

After 5 hours of flight, we finally landed at Nanjing International airport at 2215 hrs. The

flight took half an hour longer than scheduled due to the head wind. The school VP, anAdmin staff and a tour guide were at the airport to welcome us. Upon stepping out of the

airport, the first impression that struck us was the cool breeze and nice weather. Thetemperature was comfortable 18-19 degrees Celsius. After loading up our luggage, wewere transported in a bus to JiaYi Hotel.

This hotel would be our “home” for the next

10 days.

Time for a quick group photo at the

hotel front desk before retiring to our

assigned room.

We were paired “two to a room.”

The room was cosy and

comfortable and the

bathroom was dry and clean.

For some reasons, one of the girl

pairs refused to sleep in theirassigned room which was facing

the stairway. In the end, Mr Lauhas no choice but to switch roomwith them.

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One of our students, Nicky’s roomtoilet was found to be choked. Mr

Lau asked him to practise his“mandarin” by talking to the frontdesk to get maintenance personnel to

fix the blockage. The maintenance

personnel arrived after a while and

the choke was cleared fairly quickly.We are now more confident in

ourselves in communicating in

mandarin. Ha ha ha!