Scott Battye

On the go early, had a class of tai chi and kung fu in the morning. It was still quite hot even at that early hour so the class was cut short. What we learned was interesting though, and really showed how tai chi can be a soothing or even meditative exercise when done right as it really flows from one position to the next. Planned to go shopping with a group that was heading out, but discovered my envelope containing all my documents (except my passport) had gone missing. So I ended up staying...

Day Three: Today was a fairly quiet day. Up at 7 again, had to be up and moving early anyway as we had morning class learning basic Chinese. Suban and Michael were funny as hell associating Chinese pronunciation with English words ("eBay" is 100 in Chinese (yi bai) in case you were wondering). We've been getting strange looks all week from the Chinese students (foreigners yo!) and now we're getting laughs when try to use the local lingo. Ended up going and playing some ping pong for a little...

Woke at about 7. Bed is hard as a rock even with using the blanket as extra padding. Breakfast in cafeteria with Matt, Gabriel and Michael, had another one of those pork rolls, such a strange thing to have for breakfast. Nice though. Headed to the new campus, had a tour of the engineering building and textiles museum. Our tour guide showed us the building for the library, easily the biggest building on campus and would have been at least the size of Rod Laver Arena. Had lunch in the cafeteria...

Woke up about 7am, back was killing me but I didn't really care because it was a decent sleep after being awake for over 40 hours straight. Beds were uncomfortable, Luke and I both agreed that it was ample for the first night but we'll be using the blankets as extra padding tonight (since we won't need them because of how hot it is). Had breakfast at about 8, a pork burger type thing, I didn't catch the exact name of it. It was nice though, had this orange juice thing with it that was overly...

The line at Melbourne got long, it ended up taking us about 40 minutes to get through it and check my baggage in. We had to wait for Tanvi and Andreana who arrived a bit later than the rest of the group. Mum wanted to get a group photo of us before we went through "the doors" (you know the ones, everyone takes photos there), Russell had already gone in to try and save us some seats though so he missed out. The waiting lounge was where the nerves really started to set in. I think the buzz...