Arrival in Singapore

So in case you all are wondering why my Guangzhou trip has been left out of the blog, it is because A) I was half-dead throughout the 2 days while we were there (probably got an average of 4 hours of sleep a day), and B) China doesn't allow blogging!
I didn't realize this until the very last day. The whole time I was thinking that maybe I have too many pictures uploaded on my blog, and that the internet was just too slow to load because it kept timing out, but then towards the end of the Guangzhou trip I finally realized that blogging isn't allowed in China. You can't access myspace, xanga or any other public blogging website. You can't access Wikipedia either. Supposedly the first thing Michelle tried to do was try to search up Taiwan independence and she said that was blocked too. Haha. I may go back and blog what happened in Guangzhou later on but for now I will just say that we had a long day today. We woke up at 5am and left the Canton Landmark Hotel at 5:30am, reached HK airport, and took a charter flight to Singapore. Lily and I got stuck in a different room again! While most of the students are staying at the Temasek Hall dorms, we are staying at the Visitor's Lodge where the teachers are. We have a living room, a kitchen (no stove but we have a microwave, fridge and toaster), washroom, and 2 single beds. Oh, and of course free wireless since we're living on campus at the National University of Singapore. It is a nice change of scenery here. It's much greener than Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and the tap water is safe to drink! On the bus ride here from the airport it actually reminded me of Vancouver because we passed by a beach, and there were trees and grass everywhere. I can hear the crickets outside as we speak and earlier today I saw a gecko run across the grass. I do however hate the mosquitoes. First day here and I've already been attacked with about 5 mosquito bites (at least). Oh how they love foreign blood. I shall write more tomorrow.