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Today is my 8th day at Xiamen. Everything is beginning to settle down more or less. The first few days here was hectic, we travelled to many places just to get our visa done. Though Xiamen is only a tiny part of China, getting from one place to another is really time consuming. Luckily, the cab fare here is cheaper than S'pore. It's only 8RMB (=$1.70) when you board the cab and able to travel very far without the meter moving at all. With such a cheap cab fare, we both took cab to wherever we want to go. :D

I am starting to adapt to this place. The food here is very salty, and the chinese terms that the people here speak is very different from us. Because we know how to speak english, we started to translate for some foreigners since they don't know how to speak or understand chinese at all. We happened to know two Cambodian students on our way to school from the airport, and they're actually government officials in their country who were awarded schlorships to further their studies. They even cooked for us their local dishes on our second night here.

The hostel we're living in is mainly for overseas students, and we can see part of the sea from our windows. The summer here is almost similar as S'pore, just that it's much drier over here and that makes my lips cracked on the first few days. There aren't many entertainments over here. Me and Peiching were getting bored, we even went to sing ktv yesterday just to pass time. Anyway, coming to this country makes me feel that everything in S'pore is so expensive. The classic french manicure over here is only S$10, and they're using O.P.I brand okay!