Day 32 – A meal we had before we left

Today was kind of a special day. In the morning, the guys woke up pretty early for a friendly basketball match with the local students which was held at the courts behind the hostel. The match starts at around 12.30pm, and so when we were there, most of the courts were already used by the students and so the local student leaders had to book the court in advance.

When we were there, the guys started to do their warm ups, while we watch the local students play. The local students were really tall and it seems that they were frequent players because most of them seem skilled. Well when the match begins, our guys did a good job by scoring the first score, however the local students were really strong too, the made an immediate score right after us. But after around ½ hour of play, our guys seemed to be out of breathe but the local students were still standing strong as they have many sub players while we only had one. Well, even though at the end of the match our guys lost by a few points, they played really well and they established good sportsmanship. Guys we are proud of you! ^^
Edwards' way of warming up ^^

The guys warming up

Our guys players

Both the team players

Discussing their strategies




After the match, all of us headed back to the hostel to have a rest and get ourselves prepared for the farewell dinner in the night. We were told to leave the hostel at around 4 plus 5 as our meeting time was 5.30pm at Walmart. Man, you should see how everyone was preparing themselves for this dinner. All of the guys dressed themselves up with long sleeves shirts and jeans, as for the girls some were wearing dresses while others wore jeans. Since it was a farewell dinner, every one decided to dress up a little to make this event an even more memorable one.

It was roughly around 7pm when we started our dinner, we had this buffet style kind of dinner which was rather similar to Singapore’s Marche, but over here the only difference was that there would be people go around table with carts of food and serve them to your table.
Group E ^^

Our Girls

The guys

All of us with the local students ^^

Everyone including the ISCT

Group E !!


Reflection:

It seems that after today we are only left with 2 more days before we returned back to SG. It is kind of a mixed feeling over here, its true that we would miss our families and friends over in SG. But the thing is, we would also miss our friends over here in China. Well, it was not as if we will not meet again, but I guess everyone doesn’t likes to bid goodbye to anyone. During the farewell dinner, even though the atmosphere was really nice and everyone is enjoying themselves, you could sense that there is still a little sadness in the air. The reason for it, I guess everyone should be sure of and that is, everyone cant bear to leave anyone.