Day 38

Well Saturday was so crazy I went to pretty much every where in Singapore kind of. I started out in Bedok which is about an hour away on the train from where I am staying. Jubi started to come with me but she is still under the weather so I just went out with one of the girl's from orientation. The day started out with getting breakfast which was boiled eggs, prata and kuay. The eggs are boiled but are soupy so I was supposed to drink it. This was the weirdest thing ever like it tasted not too bad because you put soy sauce and pepper in it but the texture was more slimy than oysters and I could not get past it. The prata is toast and like a sort of jelly I believe and then the kuay is an Indian bread kinda looks similar to naan. A curry was given with it which of course was a little spicy for me but when i dipped it in sugar as well it was delicious! The uncle of the restaurant gave us the royal treatment and cracked the boiled eggs for us. Yvonne told me normally you have to do it yourself but for some reason he wanted to do it for us. We had many instances where uncles wanted to be nice to me it kept the day interesting. After this I went back to Yvonne's HDB flat which is similar to our studios but no where near as nice. It was nice to go there because Yvonne shared with me her photos from when she was younger and I met her grandmother. After that we went to a wet market. It is called a wet market because there is fresh fish here and like fresh meat and chicken. There are stands that are for the malaysians because they have certain was their food needs to be prepared than how we have our food prepared. Then we went and had lunch and I tried bean curd. This is a dessert and is done two different ways, one way is putting the dessert in a sugar syrup which was not my favorite. They have a new way that makes the bean curd sweeter, this is similar to tapioca I believe. I also had some sticky rice with something on top but I forget but that was really good and I had a drink made with sugar cane. While we were eating one of the uncles at the hawker centre came up and started talking to Yvonne and had her translate what he was saying to me. She just kept laughing because this normally does not happen and she thinks it is because the area we were in not to many ang mo (white skinned) people are in the area. On the way back to the train from lunch another uncle was trying to give his corgi to me for free. I was so confused because I was not sure if he was serious or not and I wanted to cry because he was like I cannot feed my dog anymore and I need someone to take it home. After this we headed to the haw par villa. This is a an not run by the government and is owned by two brothers created in 1937. There are statues everywhere and apparently the people here believe the statues come to life at night because of the spirit in the area. Of course I was told this while I was entering the place so I kept thinking the statues were moving even though it was during the middle of the day. I learned so much while I was there it was a very cool experience! Then we went to the tea art near Chinatown. On the way there we passed the wedding photo places. Here couples spend thousands of dollars to take pictures in different dresses. Yvonne said some couples would rather have this than a dinner at their reception. The tea art was so much fun, the auntie showed us the proper way to drink and make the tea which was cool because this is normally in a lesson that they provide for like thirty dollars or something like that. For some reason we kept getting the royal treatment where ever we went it was funny. I told Yvonne that whenever she wanted the royal treatment she should have me come with so that she can get the treatment too. It was so nice to talk to someone else and experience their culture and she is willing to take me out soon again so I am looking forward to it. Today at work was intense. I was so frustrated all day due to being treated like a baby and someone that has never been in the kitchen. The person that we had watching out for us is normally not in charge of us and he decided that we needed to learn how to wrap things in seran wrap and how to put pastry cream in a bag. He is lazy and pulls us away from what we are doing so that he does not have to either clean or put away something. It was a very stressful day and tomorrow he is still in charge of us and then I am by myself on Saturday with him so hopefully it will not be too bad! The other team members kept laughing at me whenever I said I was going to this location and I guess they could really tell I was pissed today because everytime I saw them they always had a smirk come on. This department I am learning patience and working with people you cannot stand :). Above are some of the pictures from my day out around the town enjoy :D.