After 30 hours of travel, I arrived in Singapore last night. I’m still getting used to the time (it’s about 3 AM here and I just woke up a few hours ago!) but everything has been going great so far.  The campus is beautiful- everything is brand new and there are multiple new buildings being constructed nearby.  The building I’m living in opened just a few days ago so my cohort will be the first people to live here.  I live in a a 6 person apartment, though we all have single rooms, in a 21 story building with a nice view of the city from the top.  I’ve only met one of roommates so far but the rest should be arriving soon.

Traveling here was hectic as expected.  I flew from New York to Tokyo on a 13 hour flight, had a few hours in the Tokyo airport, and then flew 7 hours to Singapore.  Apparently the Japanese are a lot more interested in visiting America than Americans are in visiting Japan as I was the only non-Japanese person on the whole flight.

Modern planes are getting nicer and nicer.  I had a total of 3 meals, and a personal flat screen TV with on demand movies, TV shows, and even video games.  I divided my time between ipod, video games – a racing game, tetris, and various puzzle games, reading – I finally got around the Dan Brown’s newish book, The Lost Symbol,  and movies – 3:10 to Yuma which was fantastic.  I threw in a few hours of sleep here and there too, but not nearly enough.

Today, I was able to a little bit of exploring around campus and the city but I’ll touch on those more in later posts once I know I get a better feel for the area.

Overall, I hope to use this blog for two main purposes- First, to let friends and family see what I’ve been up to.  And second, to discuss various interesting things I come across.  I hope that the second purpose will be enough to keep the blog interesting enough so that even people I don’t know might still read my posts.

My plans are to write about some of the following topics:
-Culture
-Food
-Beer
-That really cool Boat Building
-Travels in Southeast Asia
-School
-Weird laws
-Things I’m doing
-Things I’m thinking

But I’ll just play it as it goes and blog whenever I feel I have something interesting to share.  Before I go, here are some pictures of my room, building, and area:

My building is the tall one at the top right

Location: Singapore