So I've had a great last couple of days. Friday, a few of the girls went out to see the new Harry Potter - tickets were sold out all over town so luckily we got them early! Before the show we took a walk over to Arab Street & looked at a beautiful mosque. We also had some kind of tea (te-terie i think it was called?) that was reeeeeeeeally good. On Saturday, our whole group took a trip to the Singapore Zoo & had a great time. I was surprised with how open the zoo was - a lot of the exhibits were so close you could reach out and touch the animals. Saturday night we hung out at a bar called Wala-Wala in a neat area of town called Holland Village - a nice chill area with a lot of neat bars, restaurants and shops. On Sunday, Shannon and I attempted to make it to a 5 pm mass at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd but as it turns out, the mass wasn't until 6! We stopped in to read the readings for the day and then had to leave later to meet up with some friends for dinner. Hopefully we can get the timing worked out for the next weekend we're in town. At 8 pm, we saw a traveling show called "Journey to the West" - an acrobatic drama with lots of martial arts and cirque du soleil-type performing. It was amazing! Picture-taking was not allowed, but I sneaked a picture without flash of the theater before the show began.
A few of the new foods that I've tried are liver, quail eggs, and stingray. Zafeera (my host mom) cooked liver and quail eggs with some other meat, potatoes, french beans, and rice for lunch on Sunday and while the eggs were good, the liver was not my favorite food. Today for lunch I had stingray and it was really good! It was barbecued on a banana leaf with a spicy sauce - I'd definitely order it again.
In other news, I finished reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult today. Wonderful book - I highly recommend it. Now I can go see the movie :-D.
Tonight we're going to see a comedian perform at the Hard Rock Cafe. If only I didn't have to work at 9 am!
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