Wednesday 10th

This morning there was no flag raising, because it was raining, so we got a bit of a sleep in, and just went straight to our sabbaticals. In the Model ASEAN Summit (the sabbatical being done by Ben, Aidan, Ethan and myself), things finally started getting really interesting (well, for Ethan and I at least :P). Our buddy gave us some notes that we could pass around our room to the different 'countries'. We took full advantage of this, sending notes to various countries, including cheering on Thailand, and telling Myanmar not to be so mean. We even asked to officially become part of the ASEAN Summit, but were declined because Australia isn't actually part of South-East Asia. We thought that this was unfair, so the only conclusion we could come to was to declare war against all 10 countries in the summit. However, all this was done in good spirit, and we were even asked to come and discuss our reasoning for declaring war, in the press conference. After our sabbaticals, we, with the Japanese and Hong Kong students, headed to Little India. It was nothing that we expected, and found it boring and kind of creepy. Although most people enjoyed the Henna tattoos they got. After wandering around Little India, we headed to the Night Safari, which everyone had been looking forward to. On the way, the group had been discussing how Evan and Ethan had picked up the Singaporean accent quite well, and how funny it was. Through this, somehow, we got back to an American accent which I had used the previous day at Sentosa Island. This then made Evan and myself walk around for most of the night in an American accent. However, Evan went that little bit further, by copying what a random American woman had said to Damon on the weekend, "Excuse me, you're beautiful!", and saying it to random people (primarily women) all night. Whilst all this was happening, there was a performance with men in traditional outfits, dancing with fire and doing various tricks. Diane and Courtney enjoyed this because the men had, quote "awesome abs". Everyone then got on the tram ride around the night safari, seeing all of the many animals. Poor Damon got stuck sitting next to Evan and myself, doing American accents, on a tram behind most of the group (only Keenan, Evan, Damon, Ooi, Jarret and myself were in the carriage behind the others). The animals were really cool and we were even able to see some close up which was really good. Once the tram ride had ended, we went straight to the animal show. The host of the show was quite nice, and introduced herself in various languages, asking where people in the audience were from. Of course I raised my hand for each country said (so I am now Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Australian, from what I can remember), and of course when she asked about Australians in the audience, what did the students from The Heights do? We screamed and cheered at the top of our lungs :P. There were lots of different animals, some who wouldn't go back inside, but all were really cute and could have probably killed us :P. There was an act where they pretended that they lost an animal in and it ends up being a snake (called Maggie) who is hidden in a trap door in the audience. I hate snakes, but actually wanted to go up on stage and hold it, but another Australian (not involved with us) got chosen. That was the end of the night, and we headed back to the boarding school. With only a few days to go, we are all getting used to the heat, and know where to go around the school and the boarding school. Everyone is having a great time discovering this amazing country :)