Internet is now up and running

in some rooms at any rate.
We've arrived! The flight was a little bumpy. A head wind of 120 km/hr made for some interesting turbulence! Dr McFarlane met us at the airport with a gaggle of extra-ordinarly friendly and helpful singaporean students. Hot and sticky, we climbed onto an airconditioned bus and made our way to the Prince Georges Residences at NUS. The residences are huge, with just under 3000 individual rooms. We're all located in the same block, split across various floors, and despite some hiccups involving linen and towel misunderstandings, the whole process of moving in was relatively painless.
Our wonderful singaporean guides took us into town to get us all simcards, so we can communicate amongst ourselves while we're here, as well as EZYlink cards, to allow ease in transportation on buses and te MRT.
A breakfast of Prata, a pancake style food, filled with varoius ingredients and dipped in curry was an eye opener to the very different styles of food over here.
The heat was intense and it surprised us alot when on sunday night we awoke to one of the most fantastic thunderstorms. Unlike the ones we get in Sydney, the heavens seemed to be engaging in serious warfare, with amazing light displays with perfectly synchronised cannon as background music.
Monday morning, the sun was shining brightly again and we undertook our first exams.
Diving straight into Classes at the same time, we took a welcome break over lunch to get to know the staff involved in the program and our singaporean comrades a little better. We learned that we will have 9 students accompanying us to Tioman island, as well as a few others in our language and marketing classes.
The style of learning is very involved, and the work load seems daunting, but no one can say that we will leave here uncultured. We came here to learn, and learn we shall! With our first afternoon off tomorrow, we may venture into town to experience the sights and sounds for ourselves. Otherwise, it may be a wait until Friday evening, when we can chill for a while before our tour of the city on saturday.
Hopefully I can get the photo albumn working on this and soon we can have some images of our time.
This is only the beginning and I can tell that life isgoing to be busy, and colourful, but I doubt we'll have time to get bored.