DAY45 Tuesday 2nd of June 2009

After so many days of intensive work on project over day and night and day and even saw how early Dalian’s sunrise will appear, we finally had some air to breathe. Today is critique/presentation day. We had Thierry as our guest critique and Jonathan, our lecturer, grader for this project. We had a very long and busy day however; we head on to the School of Fashion in DPU for a cultural night performance for international students who came to DPU for exchange programs. They put up a great performance for us and fellow people from CLS and DXPD put up a dance and song too. Kudos to them. It was a pity we could not perform due to the heavy load of our project work. But, however, I guess we did enjoy the evening and will head on to party after Wednesday as all submission will be over.[Something I realize during the whole performance. The helpers were so quick and efficient during the whole performance like how efficient they move things up and down stage and how smooth the music and performances flow. I think it really relates to their lifestyle here. Even to how fast one must order food once they step into the restaurant. A good point to take back
home.]
And whoo! We can shout out ‘Beijing! Here we come! ‘ =D I think it will be really cool and fun to get the chance to go to Beijing and go to all the famous site attractions. Whoo!!! And shopping! =X Was it fast or was it slow? We actually spent almost 2 months here in Dalian. Will I miss this place? Guess some factors I will
say yes. Like the weather here, the daily view of planes taking off and landing. Some food and drinks here I will miss. WaHaHa Hello C-lemon drink, walnut muffin-dalian version,手抓饼, some of the dishes here were not bad-can’t name all of them out, the glass bottle soft drink, the sceneries here, a lot, a lot a lot. Oh my…I will miss here…..but home is still the best =D Home Home Home, here we come…..=)
But I truly feel that having the chance to come to a foreign country, living on your own and getting to understand other country’s culture and lifestyle is truly truly a very meaningful and great experience that I will not even get to experience with the media or books. It is the self experience and daily ponders that makes us more mature and to learn to live on a foreign land and blending in to their lifestyle and culture is a great deal for us. =D
Had to give thanks to people from Dalian Polytechnic University for their warm hospitality throughout this whole trip! Kudos to You Guys! Hope that the school will continue to strive in all areas and be the best in Dalian.
Lastly, hope that everyone from DID enjoyed the long stay here in Dalian and had learnt a lot from this trip and take back great experiences to Singapore and mark this trip a meaningful one.
=D Jamie Signing Off =) A Good trip @ Dalian, Liaoning Province