First weekend & first day of work

Yesterday, the ILAP group met up at Orchard Road to walk around and see some of the sights and malls. We then headed down to Clark Quay to walk around and found a great place there to eat dinner right on the water. If you look through some of the pictures (sorry they're out of order - I'm new to photobucket and couldn't figure out how to move the pictures around and that's how they uploaded), you'll see a very interesting one taken near a restaurant/bar in Clark Quay. Also, Singapore is easily the most diverse place I've ever seen or been to - most of the signs are written in 4 languages - English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, because of the incredibly diverse population. Some other things that are taking some getting used to are: they drive on the left side of the road (I'm constantly looking the wrong way before crossing...I'm getting better though!), they hang most of their clothes to dry (hardly anyone has clothes dryers - I guess it saves on electricity and avoids releasing more heat as well), the 13 hour time difference, and the MRT train system. I rode it to work this morning and it was packed crowded. As for my internship, I met with my professor today that I'm working with and he showed me around Singapore Polytechnic Institute and introduced me to some of the people there. They're all really nice and we even go to lunch as a group with some of the student workers and interns for the summer. Other than that, I've put pictures up of the area around where I'm staying and some pictures from the apartment as well. Enjoy!