20/06/11 Day 3

It is already the second day of our trip in Chennai, we visited Lady Andal school and joined in their classes to experience their daily school life. We visited various part of the school such as the swimming pool and the auditorium. We also attended their assembly which was very different because they had a group of students to lead the others to sing the national anthem and school song as well as the pledge.We found out that they are able to wear their own home clothes to school on their birthday. The place was rudimentary because the floors were covered in sand instead of concrete floors.

We were all broken up into different groups and we all attended different classes, about 6 in a class. The class was very hot and humid because the fan cannot be used, they use blackboards to teach the students and they don't even have a projector.

During the lesson, there were times that they are very noisy but when they have questions or doubts, they would still pay attention and ask the teacher to clear their doubts and they jot down notes every lesson like us.Some students are disrespectful and mischievious because even in front of the teacher, they played a fool among themselves such as throwing chalk at each other.

We feel very fortunate that we are able to study in Singapore because we have a better studying environment with advanced facilities and fans in the classrooms and air-conditioned rooms.

We went shopping today for three hours. We wanted to buy snacks for tonight. However, we were too engrossed in the arcade's fun fair rides which were so much more cooler than Singapore's Timezone. During the trip back to the hotel, we saw a person got banged down by a big lorry. The person fell off the bike and cried but no one stopped to lend a helping hand.

When we arrived the hotel, we got stucked in the lift with 11 people when only 5 people are allowed in a lift. It was miserable because we had difficulty in breathing and after 15 minutes, we are finally rescued by the hotel's staff. Even though it was stuffy in the lift, we felt that it was a good experience.