Luxurious Dinner

What was special about today was that we finally got to see the luxury dinner, which had been the greatest secret for the past few days. We had dinner in a relatively expensive restaurant, TGI Friday's, with Mr Nicole and all the other chemistry tutors. The restaurant was well decorated and the food looked delicious on the menu. However, the price was a bit scary for us at the beginning. However, when we found out that we were given 12 pounds to spend, everyone felt so relieved that we could order the food we really wanted to eat.

To eat nice food really requires you to be patient. We waited for over an hour to get our food. During the waiting time, we played all the games we could think of and enjoyed ourselves a lot. (Actually we also made a lot of noise there.) Some people were playing the Code game(the 终极密码？Is this its name?), while the group sitting with Liang Xu(who is very lame)played all the random games until everyone was bored. Then the dinner finally came!!!

Though the food was quite nice, some of us could not forget about the money conversion problem. Quote from Tzer Han, "siao ah, the price here is 7 times of that in Malaysia! We have the exact same restaurant there and the prices are exactly the same, but one is in Ringgit and one is in pounds." Then I started to calculate in my mind how much it would cost for me to have my dinner and found that wow, that’s really a luxurious and expensive dinner.

After dinner, we had our usual rush to the bus stop. I think that by now, everyone is finally quite familiar with the public transport system in Southampton. The most fun part also started. People started to tell ghost stories on the way back. It was forty past ten at that time so it was quite dark and was a very good atmosphere to scare people. Screams came from different parts of the group occasionally. On the bus, Liang Xu started to tell more such stories. In order to be scarier, he even started to describe the settings of the stories in Chinese(which he is more fluent in)! Poor Joy screamed a few times because of that. An Shing even said that he would think about whether he is going to take a shower tonight or not.

Anyway, three weeks is really a short time. We are leaving this Saturday. Back in Singapore, we will have to face the stress of schoolwork again(yes, including PW) and try to catch up as much as we can. Hope everyone can cope with that. But on a more exciting note, the 2008 Beijing Olympics will open tomorrow. Yeah, let’s watch the Olympics!!

- Written by Pan Tao and (heavily) edited by Kin Chun