The City That Never Sleeps
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posted : Saturday, January 09, 2010
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Hello! I'll combine 2 days into 1 post cos I doubt there would be much time to post after sch reopens ):

Days 7&8

Morning of day 7 was unbelievably cold D: LOL Hahahah there was this whole bunch of mist when we spoke (x Jenny and Chiu were sick D: Jenny even vomited 7 times. Probably cos of Mexican food on day 6 X:

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A picture of our motel.

Byebye San Francisco. HELLO Los Angeles! :D

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Super famous hot dog shop in L.A.. There're long queues everytime we pass by the stall.

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Went to Farmer's Market for lunch. LOL the guide told us there's lotsa food to choose from... NOT (x Singapore's hawker centres rock! :D

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WOO! Pressed the coin. Mwahahah I love those press-the-coin thing machines. So fun! :D They are all over the place in U.S.. Wonder why Singapore doesn't have these machines ): Imagine a Merlion or even Esplanade on coins woo!

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L.A.'s acting school. It's a public school so it's 100% funded by the gvt. Cool eh?

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A mural of some of the notable and famous people in the world on the walls of the abovementioned acting school.

Hollywood and L.A.'s like 2 different cities. Hollywood is really well-kept, even the trees and beautiful flowers lining the street are imported :O

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This is Hollywood Bowl, a natural amphitheatre in Hollywood! :D Many famous people had performed there previously, including Luciano Pavarotti! :D

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HELLO HOLLYWOOD! :D

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Tiles featuring famous people from the entertainment industry on the streets of Hollywood. The stars actually have to pay for their names to be carved in a star on the tiles. The money goes into maintaining and building facilities in Hollywood. Hahahah there's also a Mickey Mouse tile too. So cute (x

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Michael Jackson's alive? :O

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In a world where Snoopy meets Superman (x

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Woo yes this is Kodak Theatre, where they host the Academy Awards :D

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After touring the streets of L.A., we went for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. The food there was fantastic :D MeiQi was like "Whoa this restaurant looks familiar. I think I came here with my family the last time." Woo fated.

Oh yea speaking of MeiQi, I never knew Dai Yang Tian lives in MeiQi's semi-d O.O LOL if I'm not wrong, i周刊 even featured her house before. So cool! :D

-----end of day 7-----

We woke up at around 5.30 a.m. on day 8. We're so deprived of sleep lor ):

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A ride in an American school bus to Wilson High :D

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They were really nice to make welcome signs for us (: Haha the school name's wrong though (x

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A typical scene in class. The students don't wear school uniforms and the dress code isn't strictly imposed.

Wilson High took a different approach from the other schools. We were attached to buddies in other schools, who led us around the school compound. However, in Wilson High, we were given a map of the school and separated into groups of 4-5. Each group was given a timetable and we were supposed to go to classrooms where the various lessons were held ourselves (: Kinda intimidating but it was pretty fun to get a taste of the U.S. student life (:

Our buddies joined us during lunch and we chatted for a bit. LOL "Sorry we don't know how to speak Singaporean." or "Is Singapore in China?"

After lunch, we gathered in the den for a series of performances that the students prepared.

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School band

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Drama troupe

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The cheerleaders

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Choir! Haha I was kinda sad at first since I didn't get to go for a choir lesson. So I was really happy when there was a choir performance (:

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Modern Dance

We prepared performances for the U.S. students too!

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Hahahah "I want nobody nobody but you!"

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扯铃 performance. Jenny's really pro :D

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It was nearly 3p.m. when the school visit ended. We had to rush like mad to the art museum that closed at 6p.m., and the heavy traffic made things worse X:

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Beautiful sunset (:

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We actually tried to tour the museum but there was barely enough time plus the galleries were pretty far away from each other. So we gave up after 1/2 an hour and started taking photos of the breathtaking scenery.

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OK I can't really remember what we had for dinner. Malay food? err idk. Yay days 7 and 8 are finally done (: Enjoy the remaining days of the holidays everyone! :D