School Life

So it's been about 4 weeks since I've started school and I must say that i'm ridiculously behind which is starting to worry me just a tad bit......It's ridiculous how the local students are so immensely focused on the school work, and literally seem to do nothing but eat, study, and play whatever sports they're involved in. Even back at home, I always thought most Americans including myself had pretty bad study habits compared to people from Asia seeing how even at the beginning of the school year they would basically be the ones hitting the library already, I guess being here just reaffirmed me of that. I really need to fix my study habits, oh and another thing I noticed was how much school pride they have, that it can get quite ridiculous. I mean not just for NUS (national university of singapore) as a whole, but even for whatever departments they're in, such as with FASS (faculty of arts and social sciences) I mean they have their own intermurals I guess you can say within each department, and almost everyone seems to be heavily involved in that. They definitely take school pride to another level here.. haha....

Oh, another thing I noticed is that Singapore is definitely not a country made for walking, and the locals are quite lazy, no offense. Everytime you ask for directions, they just tell you the directions to the nearest MRT or bus station. When you ask for the walking directions, most of the time they wouldn't know the walking direction. Also, even the roads and stairs everywhere, it's ridiculous how small the streets are sometimes, and  even taking the stairs at school, it's designed so inconveniently, going zig zag when it can just go straight up that they make taking the elevator the preferred choice. It's quite shocking how skinny and fit everyone is here still.

I thought it was quite funny, how for half of my classes, I have American Professors, it's not like I came to Singapore to be taught by Singaporean professors anyway -_-.... They really love having American or even foreign professors here, I guess this would be a good place for a job if you ever look into education since they just love hiring foreign professors haha.....

Definitely, I think i'm starting to miss the food back at home, or even the convenience of cooking, since for SOME REASON, my place doesn't believe in having a stove, and all there is in the kitchen is a friggin microwave and fridge only... Apparently it's a fire hazard or something, and there is not a single stove to be found here.....Feels like they're trying to force us to always eat out or something.....which I don't mind, but sometimes you miss a home cooked meal or two...

Since this is getting pretty long I think i'll just leave it at this, oh and it's been a pretty bland couple weeks cause of school and all so I don't really have much pictures to update haha....
but definitely this month is gonna be good, trips to both Kuala Lumpur, and Thailand haha...not like I came here for school anyway -_-